It’s here! The moment you’ve all be waiting for! And instead of splitting it in half this year I decided to bombard you with one huge pile of word vomit featuring everything that got our goat in 2018. Enjoy! Because we definitely did (Links to reviews highlighted where applicable):
But first! [Read more…]
Holding off on finishing my year end list has proved fortuitous but fortunate especially when considering a new outing from Rammstein guitarist Richard Z. Kruspe’s Emigrate project imminently awaits release. The album in question, A Million Degrees (Emigrate’s third), is a late year surprise and will no doubt astound and appease restless Rammstein fans until that band returns with a new studio offering in 2019. [Read more…]
The only thing scarier than not completely understanding the words coming out of Till Lindemann’s German sung Rammstein songs is finally being able to understand them on his latest offering, Skills In Pills, which he completely sings in English. I’ll admit to not being familiar with Peter Tagtgren’s work with Hypocrisy but his work here as co-conspirator, collaborator….whatever you’d like to label him is indisputably pure magic. [Read more…]
Silent So Long, the second album from Emigrate, is akin to Soulfly’s sophomore outing in that it’s chock filled with high-profile guests that could easily overpower the band underneath. Luckily the strength of Richard Z. Kruspe’s songwriting and track sequencing skills insures that on this album, Emigrate always shines through. [Read more…]