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Alabama Thunderpussy – Fulton Hill – Review

September 27, 2004

Huge and clear, but with none of the essential rock ‘n’ roll grit scrubbed away. New singer Johnny Weills’ feel for bluesier rock music opens up new avenues.

Godflesh – Messiah – Review

October 8, 2003

From Hydra Head to the turntablist crowd, this band’s fingerprints are etched deep and hard into the minds of underground noise/electronicheads everywhere.

Dysrhythmia – Pretest – Review

September 24, 2003

Dysrythmia are not interested in playing the most complicated, fucked up eight-minute instrumentals. They’d rather dance around each other’s gliding shadows.

Contaminated 5.0 – Review

July 2, 2003

Death, technical, sludge-y, grinding, stoner, and occasionally “weird.” The best are death metal gods. Some decent stuff with horrible crap in between.

Nile – In Their Darkened Shrines – Review

January 31, 2003

Extreme, guttural, thick and progressive, Nile delivering the somewhat expected snaky Middle Eastern lead patterns, twinned and beyond.

Mastodon – Remission – Review

November 22, 2002

Every chug of the guitar, every insane drum fill, every melting-face scream hits like a tsunami of Eyehategod records on fast-forward.

Burnt By The Sun – Soundtrack to the Personal Revolution – Review

June 28, 2002

Could this really be the same band that created a clumsy, directionless EP a year ago? Or did Botch and Mastodon fuse together without telling anyone?

Mastodon – Lifesblood – Review

April 12, 2002

Exquisite technicality embracing neo-Sabbath doominess coupled with eerie melodies of early ’90s death metal, punctuated by Clutch’s down and dirty aesthetics.

Pig Destroyer – Prowler in the Yard – Review

March 8, 2002

Three-piece, no bassist, all-out gore/grind madness. All the songs fall under a minute-and-a-half. Down and dirty, raw as fuck, and violence-inducing.

Amorphis – Am Universum – Review

February 22, 2002

This singular sound is a combination of doomy, death-like melodies with completely conventional rock instrumentation. I find it a bit naggingly fence-sitting.