Metal Briefs: Otaku Edition I know I’ve mentioned before that I’m a nerd-wannabe, and that includes a minor case of Japanophilia. For better or worse, though, my Japano...
Dark Wave Briefs "Full Metal" . . . right . . .It seems these days I'm circling further and further afield of metal or even anything remotely a...
Metal Briefs: Clearing the Docket National Sunday Law: Festival of the Horned God (2012) 4 out of 5 stars It's practically criminal how long I've been sitting on this...
Death Metal Briefs: Part 1000 or Whatever Skelethal: Interstellar Knowledge of the Purple Entity (2014) 4.5 out of 5 stars Skelethal is an extra-heavy, extra-doomy kind of Swe-death ...
Dark Americana Briefs, Volume 19 King Buzzo: This Machine Kills Artists (2014) 3.5 out of 5 stars King Buzzo (of Melvins fame) released an acoustic album in early 2014. It...
Metal Briefs: Two by Two by Two Part Four BinaryTwo songs each. Two sentences each. Portal / Blood of Kingu: Split 7" (2014) 3.5 out of 5 stars This is a rough, early version of...
Dark Americana Briefs, Volume 18 Ladies' Night Feist: Metals (2011) 4 out of 5 stars Feist is a Canadian who stretches my preconceived notions about what "pop"...
Dark Americana Briefs, Volume 17 If God is vengeance, we all have it coming.Bob Dylan: John Wesley Harding (1967) 4 out of 5 stars With great tunes like "As I Went Out ...
Death Metal Briefs: Clearing the Docket Thrice DeadI've had some of these waiting for review for far too long, so let's get to it. Concrete Icon: Perennial Anguish (2013) 3...
Death Metal Briefs 2014 Seared Flesh--Hold the TomatoFor the most part, I haven't been devoting much time to the simple pleasures of death metal. But there'...
More Death Metal Briefs Death!I know you want to read about three more death metal albums that are going under the radar. Vassafor / Sinistrous Diabolus: Split (201...
Black Metal Briefs 2014 Thrice BlackenedYou know how these roundups work, so let's get to the black metal. Bölzer: Soma 4.5 out of 5 stars Bölzer has managed to...
Metal Briefs: Doom EPs At the Graves at SeaWhere my doom at? There seems to be a drought of doom as of late. Perhaps it’s at the graves, which may be at sea. But a...
Dark Americana Briefs, Volume 16 Kristian Harting: Float (2014) 4 out of 5 stars I wasn't quite sure whether to include this as a dark Americana entry, because there'...
Death Metal Briefs: 2014 Death: There's Enough to Go AroundDeath metal came back in 2013, and it's still going strong in 2014. But I've been favoring the...