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Urne – A Feast on Sorrow Review

By Carcharodon on August 11, 2023 in Reviews, Post-Hardcore, Progressive Metal, 52 comments

“I like metal to have an emotional heart to it. By this, I mean that, when I’m listening to a record, I want to feel that a band has poured some of itself into the music. Now, I get this is not for everyone and there is undoubtedly a place for straightforward riffs that one can just switch off and headbang to. That is not A Feast for Sorrow, the sophomore album from UK trio Urne, a band Metal Archives wholly inaccurately brands as “Stoner/Sludge Metal/Metalcore.”” Sorrow as fuel, pain as inspiration.

Roadburn 2017 Live Review

By GardensTale on May 1, 2017 in 2017, Blog Posts, Live Reviews, 45 comments

“Every year, something special takes place in my hometown of Tilburg, The Netherlands: the festival of Roadburn. Roadburn isn’t like your average festival. There’s no marquees, no fields of green devolving into mud, and no crowds the size of small towns worshiping the biggest bands. Instead, thousands of people dressed in black gather from every corner of the continent, and some from other continents, to see over 100 doom, stoner and other kinds of acts whose success lies almost entirely in the underground.” Welcome to the dope show.

Dr. Fisting’s Top Ten(ish) of 2016

By Dr. Fisting on December 29, 2016 in 2016, Blog Posts, Lists, 84 comments

“Scientists all agree that 2016 is the worst year of anyone’s life who has ever lived, including mine. We lost a lot of musical heroes this year (both metal and otherwise), and the current political climate has brought unprecedented levels of stupidity to my doorstep. Worse yet, I am often surrounded by terrible music made by dickheads.” Read this and don’t be a dickhead.

Gojira – Magma [Things You Might Have Missed 2016]

By Huck N Roll on December 17, 2016 in 2016, French Metal, Heavy Metal, Progressive Metal, Reviews, Roadrunner, Things You Might Have Missed 2016, Heavy Metal, Progressive Metal, 41 comments

“Gojira’s Magma was a pretty major release this year, and while it didn’t get any Angry Metal Guy love it got plenty of Huck N Roll love. So much so, in fact, that it landed in my comprehensive, well thought out, Best of 2016 list.” Feel the Huck love.

Locrian – Return to Annihilation Review

By Alex Franquelli on June 21, 2013 in 2013, 4.5, American Metal, Groove Metal, Non-Metal Metal Things, Relapse, Reviews, 3 comments

“Have you ever wondered what happens to the music nobody listens to? It implodes. It does not even make any noise. It simply withers unnoticed, forgotten, unwanted. Then there is the music that stays: that particular strain of artistic endeavor that appeals to the masses and (sometimes) the niches and that we are taught not to live without. Locrian are the natural evolution (some may say ‘consequence’) of the Chicago scene of the late 90s where acts like Tortoise, Isotope 217, and Gastr Del Sol flourished and kept the territory safe from the dying throes of grunge.” Alex thinks this album shouldn’t be left to implode into a black hole of apathy. In fact, he seems quite taken with this experimental fusion of drone, blackness and the kitchen sink.