Posts Tagged ‘Relapse Records’
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › M on Friday, August 3rd, 2012
I gotta hand it to Relapse – Results is one hell of a cut-throat release in terms of deathgrind songwriting. It’s experimental, without departing from the outlines of what defines this genre as the game-changer of extreme metal throughout the ages; still, it dares go into whatever direction it damned well sees fit, and I’ve […]
Tags: 2012, Murder Construct, Noch, Relapse Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › D on Tuesday, June 19th, 2012
So after a couple of line up juggling, transitional post Destroy the Opposition albums in Stop at Nothing and War of Attrition, American stalwarts Dying Fetus trimmed down to a three piece for 2009s Descend into Depravity with impressive results. And now finally, John Gallagher has put together two album with the same line up […]
Tags: 2012, Dying Fetus, E.Thomas, Relapse Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › C on Monday, April 9th, 2012
There she stands in the darkness, flecks of her golden hair illuminated by candle flicker and lightning flash. The silhouette of a white nightgown spills to her bare feet on the wooden floor. A gold crucifix spins lightly from the beaded chain around her neck, clinking softly. The knife she clutches glints maliciously. You see […]
Tags: 2012, Christian Mistress, Heavy Metal, Jodi Michael, Relapse Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Monday, March 26th, 2012
After six long years, Spawn of Possession are back to toss their hat into the tech-death ring with their third full-length – Incurso. The band has gone through a lineup change since the last album, with drummer Dennis Rondum trading in his sticks for a microphone, and Obscura’s Christian Munzner taking over on guitars. Right […]
Tags: 2012, Kevin Ellis, Relapse Records, Review, Spawn of Possession, Tech-Death
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › L on Monday, February 20th, 2012
So the band Liberteer came to my attention after reviewing the recent Beaten to Death album, a grindcore album that was grindcore with a difference, and so is the debut album from Liberteer. Comprised of Matt Widener, the grindcore lineage is certainly here considering Widener’s involvement in the likes of Cretin, Citizen, Exhumed and The […]
Tags: 2012, E.Thomas, Grindcore, Liberteer, Relapse Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › R on Monday, February 20th, 2012
It’s tough to be a metal band in 2012. Not only does one have to contend with piracy, a shrinking music industry, and a crowded pond filled with the scum of other metal bands, but one has to be able to stand out musically. Some bands take the safe route and pay tribute to their […]
Tags: 2012, Relapse Records, Review, Revocation, thrash metal, Travis Bolek
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › E on Wednesday, January 11th, 2012
When an album cover depicts four long haired zombies devouring the flesh of the dead from the grave, I expect it to be a very unrelenting death metal album. Dismemberment, mutilation, disembowelment and any other descriptor for human evisceration are what I expect to drive the music and lyrics. Exhumed delivers the splattered gore on […]
Tags: 2012, Death Metal, Exhumed, Relapse Records, Review, Travis Bolek
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › M on Thursday, December 1st, 2011
Relapse has reissued some pretty good stuff over the last couple of years, namely the Death reissues as well as General Surgery, Convulse and Nirvana 2002, but along with a couple of the recent Dying Fetus reissues, this one is a bit of head scratcher. For some reason Relapse Records has decided to dust off and […]
Tags: 2011, Death Metal, E.Thomas, Morta Skuld, Relapse Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › B on Tuesday, November 1st, 2011
Brutal Truth returned from their extended hiatus in 2009 with Evolution Through Revolution, an angular, violent extension of the sound they developed on 1997’s Sounds of the Animal Kingdom. End Time sees the band unleash a blistering whirlwind of grinding fury, continuing the developments of Evolution with a slightly meatier production and a noisier and […]
Tags: 2011, Brutal Truth, Chuck Kucher, Grindcore, Relapse Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › M on Monday, October 3rd, 2011
I’ve been a big Mastodon fan since Remission, but even I have to admit that I was surprised to see Crack the Skye named Time magazine’s #3 album of 2009. Of course, it was a terrific release, full of hypnotic, proggy epics and three of my favorite minutes of metal that year (all packed into […]
Tags: 2011, Heavy Metal, Jordan Itkowitz, Mastodon, Relapse Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A, Reviews › D on Friday, September 30th, 2011
It makes sense that Agoraphobic Nosebleed did a split with Despise You. The band has worn proudly on their sleeve their love for grinding power-violence through the shirts they wear, songs they’ve covered, and singer Jay Randall’s very own free record label, Grindcore Karaoke. But they didn’t just have a flavor-of-the-month powerviolence band to do […]
Tags: 2011, Agoraphobic Nosebleed, Despise You, Grindcore, Relapse Records, Review, Stacy Buchanan
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › D on Monday, July 11th, 2011
Metalheads could and will argue about which Death album is the band’s best effort, although to no avail, because arguments could be made for all of them (I’m kinda partial to Spiritual Healing). However, I’m not sure many people would argue that the lineup on 1991’s Human was the best one of Chuck Schuldiner’s rotating […]
Tags: 2011, Death, Death Metal, E.Thomas, Relapse Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › W on Friday, July 8th, 2011
Opening with a ripping guitar solo that hits with the force of an out of control machine gun. Instantly the glass shatters from the window that encases your lavishing frame. 20 seconds in and the murderous intentions seep through and kill everything in the blink of an eye. How is this done? Powerviolence! Weekend Nachos […]
Tags: 2011, Grindcore, Jesse Wolf, Relapse Records, Review, Weekend Nachos
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › G on Friday, July 1st, 2011
For you whippersnappers out there, the current incarnation of General Surgery―the one that reformed in 2003 and has released two full-length albums since―is a far cry from what the band was in 1991 when they unleashed their seven song debut EP Necrology. One of the early super groups, culling members of the then burgeoning Stockholm Death metal […]
Tags: 2011, Death Metal, E.Thomas, General Surgery, Relapse Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › I on Thursday, June 23rd, 2011
Talk about a breath of fresh air. With so much deathcore aping, tech-metal trying to out-tech itself and post-ironic hipster dabbles in the world of heaviness, it’s relief to accidentally come across a record in 2011 that is visceral and extreme without any novelty kitsch. The adventitious record I’m referring to is The Oculus from […]
Tags: 2011, Inevitable End, Relapse Records, Review, Stacy Buchanan
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › Z on Monday, May 16th, 2011
If you like electronic music, particularly proggy synth music, and especially synth-based horror and sci-fi soundtracks from the late ’70s and early ’80s, then you’ll love Zombi. Simple as that. Cosmos, the Pittsburgh-based duo’s 2004 debut, was heavily influenced by Goblin (Dawn of the Dead, Buio Omega, Suspiria) and Italian giallo horror soundtracks in general. […]
Tags: 2011, Jordan Itkowitz, Relapse Records, Review, ZOmbi
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › H on Thursday, May 5th, 2011
Horseback is a unique musical entity that challenges the definition and boundaries of the epithet “band”. Of course this notion isn’t entirely new. Many musical outlets exist that seem to morph in and out of “projects” or “collaborations” and so on without being decidedly active or touring regularly. And when the style of musical output […]
Tags: 2011, Horseback, Relapse Records, Review, Stacy Buchanan
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › O on Monday, March 21st, 2011
The human brain excels at patterns. It does this all day long, interpreting and rendering an endless flood of sensory signals into a cohesive and constant presentation of reality. A large part of this process involves prediction, based on past experience and feedback, so that we have a natural sense of the next step in […]
Tags: 2011, Jordan Itkowitz, Obscura, Relapse Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › D on Monday, March 14th, 2011
The story of the Grotesque Impalement EP is an interesting one, as it was actually self-released (on the band’s own Blunt Force Records) in 1999 as a “holdover” album between Killing on Adrenaline and Destroy the Opposition. Relapse has now reissued the EP with a new package, a remastering job, liner notes from Jason Netherton, […]
Tags: 2011, Dying Fetus, Relapse Records, Review, Scott Alisoglu
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › D on Monday, March 14th, 2011
It wasn’t until 2000’s Destroy the Opposition that I discovered Dying Fetus, who were being touted as the heirs apparent to the then-on-hiatus Suffocation. Based on Destroy the Opposition and Killing on Adrenaline, which I picked up shortly after hearing Destroy the Opposition, those claims were certainly founded at the time. But for those that […]
Tags: 2011, Dying Fetus, E.Thomas, Relapse Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › D on Monday, March 14th, 2011
It’s hard to believe this album was originally released in 1996 on Pulverizer Records. Fifteen years ago? Really? What’s so surprising is what an obvious influence Dying Fetus—and albums like Purification through Violence—has been on the brutal death end of the spectrum, particularly the sub-genre known as slam metal. Check out the first break into […]
Tags: 2011, Dying Fetus, Relapse Records, Review, Scott Alisoglu
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › D on Monday, March 14th, 2011
Regarded as Dying Fetus‘s first ‘real’ release, though not their first album, Infatuation with Malevolence was originally released in 1995 on Wild Rags Records and it compiled two demos: 1993’s Bathe In Entrails and 1994’s Infatuation with Malevolence. Serving as an erstwhile precursor to the bands full-length debut album, 1996’s Purification Through Violence, Infatuation with […]
Tags: 2011, Dying Fetus, E.Thomas, Relapse Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › N on Wednesday, March 9th, 2011
Taking their moniker from the B-Sharps school of “we need a name that’s witty at first, but that seems less funny each time you hear it”; New Mexico’s Noisear has been cranking out the fast and furious since about the turn of the century, to gradually increasing recognition culminating in this, their debut album on […]
Tags: 2011, John Gnesin, Noisear, Relapse Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › R on Monday, February 28th, 2011
When Finland’s Rotten Sound release an album, it’s always with a certain level of expectation. Certainly musically and sonically, even aesthetics are key, but what always keeps new releases from them exciting isn’t just the consistency, it’s the small but important augmentations and advances to their blistering grind that always seem to elevate their craft […]
Tags: 2011, Relapse Records, Review, Rotten Sound, Stacy Buchanan
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › F on Wednesday, November 17th, 2010
Incantation is the new black. If mimicry is the highest form of flattery, Incantation have to be drowning in flattery considering the rather sudden rash of supposedly old school death metal acts that are plying a form of their trademark style. It’s a style I never cared for when Incantation played it 15 years ago […]
Tags: 2010, E.Thomas, Father Befouled, Relapse Records, Review