Live from the Pit: Wayfarer @ Piranha Bar – 05/16/2024

Wayfarer @ Piranha Barw/ Sonja, ValdrinMay 16th, 2024Extensive EnterpriseMontreal, Quebec, Canada I'm always quick to admit when I'm not super familiar with an artist. I had heard the name Wayfarer around the way and may have even heard a song or two from them over the years, but I'd never delved into their discography at …

Album Review: Midnight – Hellish Expectations

"Why would I want you to die? So you could be free? Don't want to see you in hell, not next to me." Midnight - Hellish ExpectationsMarch 8th, 2024Blackened Heavy / Speed MetalMetal Blade RecordsCleveland, Ohio, USA Screaming back for more after the release of 2022's Let There Be Witchery, solo musician Athenar, under the …

Album Review: Valdrin – Throne of the Lunar Soul

"I ask of thee, be not a victim of doubt, or regret, for in the end all returns to balance." Valdrin - Throne of the Lunar SoulNovember 24th, 2023Melodic Black Metal / Blackened Death MetalBlood HarvestCincinnati, Ohio, USA I'd never heard of Valdrin before but upon taking one look at the breathtaking cover art that …

Album Review: Sanguisugabogg – Homicidal Ecstasy

"I stab my scrotum, incisions, I'll never have sex again." Sanguisugabogg - Homicidal EcstasyFebruary 3rd, 2023Death MetalCentury Media RecordsColumbus, Ohio, USA Returning from the filth from whence they originally came, Columbus, Ohio death metal quartet Sanguisugabogg have returned with their second full length album. Released once again through Century Media Records, this new album, entitled …

Album Review: Midnight – Let There Be Witchery

"Possess me eternally, bestow to me szex witchery." Midnight - Let There Be WitcheryMarch 4th, 2022Blackened Heavy Metal / Speed MetalMetal Blade RecordsCleveland, Ohio, USA I've been a fan of Midnight ever since my partner introduced them to me back in 2018. These guys, or more specifically, guy (Athenar), have been steadily pumping out their …

Album Review: 200 Stab Wounds – Slave to the Scalpel

200 Stab Wounds - Slave to the ScalpelNovember 12th, 2021Death MetalMaggot Stomp RecordsCleveland, Ohio, USA The return of sickening old school death metal has only gotten bigger and better over the last few years, with groups like Gatecreeper and Blood Incantation leading the charge, and giving way to younger, newer outfits like Frozen Soul. Among …

Album Review: Sanguisugabogg – Tortured Whole

"Awaken from the grave, body's stiff and cold, scratch the coffin's door, tear the rotted wood." Sanguisugabogg - Tortured WholeMarch 26th, 2021Death MetalCentury Media RecordsColumbus, Ohio, USA Sanguisugabogg are a band who piqued my interest last year with the release of their debut EP, Pornographic Seizures, which reached into the glut of old school death …

EP Review: Sanguisugabogg – Pornographic Seizures

Sanguisugabogg - Pornographic Seizures July 26th, 2020 Death Metal Maggot Stomp Ohio, United States The name may strike you as bizarre, and that's because it is, but what Sanguisugabogg bring to the table beyond an indecipherable name is a raucous assault of brutal, unrelenting death metal awash in the fervor of castrating violence. The band has …

Album Review: Midnight – Rebirth by Blasphemy

Midnight - Rebirth by Blasphemy January 24th, 2020 Blackened Heavy Metal Metal Blade Records Cleveland, Ohio, USA Midnight, the one man blackened force of crushing evil headed by multi-instrumentalist Athenar, has been languishing in relative underground obscurity ever since their formation in 2003. However, with the release of 2011's Satanic Royalty the band started picking up a …

Album Review: Thank You Scientist – Terraformer

Thank You Scientist - Terraformer June 14th, 2019 New Progressive / Jazz Fusion Evil Ink Records Montclair, New Jersey, USA I first discovered Thank You Scientist while on tour with my friend's band through the American Midwest in June of 2019. Coincidentally we ended up playing in the basement of the same venue that Thank …