Tag: Solstice

  • Create a Kill – Summoned to Rise

    Create a Kill – Summoned to Rise

    Being a fan of the Thrash genre since the tender young age of 12 (I’m now 45) I have been fortunate enough to hear and witness the birth of some of the greatest Thrash music known to man. For some time it seems like the genre which I have hung my hat on as my…

  • The Wounded Kings – Consolamentum

    The Wounded Kings – Consolamentum

    By Gruesome Greg Album number four from this female-fronted doom troop can be pretty much divided into two categories: the 10-minute epics and the two-minute interludes, of which there are three of each, along with one song that’s only six minutes long. We get started with “Gnosis,” which happens to be the longest selection, spanning…

  • The guitar player from Solstice and the bass player from Pagan Altar log on to a board. Hilarity ensues!

    Take this posting about the new Pagan Altar/Mirror of Deception split 7″, for instance, in which PA bassist Manny Cooke reveals that the song his band contributes is a guide track–not the full lineup, just Al & Terry Jones with a drum machine. What happens next can only be described as a flame war of…