Aucausal Intrusion – Vomit Meditations Review
In an act of unconscious serendipity, shortly before beginning this review, I re-read Jean-Paul Sartre’s Nausea. The serendipity…
Gorod – The Ember Gone Review
Though Gorod began as a more conventional technical death metal outfit, progressive songwriting seeps deeper into their bones…
Exumer – Death Mask Messiah Review
Exumer are probably viewed as a footnote in the Big Book of Germanic Thrash. After all, they only…
Flotsam and Jetsam – Rats in the Temple Review
Flotsam and Jetsam started out as the ultimate underdog act, and somehow, they’ve retained that workaday everyman vibe…
Peak medical bodies demand inquiry into rising childbirth injury rates
The calls from the National Association of Specialist Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, the Colorectal Surgical Society of Australia and…
Dymna Lotva – Vyraj Review
The power of storytelling is well-known to Belarusian post-black outcasts Dymna Lotva. Their previous album, The Land Under…
Psycroptic – The Pulse of Annihilation Review
Psycroptic have been a cornerstone in the tech death scene since the turn of the century. Their 2003…
Carbon Tomb – Passage to a Neutron Star Review
While any band, metal or not, would kill to have a classic in their discography, I often feel…
Eaten by Sharks – The Undertow of Hate Review
In his review of Eaten by Sharks’s debut, Eradication, Carcharodon mollified readers about the dangers of sharks by…
Emptiness – Nowhere Speaks Review
Emptiness, nothingness, absence, non-being: such evocations of negation abound in extreme metal, often justifiably given the visceral analogy…
Hours of Worship – Resignation Review
I’ve always been more drawn to art that induces ‘negative’ emotions over ‘positive’ ones. I hate happy endings;…
Blood Mother – Blood Mother Review
After 18 years and five full-length albums as frontman to The Lion’s Daughter, Rick Giordano decided “the daughter…