Posts Tagged ‘br00tal tunes’
I am a sucker for stoner metal these days. Not only are the band names particularly appealing, but that swampy, bass-laden groove sinks right through into your bones. One Inch Giant are a stoner metal / rock group from Gothenburg, Sweden, and we all know quality metal oozes out from that city as if Kyuss [...]
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Have you ever listened to an album and had a hard time deciding if it’s brilliant or just downright absurd? This is how I usually feel about Zebulon Pike. Formed in 2002, the band’s previous releases – such as And Blood Was Passion (2004) and The Deafening Twilight (2006) – fluctuate between moments of brilliance [...]
Read MoreDo you remember last year I reviewed an album by the Finnish band The Physicists, Observation. The music is mathdeathboogie, and it’s madness. I loved it so much I even stuck it in my list of the Top Ten Metal Albums of 2011. Well, the Physicists have just released a music video for their song [...]
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“Illumination through Satanic Gnosticism!” proclaims Ptahil’s marketing material. “Lyrically manuscripted from Satanic introspection and musically composed from dissonant flagellation.” I cannot make this stuff up. Described as Satanic black/punk/doom, Ptahil seem to have way too many “slashes” through their genre to be any good. (It’s usually my experience that the number of descriptive genre words [...]
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I had an article all planned for today, but then a friend at work introduced me to Wardruna, and I cannot get the music out of my head. You could describe Wardruna as “Viking elevator music”, if you weren’t fussed about your head remaining attached to your body. Wardruna is a musical project from Kvitrafn [...]
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Review: One Inch Giant – Malva
Steff Metal interviews Tim “Ripper” Owens
Steve Hughes: Heavy Metal Comedy
Steff Metal reviews Zebulon Pike “Space Is the Corpse of Time”
