ALBUM REVIEW: Witchsorrow – The Devil and All His Works


Witchsorrow’s last album saw the band taking the throb of Electric Wizard and giving it the grit of High on Fire. They changed up the strain of weed they were smoking when working on their newest album The Devil And All His Works (Church Road Records), as they take a turn down a darker path that is haunted by subtle bits of psychedelia. The opening track sprawls out into eleven minutes of hypnotic rumbling and pulses punctuated by a more deliberate stomp. It sounds great, though it leans more into the sounds summoned here rather than offering anything hooky. They saved the longest for first, since the rest of the album is more compact for Doom Metal hovering around the eight-minute mark per song. Continue reading →


ALBUM REVIEW: Warning – Rituals Of Shame


Innovative to the core, you have to admit that Warning not releasing an album for twenty years is certainly one way of avoiding the dreaded Tricky Third Album Syndrome. As it turns out, though, there was no need to worry anyway, as Rituals Of Shame (Relapse Records), the first studio appearance from the Essex doomsters since 2006, just so happens to be another remarkable masterclass in misery. Continue reading →


CONCERT REVIEW: Napalm Death – Primitive Man – Nastie Band Live at Rocks Off Concert Cruise, NYC


Camera? check.
Ear plugs? check.
Cash for the bar? check.
Dramamine? check.

Playing in Grindcore bands for the past decade, I owe a lot to Napalm Death. And yet I had never gotten the chance to see them. So when the opportunity struck to not only catch the OG’s live, but to see them on a boat, I jumped at the opportunity. Even more exciting, the British extreme metal band was joined on the US leg of their 2026 festival season tour dates by Colorado Sludge-Doom legends Primitive Man and artsy Blackened Funeral supergroup Nastie Band. Continue reading →