Tag: review
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Walrus – Family Hangover LP
When one considers the debut LP from Walrus, Family Hangover, the first stumbling block which comes up is where the music came from. As one listens, it quickly becomes easy to pick out little bits of ideas which were obviously originally the work of artists who initially inspired the band and, because those stylistic breadcrumbs…
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Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard / Slomatics – Totem
You gotta love Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard. It’s like someone fired up a Random Doom Metal Name Generator, gave it a few spins, then picked their two favourites. What’s also cool about this band is that they sing in Welsh, although one of the titles of their two contributions to this split LP with UK…
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Apostle of Solitude – From Gold to Ash
I rarely, if ever, have been disappointed by Apostle of Solitude. The veteran Indiana doomsters have been at it for more than decade now, and their last three full-lengths have all found favour in my books. (“December Drives Me to Tears” is one of my all-time favourite doom tunes.) These guys tend to be gloomier…
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Mammoth Grinder – Cosmic Crypt
2018 is shaping up to have some epic releases within the metal world. For some reason Mammoth Grinder wasn’t on my radar, but I’m glad I found it. Cosmic Crypt will be released on January 26th via Relapse Records; it’s the bands first release in five years, and it’s a good one. Going into the…
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Book reviews by Steve Earles: Everybody Lies
Everybody Lies: What The Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are By Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Foreword by Steven Pinker It’s hard to get your head around the fact that on any given day the human race searching the internet amasses eight trillion gigabytes of data! Seth Stephens-Davidowitz is a Harvard-trained economist and worked as a…
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Reducers SF – Essentials (4-LP set)
Looking back, it’s pretty incredible how fertile punk’s creative soil was in the Nineties. Sure – everyone knows the mid-Nineties as being the period which broke punk into the mainstream pop punk and made bands like Lagwagon, Propagandhi, Green Day, NOFX, Offspring (I’ve written this list out several times before) and innumerable others household names…
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Philip H. Anselmo & The Illegals – Choosing Mental Illness As A Virtue
Philip H. Anselmo & The Illegals are back, and better than ever. Following up the group’s initial offering in 2013, Walk Through Exits Only, they prepare to release their second album on January 26th entitled Choosing Mental Illness As A Virtue via Housecore Records. With a heavy new line up of musicians including Stephen Taylor…
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Piledriver live in Toronto, NYE 2017
The Exalted Piledriver / Maldita @ Coalition, Toronto on December 31st 2017 A metal new year! That’s what every metalhead dreams of for December 31st. The only real metal party in Toronto to tell 2017 to fuck off is The Exalted Piledriver at the Coalition. The temperatures are the lowest in Canada’s most populous city…
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Dead Kennedys – Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables LP
How does one qualify an album which is almost universally considered a lynchpin release for the musical genre it occupies and has incited a seemingly endless stream of arguments and upheaval on personal, political and social levels IN ADDITION TO causing a host of legal battles among the men responsible for creating and releasing it?…
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The Good The Bad and The Zugly – Misanthropical House
I’ll admit that the reason I listened to this Norwegian outfit was because of their name—Clint Eastwood is my spirit bear. But if you ever wished Kverlertak had somewhat intelligible English vocals, or that The Hellacopters had somewhat unintelligible sludge-metal vocals, then you’d probably dig this 31-minute debut. Opening track “H-Bomb” hits you like a…