Discography Deep Dive: Gojira – From Mars to Sirius

"Now I can see the whales, looming out of the dark, like arrows in the sky, I can't believe my eyes." Gojira - From Mars to SiriusSeptember 27th, 2005Progressive Death MetalListenable RecordsOndres, France So we have come to From Mars to Sirius, an album that received no end of love and lauding from the metal …

Discography Deep Dive: Gojira – The Link

"In our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us, by the awful grace of god." Gojira - The LinkApril 18th, 2003Progressive Death MetalBoycott RecordsOndres, Frances While Terra Incognita might have had all of the necessary building blocks for Gojira to build their sound from the ground up, there was something about that album …

Discography Deep Dive: Gojira – Terra Incognita

"Now take the path, don't ever lose your time. Just watch the lights you have inside." Gojira - Terra IncognitaMarch 19th, 2001Progressive Death MetalGabriel EditionsOndres, France We return to Discography Deep Dive after a multi-month hiatus, and this time around I decided I wanted to cover one of the most prolific and perhaps important metal …

Album Review: Man Must Die – The Pain Behind It All

"We seek patterns in the chaos. You don't want the truth." Man Must Die - The Pain Behind It AllFebruary 17th, 2023Technical Death Metal / DeathcoreDistortion Music GroupGlasgow, Scotland, UK I haven't listened to Man Must Die since my early teenage years of extreme metal exploration, and even so it had been so long since …

Album Review: SpiritWorld – Deathwestern

"If you would've told me how this would end, I'd have called you a fool." SpiritWorld - DeathwesternNovember 25th, 2022Hardcore / Thrash MetalCentury Media RecordsLas Vegas, Nevada, USA So, Las Vegas cowboy rockers SpiritWorld are back with their sophomore album, Deathwestern. I first became aware of these guys when I saw them with Tribal Gaze …

Album Review: Riverside – ID.Entity

"Maybe you're a collection of everything I want, and you've been customized for my desires." Riverside - ID.EntityJanuary 20th, 2023Progressive RockInsideOut Music / Mystic ProductionWarsaw, Poland Riverside are one of those bands that I was always tangentially aware of back in my days of heavy prog music consumption, when I was a huge fan of …

Live from the Pit: Tomb Mold @ Foufounes Electriques – 09/16/2023

Tomb Mold@ Foufounes ElectriquesW/ Outer Heaven, and Serpent Corpse I have to be honest that I've never really gotten into Tomb Mold's music all that much in the past. I always recognized them as a very competent death metal band with some very talented musicians behind each record, but for some reason it never clicked …

Live from the Pit: Mr. Bungle @ MTELUS – 09/12/2023

Mr. Bungle@ MTELUSw/ Battles I originally wasn't going to go see this show as the tickets had sold out before I was able to fully commit to the purchase. Thankfully for me, Lady Luck shone her light on me, and a friend of a friend of mine sold me their ticket to this coveted gig. …

Album Review: Mr. Bungle – The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny

"Poser population is increasing, real life thrash is not ceasing." Mr. Bungle - The Raging Wrath of the Easter BunnyOctober 30th, 2020Thrash Metal / CrossoverIpecac RecordingsEureka, California, USA It's a shame it took me so long to get around to actually reviewing this album, but at least we're finally here. Coming screaming out of the …

Album Review: Knife – Heaven Into Dust

"There are no gods, no gods in the dark." Knife - Heaven Into DustAugust 25th, 2023Blackened Speed MetalNapalm RecordsMarburg, Germany I first became aware of Knife in 2021 around the release of their first full length record, Knife, which was a ripping piece of auditory devastation that I found myself returning to time and time …