Review: Melvins 1983 – “Working With God” February 26, 2021 Melvins 1983, for those of you just joining the nearly 40-year-long narrative, is the latest iteration of everyone’s favorite Gods of Thunder, marching toward… Continue Reading
Review: The Glad Husbands – “Safe Places” December 20, 2019 Everything that’s muddy-minded about Safe Places – the new LP from Italian mathcore trio The Glad Husbands, out four days ago on CD and… Continue Reading
Concert Review: Tool (2019) November 9, 2019 The prog-metal quartet Tool exudes context, from its rich LPs, full of epic songs and epic phrasings, to its historiography as a band, which… Continue Reading
Review: Fox Medicine – “Procedures Mystique” November 8, 2019 No less an authority on sludge and the seedy intersection of punk and metal than Melvins/Tool board-helmer Toshi Kasai recently described Portland duo Fox… Continue Reading
Review: Horehound – “Weight” EP October 3, 2019 Fifty words on Weight. Well, not counting those. Pittsburgh champions of dirgy doom-metal follow 2018’s Holocene with a two-song gem. (Sorry, vinyl’s sold out.)… Continue Reading
Review: PAK – “Bestial” May 8, 2019 I once wrote that Ron Anderson is the best kind of madman. Today, with Bestial, his trio PAK’s fourth LP, he again proves he’s… Continue Reading
Review: The Elephant Parallax – “Loam and Sky” May 8, 2018 There are two epic songs battling for your attention on Loam and Sky, the new EP from The Elephant Parallax out Friday, and either could… Continue Reading
