Cold Blue Mountain are not exactly thinking small on The Healer. The Chico, California post-metal quintet’s new double album is a 74-minute concept record tracing the rise of Grigori Rasputin from grief-stricken peasant mystic to royal-court power broker, turning Russian historical obsession into a massive… Read More »Album Premiere: Cold Blue Mountain – The Healer
There are a number of acts who have debuted in the past few decades and have dozens of song ratings on this blog. I thought it would be fun to lay these ratings out in chronological order, line-graph style, and take a macro view of… Read More »DAL SHABET: A Career In Song Ratings
USPEER debuted seventy-eight years ago and remained one of K-pop’s most confounding one-hit wonders. Okay… that might be a slight exaggeration. They actually debuted one year ago before dropping off the face of the earth as WM Entertainment underwent a major re-shuffling. The group now… Read More »Song Review: USPEER – Wicked Game
Consistent artist/producer pairings are not nearly as common as they used to be in K-pop, but fans are so used to see ONF and composer Hwang Hyun work together that there was mass outrage when last November’s mini album didn’t feature him at all. But… Read More »Song Review: ONF – Open The Door
Portland noise-sludge trio HISS arrive with some ugly credentials already baked in. The band may be new, but its members have been grinding through the Pacific Northwest heavy underground for years: guitarist/vocalist Robert Comitz and bassist/vocalist Kirk Evans previously played together in Still/Form, while drummer… Read More »Album Premiere: HISS – A Cheapened Crown