An already experimental band further raising the bar is one of the most impressive feats in modern death metal. We’ve experienced this with each new Pyrrhon release, and it looks like Imperial Triumphant is
Welcome once more to Death’s Door. Wipe your feet on the mat and pull up a bone throne. It’s ugly out there. I can’t think of a time in recent memory where I’ve listened to so much death metal over a sustained period of time. There were weeks over the…
Greetings, centurions! It’s been aeons since we ventured into Death’s Vault (two years, to be exact). Grab a lantern, take one last swig from your chalice, and follow my lead. For those who forgot, here’s a refresher. Whereas Death’s Door is our monthly roundup of the latest and greatest death…
Touted as “strange and unorthodox”, Tithe are immediately at the mercy of such branding. The Portland trio do enlist the drive of grindcore, and frostbitten touches of blackened death, but really there’s nothing too out of leftfield on display. That doesn’t mean that when the band are firing on all…
It’s funny how experimental, extreme, and essentially subversive genres become just as susceptible to tropes and cliches as any other genre out there. It probably has something to do with how creativity works, that most of us need a common scaffolding from which to work, leaving the truly wild explorations…
It’s that time again. Death’s Door. Let’s go. The world is a pestilential pit of sickness, stupidity, and a very uncomfortable cocktail of anxiety, depression, and boredom. But it isn’t all bad. Death metal is awesome, and 2020 has been absolutely loaded with quality content. Month over month I’m becoming…
Denver, Colorado is a beautiful city. There are dozens of gorgeous parks, plenty of great restaurants and bars, fantastic local beer and whiskey, a vibrant outdoor culture, and all situated about 45 minutes from one of the largest and most magisterial mountain ranges on earth. I’ve lived in its metropolitan…
Let me get this out of the way up front: I can count on one hand the amount of “supergroups” that met or exceeded the expectations laid on them by the collective success of their individual parts. Most supergroups are, in my opinion, either time-wasting cash grabs or light, inconsequential…
You know Pabst Blue Ribbon? PBR? “America’s Best” since 1893? Beer of choice for hipsters and
Honestly, there’d be more to this weeks Grind My Gears if I could be fucked but I’m losing my marbles and all sense of productivity. Isn’t it just as well that there’s at least one record released in the last week that merits a full look? Bandcamp’s grind tags haven’t…