Older. Heavier. No apologies.
I can’t pretend to list all the myriad albums that are released every week. Each week there are albums I am interested in checking out, I share those here. This week is one I have been looking forward to for months. And I think it would have resulted in my album of the year, except…
Slave Machine isn’t an album from a band that has something to prove. Nervosa doesn’t feel the need to prove anything to anyone. They know they kick ass. They know that they are incredible musicians and songwriters. They’ve been at it for well over a decade. They are established, vital, and on Slave Machine, they…
These last few weeks have really been a bit of whiplash. A couple of weeks ago, we had six big releases (all dwarfed by Neurosis), then last week, only one. This week, we are back to another six notable releases. Again, far more albums were released, these are just the ones that jumped out at…
Exodus is an institution. They’ve been around for decades and have been instrumental in the development and evolution of American thrash metal. Gary Holt is a riff master supreme. There is a reason he was tapped to replace Jeff Hanneman in Slayer due to his illness and untimely passing. But, while they are an essential…
After the complete overwhelm that was last week, this week decided to go easy on me. Of course, there were more albums that came out, but only one that was on my radar and something I wanted to check out. Winterfylleth — The Unyielding Season Over the last decade, black metal has emerged as one…
Steve Von Till’s tortured screams rip open the wound we had forgotten we had, laying bare the truths we tried to hide. But there is no healing in hiding. No reconciliation in refusing to see the ugliness of our reality. And, as Neurosis has done time and again, they remind us that the harsh light…
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Visceral. That is one hell of a word. It just works. So well. And once you understand the etymology of it, it hits even harder. Viscera. Organs. You know, those wet things that are sloshing around inside of you. Guts. Lamb of God writes music I can only describe as visceral. It hits you in…
Every week, I check out the new releases. Some weeks, there aren’t any that interest me. Some weeks, there are too many. Here are the notable entries from this past week. As March 20th approached, there were two big releases I was looking forward to: new albums from Exodus and Gaerea. By the end of…
Moments. Life is made up of a series of moments. A few are profound. Most are more mundane. But it is the combination and culmination of those moments, mundane and profound, that make up who we are. How we think, feel, what we believe. We anticipate the big ones. We see them coming. Often, we…
I’ve been a metalhead for decades now. I’d always leaned toward heavier rock, but as I made my way through my twenties, and navigated major life changes and the insanity of medical school, heavier music became one of those key coping strategies. And while my heart remained rooted in progressive music, thanks to a lifelong…