E.P. Reviews

Anyone who has read my reviews knows that I have a strained relationship with Abysmal Dawn at best. At the best of times, I find the death metal quartet to be passable, but I quickly begin to lose interest in their brand of modern death metal. Their [...]

India, though not a country that usually people normally relate with metal, maintains a steadily growing trajectory with newer bands popping up and breaking through the local scene, the upper echelon of whom even release successful records on [...]

At this stage in the game, it’s very easy to see Insomnium going down in the annals of melodic death metal history. As a consistent contributor over the past two decades, the Finnish quartet have transformed into a powerhouse of Finnish melancholy [...]

“Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of [...]

When the news broke in 2019 that Children Of Bodom had decided to call it a day, it had many fans left wondering if this was truly the end. And while the members of the band went their separate ways, enigmatic frontman Alexi Laiho was never going to go [...]

Tasmanian technical death metal devils Psycroptic are back with another short entry into their extensive catalog, 2020’s single/EP, “The Watcher of All”. Seemingly hot on the heels of 2018’s “As the Kingdom Drowns”, [...]

Supergroups are hit-or-miss in many cases. There is something about the antithesis of the sum being lesser than its parts that plague supergroups across all genres of art, and metal is not an exception to the rule. Very few supergroups make it past their [...]

Taking its name from the 1974 Spanish-Italian answer to the seminal ‘Night of the Living Dead,’ the riff salad of “The Living Dead At The Manchester Morgue,” which kicks off Carcass’ ‘Despicable’ EP, comes on like [...]