Release Day Roundup – 3/29/19
Each month, we always seem to come to the same conclusion when it comes to our Editors’ Picks column: Friday release days open the floodgates and unleash a seemingly endless stream of... Read More...
Magic Circle – Departed Souls
2019 is still young, but there’s a few things you can say
about music releases so far this year. There have been very few big releases so
far, but there are a few trends you can see. Traditional sounding metal... Read More...
Doomsday – March 2019
Greetings unto thee, heaviest of Heavy Bloggers! Welcome to
the end of Q1 for Riff Lords, Inc. I am Pete, here as always with your monthly
presentation of doom economics. 2019 has slowly been ramping up the re... Read More...
Innumerable Forms – Punishment In Flesh
It’s difficult to extricate new death metal records in 2018 from the context of time and place. While many (including myself) found 2017 to be an absolute treasure trove of death metal goodness that might be un... Read More...
Far From Light – The Taxonomy of The Traditional Metal Revival
Welcome back to our Taxonomy series, where we break down umbrella genres like progressive metal, post rock and doom metal and outline all of the progressions and sub-genres that have matriculated over the past ... Read More...