High on Fire – De Vermis Mysteriis

Scenario: At birth, Jesus actually comes into the world with a twin, who is basically stillborn. The catch is (and it’s really a pretty big one) that the deceased twin can now, in a sense, travel through time and see things through the eyes of his ancestors. He gulps down (thanks to a dude named [...]

Goatwhore – Blood for the Master

“Satan has been the best friend the church has ever had, for he has kept it in business all these years.” – Anton LaVey, The Satanic Bible

It seems to me that LaVey succeeded in hitting the proverbial nail squarely on the head with the above statement. The so-called “good guys” can bitch and moan [...]

Lord Mantis – Pervertor

“No tears, please. It’s a waste of good suffering.” – Pinhead, Hellraiser
Ladies and gentlemen, I ask you…have you ever seen the face of a true nightmare? Ever stared, wide-eyed and scared senseless at something so goddamn, unforgivingly gruesome that its cold, pale fingers dug their way deep into your quivering brain forever? Ever been unwillingly [...]

Ancient VVisdom – A Godlike Inferno (reissue)

Whoever coined the age-old saying, “Evil comes in many forms.”, hit the nail squarely on its head. When it comes to music, the unholy influence of Old Scratch can manifest in about a billion blasphemous ways. Throughout the bloodstained history of extreme music, legendary bands like Slayer, Danzig and pre-career flop Morbid Angel have all [...]

Dismemberment – Denied Salvation

“Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls…dyin’ time’s here.” – Dr. Dealgood, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome

Life comes with a virtual fucking ton of warnings. Just about everywhere you look, you can find some kind of cautionary statement indicating the idea that if you aren’t careful, you might just find yourself on the losing end of [...]

Asphyx – Deathhammer

Whoever said the Grim Reaper is a “Negative Nancy”? I mean, sure, the guy can really put a damper on things when it comes to the more personal, inner workings of our lives as humans, but it’d be a bit naïve to say he’s 100% bad. One only needs to take a glimpse at all [...]

Chinaski – Cruelty

“It’s like killing roaches. You have to kill ‘em all. Otherwise…what’s the use?” – Charles Bronson as Paul Kersey, Deathwish 3
You have to hand it to those among us that have no qualms whatsoever about pulling all the stops and grinning at the thought of the ensuing flood’s cleansing properties. It’s just like Bronson said, [...]

Radiation Sickness – Reflections of a Psychotic Past

You kids these days…let me tell ya! Not to give those impressionable, trend-hopping minds the opportunity to slap some kind of stupid-ass label on me for saying this, but at the age of thirty-five, I’ve reached the point where I’ve seen and heard enough clueless and even disrespectful behavior at the hands of the modern [...]

Hunters – From Birth To Soil

In movies, books, artwork, and general folklore, the prehistoric woolly mammoth has, throughout history, often been portrayed as a gigantic, lumbering peacefully-minded juggernaut that will, however, put any would-be predator and/or dipshit, Neanderthal asshole square in their place if the elephant-like giant felt at all threatened. I’m guessing that being stomped into the tundra by [...]

Entrails

Formed in what many refer to as the death metal heyday in the early 1990’s, old school-minded Swedish death crew, Entrails, embraced the ravenous ways of the genre’s most notable contributors. Not long after their inception, the band lay dormant from the mid-nineties until just a few years ago, when the beast was resurrected to [...]

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