Little to no actual songcraft happening here, but lotsa heavy riffing, grumbling low-end, and psychotic, tortured vocals for six to ten minutes at a time.
Not what you’d expect from Bill Rieflin, Ministry’s drummer from ’86 to ’94. Birth of a Giant is skewed art-rock semi-atonal musings much in the Crimson style.
With the pretensions of both parties, the result is a clash of plunder-minded egos that fans of both of these rock’n’roll Napoleons are gonna find annoying.
Ex-guitarist of Refused, drummer of Komeda. Abhinanda’s third full-length willll make you sweat, roar happily at its might, and wow at its daring moments.
A diverse collection of tunes á la Scott Weiland’s underrated solo disc. While the above mentioned songs fail to grab me, there are some masterpieces here.
Japan’s United have updated their sound (finally), switching from a thrash/speedmetal band to a roaring, dark nü metal band with strong urges to thrash about.
Ex-Pink Lincoln Chris Barrows returns with three beauties to release a 12-minute, six-song EP mixed by Bill Stevenson (ALL/Descendents) at The Blasting Room.
What a disappointment. Chris Cornell was the singer in a fine rock band. What did he do after the band broke up? He made a wimpy singer/songwritery solo album.