Kittie’s KittiePIG Non-Alcoholic Beer Taste Test and Review


Welcome to another product video! Keefy takes on the KittiePIG beer from  @kittiechannel  and We Are Pigs/Esjay Jones! “The worlds first non-alcoholic beer brand, brewed specifically for the Alternative and Heavy Music Culture!” Keefy checks out the brand, explains the flavor profile and tasting notes, and then cracks a can open, pours a glass, and gives you his unfiltered opinion. In short  – it’s tasty, non-alcoholic, and Vegan! (does contain barley)!Continue reading


ALBUM REVIEW: Lacolpa – In Absentia Lucis


Lacolpa’s new album, In Absentia Lucis (Brucia Records) finds the Italian band diving deeper into darkness. Their brand of darkness this time is more experimental than most heard this year. While they still self-identify as a Sludge band there is more common ground with Current 93 than with Neurosis

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EP REVIEW: Horse Butcher – Horse Butcher


In a world full of two-faced people, misleading information and strings attached to practically everything, Goregrind is the breath of fresh air society needs. Simply put: what you see is what you get.Continue reading


ALBUM REVIEW: Pillar Of Light – Caldera


This Detroit-based Sludge band Pillar Of Light moves into their brand of Metal like a storm cloud on their debut full-length Caldera (Transcending Obscurity Records) with a hypnotic manner of riffing that allows the songs to flow.  Continue reading


ALBUM REVIEW: Conjonctive – Misère de Poussière


Swiss death metallers Conjonctive have released Misère de Poussière (Tenacity Music), an album that features their dual vocalists Randy Schaller from Voice Of Ruin and Sonia Kaya. Unlike many European Death Metal bands, there is a bouncing groove to their sound at times that might bring to mind the rougher moments of a band like Slipknot. Not that the band is trying to hop on the Nu-Metal revival train; things like the tremolo-picked guitars prove to the contrary. Though with ample Black Metal influence, aggression is more of a focus than a worship of darkness. They are skilled at delivering deliberate accents to provide more hooks than just battering your senses.Continue reading


ALBUM REVIEW: Opeth – The Last Will and Testament


 

Rejoice, fellow death metal fans, Opeth has brought back the harsh vocals! That’s right. Mikael Ackerfeldt and company figured now was the time, as their new album, The Last Will & Testament (Reigning Phoenix Music), has the perfect concept to complement it. The reading of a post-World War 1 patriarch’s last will and testament that spills out family secrets, track by track, section by section of the document (the first seven tracks are named simply after which paragraph is being recited). In terms of instrumentals, this album is my favorite mix of the melodic death metal era of Opeth and the more recent prog-rock era of the band.Continue reading