Tag: USA

  • Fashion Bomb: Visions of the Lifted Veil

    “Visions of the Lifted Veil” is the sophomore album from Fashion Bomb. The cover art displays the band looking water-drowned gothic in front of a rainy post apocalyptic Chicago background. Their sound isn’t very gothic sounding. The closest they really get is some of the guitar sounds remind me a lot of Marilyn Manson.

  • The Year Of Our Lord: Dead To You

    Ever hear of The Year Of Our Lord? Kudos if you have, because they were damn good. Some readers might have caught their 1999 EP or the 2002 self-titled release From Willowtip . I hadn’t heard any of their music until recently but I’m glad the Dead To You compilation showed up on my doorstep…

  • Black Breath: Razor to Oblivion

    Black Breath is the kind of metal that’s devoid of any pretension whatsoever, just five scruffy guys hunkering down and coming up with some of the most bracing, rewarding circa-1985 retro metal you’ll hear these days.

  • Egypt: s/t

    A lost classic no longer, this hidden gem deserves to be heard!

  • The Sign of The Southern Cross: …Of Mountains And Moonshine

    The biggest surprise in regards to mountain boys The Sign Of The Southern Cross (SOTSC) and latest effort …Of Mountains And Moonshine is probably its absolute absence of surprise.

  • Shrinebuilder: Shrinebuilder

    With a roster of talent that is hard to match, Shrinebuilder’s Shrinebuilder is an impressive debut.

  • Ancestors: Of Sound Mind

    Ancestors can’t decide whether to join the noodly prog rock or stoner doom circles, and has left a foot in both camps, coming off like Dream Theater on ditch weed.

  • Trouble: Nowhere Near Endtime

    “We’ve heard some people ask why did you pick Kory Clarke, because he’s not a doom metal singer or he doesn’t sound anything like Eric, but we weren’t particularly looking for someone to sound just like Eric, and we weren’t necessarily looking for someone who was just a doom metal singer either. And we were…

  • A Storm of Light: Forgive Us Our Trespasses

    Forgive Us Our Trespasses is not only a lumbering, crushing sonic tour of a world without us, it’s also a cutting and unsubtle condemnation of humanity’s indifference to its own habitats.

  • Alice In Chains: Black Gives Way To Blue

    To put more flesh on that connective tissue, great care seems to have been taken by Cantrell & co. to draw a hard line connecting the AIC of old with that of Black Gives Way To Blue.