Monthly Archives:

January 2014

  • - Album Reviews

    Snakeroot – Downtown to Ghetto

    I don’t know if, like me, you sometimes hanker for the simple things in life? You know what I mean, you’ve had a seriously hard day for whatever reason and, when…

  • - Album Reviews

    Fethi Okutan- Fethi Okutan

    Ode to the unheralded bass player…. We see him on the side, usually stage left. He is a stoic figure most of the time, patiently keeping the pace while the rest…

  • - Album Reviews

    Sırmalı – Gençlik Rüyası

    They say that music can cross all barriers, be it political, cultural, or even the language barrier. I have, recently, reviewed two releases from Turkish artists where, in the case of…

  • Album Reviews

    Need- Orvam: A Song for Home

    It’s a near impossible task sometimes to fit a certain band into a genre. It almost makes me feel cheap to label them like that, to take such a wondrously intense…

  • - Album Reviews

    Astral Domine- Arcanum Gloriae

    During the last year, I’ve heard a lot of praises for Italian metal scene, especially applied to the recently formed bands. I’ve ended up checking some of their albums in 2013,…

  • - Album Reviews

    Persuader – The Fiction Maze

    I consider myself a connoisseur of melodic metal music for most of my adolescent and adult life. So when I received the promotional copy of Persuader’s The Fiction Maze, I was…

  • Album Reviews

    Atma Weapon- Dark Tower

    I’d like to open up this review with a very sincere apology to the band Atma Weapon. I actually came across this album months ago on one of my Bandcamp fishing…