Kingdom of Noise

No album had the kind of widespread impact on the metal community as Pallbearer's Sorrow & Extinction . Fawned over by critics a...

Whenever I listen to Ash Borer there is only one thing I want to do, and that is nothing. I just want to be. And let the sound wash over...

This San Francisco group came out of virtually nowhere to captivate me almost beyond words. I tried to put my thoughts about Bosse-De-Na...

I don't believe I have as of yet been able to fully appreciate all that is Evoken, but Atra Mors may be the (anti-)stimulus needed...

Few releases of 2012 pack as much atmospheric punch as Vessels of Light and Decay . Just as the hooded figure on the cover invites ...

No album of 2011 captured me the way Diotima (Profound Lore) did. Krallice have crafted a masterpiece that at times has left me literall...

I'm definitely running into some descriptory fatigue. I'm even making up words. That bums me out more than the doomy, depressive, ...

Again for the sake of laziness, I mean, expediency, I'm just going to copy the review True Traitor, True Whore  I wrote a few weeks ag...

I'm usually a pretty upbeat kind of guy. But I have had my down times. Plenty actually. Despond ( Profound Lore ) is the soundtrack f...

I don't usually like to make direct comparisons between bands but in this case the similarity (to me) was so striking I couldn't h...

I've seen Shutter Island . An asylum no place I want to go. But not all asylums are created equal. Be it a  physical place or merely a s...

Winnipeg's KEN Mode crack the top 30 as the second Canadian entry on my list. As much as I like the album, I find it very hard to descri...

Releasing an album in late October doesn't leave much time for scribes such as myself to digest it before the baying for year end lists...

That album title sure is a mouthful isn't it? Sounds pretty deep doesn't it? Well so does the record. ATVODBUOSMF (Profound Lore) ...

It's not often that an album hits me with the kind of force that No Help For The Might Ones did. I had never heard their previous work ...