Posts Tagged ‘Relapse Records’

Metal was in an awkward transitional place when I was in high school. For example, I distinctly remember seeing Warrant, Trixter, and Firehouse somewhere in Illinois the summer after Cherry Pie came out. Metallica’s “Black Album” came out my senior year [...]

While you may not suspect it, the term “world building” (which literally means to construct an imaginary universe that events may take place in) is perhaps best applied to the music of Tau Cross, an internationally formed metal/punk supergroup [...]

Upon hearing “Total Human Genocide,” the opening track on Expulsion’s debut EP Nightmare Future, your first thought might be something along the lines of “holy shit – this sounds like a perfect cross between Exhumed and Repulsion.” Well…there’s a reason [...]

The release of The Obsessed’s fourth full-length album is rather odd when placed in the overall context of Wino’s long running career. It is the first record under that banner since 1994’s The Church Within, and while the legendary six-stringer has still [...]

After a several year hiatus during which the members joined forces with Tim Bagshaw (With the Dead, ex-Electric Wizard) in Serpentine Path, NYC doom/sludge merchants Unearthly Trance are back with Stalking the Ghost, their first new music since 2010’s V. [...]

I absolutely love Iron Reagan, but in spite of their name, they’ve never really struck me as the sort of band that would let politics get in the way of the party. Yeah, there were plenty of political songs on their first two records, but those aren’t the [...]

Has it really been almost five years since I first stumbled upon The Drip’s The Wasteland EP on Grindcore Karaoke? And now they’re on Relapse and about to release their first full-length, The Haunting Fear of Inevitability. They’ve certainly come a long [...]

The seal has barely been broken on 2017, but NY black metal crew Black Anvil has already thrown us the year’s first curveball with As Was. Never a band to make the same record twice, they really seemed to hit their stride on 2014’s Hail Death. I don’t [...]