The first word I'm gonna use here is the following: behold. This record isn't for the faint-hearted listener that expects to be taken onto a simplistic journey of half-hazard riffage that only holds any water for the living heck of putting wallets down on the table. This ethereal and particularly...

This sophomore release of DESERT SIN's is satisfactory, albeit lacking the significant oomph necessary to surpass this type of categorization. Granted, the drumming is energized, the vocalist holds his own, the bassist is particularly apeshit with skill, and the soloist does throw in some cool progressive parts, but it feels...

Y'know, that moment when you put on a death metal album from this brand new, up-and-coming band you're pretty much convinced will sound like all the others, and you simply end up on your ass, eyes wide, breath catching in your throat, and wondering how you could possibly be that...

Well, what to say, LANDMINE MARATHON is in top fucking shape. ''Gallows'' is a raging fuckin' album with tons of mighty grooves to boot, a mean collection of thrashy riffs, some out of control vocals from the particularly admirable chick up front, and drumming that's bound to turn a couple...

This album is definitely one complex piece of work in more ways than one, and it's not necessarily because the material at hand is abstract; it's mainly due to how grand the musicianship can get, versus how completely bloody squashed it is by the oddball flaws of the album sticking...

Personally, I would think that the modernized, mechanical, and far from organic industrial sounds simply don't mesh well with the ancient, nature-worshipping, basic-of-all-primality black metal. I like both genres for different reasons, but they seem to be the anti-thesis of each other on so many levels, it seems superposing both...