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Live Report: Exhumed, With Goatwhore, Havok
Chris Krovatin is the author of two young adult novels, Heavy Metal & You and Venomous. He is currently working on multiple new writing projects, as well as new material with his local New York metal band Flaming Tusk. He is a contributing writer for Revolver and generally comes off as a good-natured pain in everyone’s collective ass. [...]
Review: Whitechapel – Recorrupted EP
For many metalheads, the definition of “deathcore” seems allusive, save that it’s a form of death metal that has perhaps one too many breakdowns. Whitechapel are a shining example of the triviality of such subgenre definitions. On their Recorrupted EP, the Knoxville sextet (three guitarists, oy) blast through one original track, two remixes, an acoustic [...]
Final Six: The Six Hottest Chicks/Ugliest Dudes in Metal
Chris “Fatneck McFlabbyass” Krovatin is the author of two young adult novels, Heavy Metal & You and Venomous. He is currently working on multiple new writing projects, as well as new material with his local New York metal band Flaming Tusk. He is a freelance writer for Revolver and generally comes off as a good-natured [...]
Live Report: The Black Dahlia Murder With All Shall Perish, Cannabis Corpse
Chris Krovatin is the author of two young adult novels, Heavy Metal & You and Venomous. He is currently working on multiple new writing projects, as well as new material with his local New York metal band Flaming Tusk. He is a contributing writer for Revolver and generally comes off as a good-natured pain in everyone’s collective ass. [...]
Review: Skeletonwitch – Forever Abomination
The fourth studio effort from Ohio’s Skeletonwitch has the same flaw as their previous releases—at times one can feels like they’re listening to the same song over and over. Fortunately, that song is a raging badass thrash attack. Opener “The Horrifying Force” explodes into being with Hetfieldian skill, while the solos on “Of Ash And [...]
Review: Mastodon – The Hunter
It takes a special kind of band to put out an album whose gimmick is that it doesn’t have a grandiose cosmic concept behind it, but Mastodon do just that with The Hunter, their fifth full-length record and third major label release. But while such a claim hints at a “return to form,” it’s truly [...]
Review: Warbringer – Worlds Torn Asunder
With their third full-length album, L.A.’s Warbringer have come into their own, penning a dynamic record heavy with apocalyptic disillusionment and technical proficiency. Tracks like “Living Weapon” and “Savagery” possess layers of chainsaw riffage and snarled vocals, while chargers “Tracherous Tongue” and Enemies Of The State” keep the album’s momentum from slipping. But it’s duo of [...]
Review: Saviours – Death’s Procession
There is a type of music that is best listened to in a van. It has to be something as large and unwieldy as the vehicle itself, something that echoes well in a smoke-filled cabin, something that is only improved by an airbrushed depiction of the Grim Reaper wrestling a tiger on a Yin Yang [...]
Review: Vader – Welcome to the Morbid Reich
Between 2002’s Revelations and 2009’s Necropolis, Vader seemed to fall victim to formulaic songwriting, but on their 10th full-length, Poland’s most vicious export is back in full force. Welcome looms with an imperial menace sometimes lost on the band. Tracks like “The Black Eye” and “I Am Who Feasts Upon Your Soul” offer sledgehammer riffage [...]
Final Six: The Six Most Metal Serial Killers/Cereal Characters
Count Chocula is an undead pusher made of fucking chocolate. Accept no substitutes.
