Rage and Frustration
Heavy Metal Reviews & Interviews
Poison Blood – Poison Blood
Poison Blood has my full attention. This debut album by the North Carolina duo is raw like an open wound, dark like a moonless night, unclean like an American Civil War hospital, and vicious like a thirsty vampire.
Five of the Eyes – The Venus Transit
You have to love a talented band that believes in itself and the music that they play.
Gravesite – Neverending Trail of Skulls
Gravesite, with their much more nuanced approach are maybe more comparable to a lich from Dungeons and Dragons fame. These creatures were evil sorcerers who extended their life even past death, basically intelligent, malevolent, animated corpses with great power.
Grande Royale – Breaking News
If you are filled with the urge to just rock out in a pickup truck to some honest to goodness straight forward rock with your lady beside you on the middle seat, then this is definitely worth buying.
Cloud Rat/Disrotted Split
Where in my top five will this one fall?
Cloud Rat/Moloch Split
The split is a cohesive whole, sort of different respective takes on darkness and futility.
Broken Hope – Mutilated and Assimilated (Review and Interview)
There is a malicious streak that shows forth here in ominous riffs, there in embedded grind, and yet again in ambient samples, which all serve to drag the listener by their exposed entrails into the abyss that is this album.
Leprous – Malina
According to their press release, the album took four times as long
for them to make as previous records did, but the results never sound belabored. Indeed, the
final product is well worth the effort.
Candle – Demo 2016 (Review and Interview)
See that guy? The one who looks a little dangerous? That is the personification of Candle.
Bison – You Are Not The Ocean You Are The Patient (Review and Interview)
Bison take rage and violence and make it atmospheric and calming. They take beauty and make it viscerally deadly.
NYN – Entropy: Of Chaos and Salt
From the time the album starts to the time it finishes you are bombarded with the sounds of what can be described as a chaos that meshes really well together.
Five Thoughts on The Melvins Live
Rage and Frustration Heavy Metal Reviews & Interviews Band - The Melvins Country of Origin - USA Venue - The Pyramid Scheme Date - July 26, 2017 Introduction/Personal History The Melvins are one of those bands I mostly missed over the years. I'm positive...
Full Scale Riot Interview
An interview with Full Scale Riot.
Battle Raider – Battle Raider
Just looking at the promo photo and album cover gives you a good idea how these guys are going to sound. They look like the 1980’s.
Herida Profunda Profile and Interview
The quartet, split between Poland and the UK, play the kind of grind that I love. That is, they get all in your face and scream their leftist politics, spittle flying.
Eruption – Cloaks of Oblivion (Review and Interview)
Clearly, the old school Bay area thrash sound is not played out though, as the band uses waves of well placed riffs to makes an older sound seem both current and traditional.
Time Walk – Beyond Eternity’s Grasp
It’s not everyday that you stumble onto something that growls of war, conquest, and death.
The Minerva Conduct – The Minerva Conduct
This, my good friends, is Prog leaning Metal at its finest.
Venomous Maximus – No Warning
Repeated distorted low riffs, combined with varying hard rock grooves make for a great setting of a void.
An Evening With Khemmis (Interview)
A while back, I personally got to sit down with a great band out of Denver, Colorado called Khemmis.
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