Occult Deceiver has been a big part of the Indianapolis live music scene for some time, but until recently had no recorded material. With the release of their debut album Dark Ritual, recorded and mixed by Clandestine [...]
About halfway through “A Ripping Strike,” the second track on London-based Craven Idol’s forthcoming sophomore full-length The Shackles of Mammon, I had a though that I don’t usually have when listening to black [...]
Ah, brutal death metal, one of metal’s most tenacious and consistent institutions. It seems like every year, despite the genre being firmly out of style, metal listeners receive an absurdly monumental serving of it [...]
From Void Cruiser’s name to their artwork and band member titles, it seems their second full-length album, Wayfarer, is poised to be seen as a fairly typical heavy space rock release. This notion is further reinforced [...]
Thrash metal is an easy genre to fake. It’s writable by people without any training or even an ear for good music and it’s playable by sloppy musicians. This is why thrash is an oversaturated market. The 80s and 90s [...]
The early to mid-80s are seen as a simpler time for heavy metal, but it might be more appropriate to say that things were just more ambiguous back then. It was a time when extremities were developing beyond their [...]
Perrin Brewing Company Black Ale (5.8%) Pour: 12 oz. can into a snifter Appearance: Black (duh) with a healthy tannish head. Not completely opaque, but pretty damn close. Nice edging and a touch of lacing. Aroma: [...]
The release of The Obsessed’s fourth full-length album is rather odd when placed in the overall context of Wino’s long running career. It is the first record under that banner since 1994’s The Church Within, and while [...]
