Demiser – Slave to the Scythe review
I generally avoid metal music videos. Far too often they are overly self-serious repetitions of the same scary/angry/edgy slapstick and ultimately only serve to remind you that metal bands don’t…
I generally avoid metal music videos. Far too often they are overly self-serious repetitions of the same scary/angry/edgy slapstick and ultimately only serve to remind you that metal bands don’t…
“I know what you’re thinking.” Austria’s black metal scene is full of quality bands and a phenomenal variety of dark and brutal soundscapes, but in this reviewer’s humble opinion there…
I have a complicated relationship with Worm WitchOn the one hand, I was overwhelmed by her second performance The heaven that dwells within us. I still play it after five…
At some point I was labeled as the “puke guy” of this website and I can’t say that it bothers me. The word “puke” in a band name says absolutely…
I love black metal – especially when it’s imbued with an atmosphere that oscillates between heroic highs and guttural lows. But finding quality records with dynamic songs that touch me…
There are bands you want to love and you know you knowledge—have a great album inside them that they…consistently fail to deliver. If you could just grab them by the…
Some bands have history. Freezing rain has Tradition. Core members Yantit and M. Roth have been terrorizing Germany for nearly 30 years, managing to get two of their albums restricted…
As an English teacher in an American high school, it’s a crime not to teach Edgar Allan Poe. The guy needs no introduction, his influence is felt in literature and…
A celestial body is at aphelion when it is at the point in its orbit where it is farthest from the sun. My god, that sounds so beautiful right now.…