Asteroid – III
It’s been a while since Asteroid last made contact with earth. The Swedish heavy-rock trio was fairly active in the aughts, but had not…
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Watchtower – Concepts Of Math: Book One
Watchtower have a pretty legendary legacy among a niche group of metalheads. To just call their music “thrash metal” and move on is a…
Anciients – Voice of the Void
Album number two from Anciients, Vancouver’s answer to Neurosis, comes roughly three-and-a-half years after their breakout debut, Heart of Oak. So it’s been a…
Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovel – Keep it Greasy
Some bands simply worship the 70’s, but this outfit looks like they stumbled out of a dingy London pub back in ’72. (The one…
Mike Doughty – Haughty Melodic (reissue)
I must preface this review by saying that I have been a Mike Doughty fan for an incredibly long time. I first became a…
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Skeleton Tree
Since he first broke free of the Birthday Party in 1984 and picked up with the Bad Seeds, Nick Cave has developed and honed an…
Thundermother – Road Fever
I first became aware of the existence of the splendidly-named Thundermother in the pages of the hallowed Iron Fist magazine. It was obvious that…
Saint Vitus – Live Vol 2
Normally, it wouldn’t be all that unusual to see a band announce a new tour in support of a live album, but for Saint…
Crobot – Welcome to Fat City
Does mainstream hard rock even still exist? It seems you hardly hear anything new on the radio nowadays—mind you, I stopped listening to radio…
Lesbian – Hallucinogenisis
This Seattle post-sludge/black-metal outfit seemingly sees its shadow every three years, releasing albums in ’07, 2010, 2013 and now this, their fourth full-length, in…