Quaking Aspens and Honey Daze Reviewed
August 8, 2025
Quaking Aspens – Flume
The spells are no longer being used, or there are too few who know how they go. Most of modern entertainment is either too short, demanding that you pay for additional tickets to endless sequels, or needlessly long, taking three hours before…
Friendship Commanders – MELT
There are plenty of tricks that rock bands can pull out of their bags. There are plenty of ways to entertain an audience. Some don’t even involve actually playing music. There are those who can merely rely on having their drums spin in…
Dark Phantom and Nordstahl Reviewed
July 20, 2025
Dark Phantom – Nation of Dogs
Yes, yes, successful heavy metal bands, very often, get by in the world by creating a mythology around themselves. It’s a lore that fans can share among themselves. They contain sounds and symbols that unify them all in a…
Huron Lines and Daphne Reviewed
June 12, 2025
Huron Lines – No Way Out
In the future, I’m sure, governments of really wealthy states will set aside a fund for the evil geniuses of the country. They’ll make sure that each time the budget is drawn up, there’s enough money in it. And they’ll make sure that…
Taleen Kali and Mad Kelly Reviewed
June 11, 2025
Taleen Kali – Aepex
For the most part, the great songwriters of old were workers in song. They provided just as much as they were tasked with delivering, cared about deadlines, and were keen to never antagonise their patrons, or the people who only got to hear the…
Ded En - “The Gala” Review
June 7, 2025
We might be living in the post-post-metal era and not even know it, or be able to admit it to ourselves just yet. Heavy metal has fulfilled its potential a long time ago. The crates are all filled up, the awards are on the wall, and even your grandma throws up the devil…
YYYY - “ima” Review
May 15, 2025
Modern music is either firmly rooted to the place in which it was conceived, or it’s designed to trick you into thinking it was made somewhere else. These are the only two options, and you can tell a lot about what values the music’s meant to represent by the choice that…
Top 10 Songs by Linkin Park
April 29, 2025
Linkin Park was the biggest band of the early 2000s. The group achieved that by cutting the difference between angry nu metal, trendy hip hop and forward-thinking production and marketing techniques. Linkin Park is one of the biggest rock bands of all time.
The…
Slayer Albums Ranked
April 21, 2025
Slayer was one of the last heavy metal bands capable of terrorising conservative circles, all while selling a lot of records. They also were thrash and speed metal pioneers and their albums rank as some of the best in the genre.
It’s hard not to be impressed by…