Black County Communion was poised to become one of my favorite groups of the 2010s. Their brand of Zeppelin-influenced rock was especially authentic thanks to the statuses of its contributors, and I still view their second album as an underrated classic. [...]
When you think of bloated double albums, I’ll bet money that the Use Your Illusions by Guns N’ Roses are the first ones that come to mind. It was understandable for the long-awaited follow-up to the iconic Appetite for Destruction to consist of two fully [...]
The Midnight Ghost Train’s decade long love of ferocious riffs and explosive live shows has made them a favorite band among the stoner rock crowd, but the Topeka group has always asserted themselves as merely being an especially loud blues band. They’ve [...]
With a title as confrontational as The Great American Death Rattle, one can expect the third full-length by Youngblood Supercult to be a more abrasive affair than their past efforts. In some respects, this is certainly the case; the production is quite [...]
With the release of Avatarium’s third full-length album, it’s becoming harder to label them as a straight female-fronted doom metal band. The guitar tone is still heavy and the atmosphere is darkly esoteric, but the group’s lighter influences are even [...]
The 2010s have been a rather rocky time for Danzig. 2010’s Deth Red Sabaoth was a great way to kick things off and the band has miraculously not had a single lineup change through the whole decade, but any signs of momentum were squandered when Evil Elvis [...]
At the risk of sounding a little weird, I forget the last time I ever heard of case where a band switched out a female vocalist for a male one instead of the other way around. Cruthu of Lansing, Michigan is one such example as this phenomenon: their [...]
The countdown of my top favorite albums of 2016 continues! While past years would have the 15-11 spots serve as honorable mentions, these are all highly great albums worthy of being mentioned in the same breath as the best. This section ended up being the [...]
