"...recalling the Melvins' creep and crunch and Pelican's groove in equal measure" - Macdara takes on Ufomammut's Opus Primum and Opus Alter.
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"In different hands this stuff could easily become tiresome - it's a very limited palette they're working from - but Serpentine Path add enough little twists and flourishes (an unexpected tempo shift here, a weirdly contorted chord there) to keep things interesting throughout."
"...a 42-minute slab of thoroughly misanthropic and defiant death-infected doom..." - On Pain Of Death's Year Naught Doom.
"I came to their latest effort, All We Love We Leave Behind, with some trepidation. I needn't have worried, as it's their best work yet."
"Many of the tracks collapse upon themselves, unable to bear the weight of their own fury." - MacDara on Old Man Gloom's No.
"Close your eyes and you'd swear it was 1988 all over again."
"Lasse Pyykkö has an impressively deep gurgle, like a clogged sink draining." - MacDara on Effigies of Evil, the latest LP from Finland's Hooded Menace.
"The title translates roughly along the lines of 'Darkened Moon', a fitting impression of the near total absence of light contained within its 43 minutes." - MacDara gets his TRVE KVLT on with Nihill's Verdonkermaan
"What if Mogwai were fronted by Jeff Walker from Carcass?" - Horseback's Half Blood, released earlier this year on Relapse, gets the belated MacDara treatment.
"Weirdly enough for genre born out of the anarchist movement and thoroughly left-wing politics, crust punk is pretty conservative as extreme music styles go." - MacDara on Nuclear Death Terror's Chaos Reigns.