Music Reviews

DESPISED ICON - The Healing Process

June 5 2005 // Magazine // Music Reviews

By Korgüll The Destroyer - Metal for Supper - The Afternoon Edition - 04/05/2005

This is one intense album. Local band Despised Icon’s latest album, The Healing Process, is some of the most brutal music to come out of the city since Cryptopsy. Come to think of it, the two bands have several things in common: both are from Montreal, both are signed to Century Media, and both manage to keep their sound from becoming mindless, mind-numbing brutality by injecting a high degree of technical skill into their music. The similarities end there, however.

JO ANN DAUGHTERY - Range of Motion

May 27 2005 // Magazine // Music Reviews

By Christopher Bussmann - Bop and Beyond - 06/07/2005

Jo Ann Daugherty's debut album Range of Motion is a stunning surprise from a tiny jazz label out of Chicago called BluJazz. Chicago once was, and still is, one hell of a jazz town. The Chicago scene is one of the few old bastions of jazz still thriving in North America. From venerable elders like Von Freeman to upstarts like young Ms. Daugherty here, the jazz currently coming out of Chicago is well worth checking out.

FISCHERSPOONER - Odyssey

May 3 2005 // Magazine // Music Reviews

By Dan - Rocks In Your Head - 04/05/2005

Okay, admittedly this is not a full, encompassing review. I have neither the time nor the urge to do a full review. So instead, I'll hit you kids up with a two-part review, splitting this new Fischerspooner CD in half. Here goes part 1:

(Get your mofo booty on the dance floor, people!)

That should be the entire review, but I'll flesh it out a little for your reading pleasure.

GHOULUNATICS - Blood Curdling Years (DVD)

April 17 2005 // Magazine // Music Reviews

By Johnny - Turn Down the Suck - 05/03/2005

Ghoulunatics’ Blood Curdling Years is the first DVD by a Quebec metal band and it sets the bar high. Containing one full show, half of another, bits of 60 others, two videos, lots of photos, and a slew of backstage/behind the scenes/making of/on the road/etc footage, this disc delivers both quantity and quality.

PUNGENT STENCH - Ampeauty

April 7 2005 // Magazine // Music Reviews

By Brendan O'Flaherty - Catatonia Shall Prevail - 02/22/2005

Over a decade ago, when death metal as a genre was in desperate need of something fresh and original, Pungent Stench provided something simultaneously brutal, fast, funny, sick, perverted and groovy to enthrall us with. Well, the perverted Austrians are at it again and they continue to excel at conceiving art that’s both sick and fetishistic with this new platter of sludgy death n’ roll, cleverly titled Ampeauty.

SHARON JONES AND THE DAP-KINGS - Naturally

March 30 2005 // Magazine // Music Reviews

By Christopher Bussmann - Bop and Beyond - 01/25/2005

MILES DAVIS - A Tribute To Jack Johnson (reissue)

March 18 2005 // Magazine // Music Reviews

By Christopher Bussmann - Bop and Beyond

KREATOR - Enemy Of God

March 10 2005 // Magazine // Music Reviews

By Korgull The Destroyer - Metal for Supper - The Afternoon Edition - 01/11/2005

Kreator seem to have given up on experimenting with their sound and have once again opted for the straightforward thrash metal style that they are known for. You can decide for yourself if this is a good thing or not, but bottom line is that it worked very well for them on Violent Revolution and it has worked for them once again with their latest album, Enemy of God.

PATTON & KAADA - Romances

March 8 2005 // Magazine // Music Reviews

By Emilie - 11/30/2004

HIGH ON FIRE - Blessed Black Wings

February 23 2005 // Magazine // Music Reviews

By Robot - No Sleep Til Bedtime - 02/01/2005

I thought I’d better review this one before somebody else at CJLO does, ‘cause it’s looking like it’s gonna be the hottest record in the Metal department for at least a month, and I bet at least a few rock/punk/alt shows will be playing it (I can name names).

IMMORTAL - Sons of Northern Darkness

January 23 2005 // Magazine // Music Reviews

By Alex Robot - No Sleep Til Bedtime

For the record, CJLO’s Korgull the Destroyer (from Metal for Supper, Thursdays 2-4pm) bought this album when it first came out. I mercilessly made fun of both him AND the three corpse-painted clowns on the cover, brandishing medieval weapons and spiky armor. I knew these guys had a killer rep, but I assumed it was similar to the praise lavished on the over-rated Burzums of the Black Metal world, guys who are more renowned for their gimmicks and criminal records than their music.

PIG DESTROYER - Terrifyer

January 20 2005 // Magazine // Music Reviews

By David Caporicci-Urovitch - No Sleep Til Bedtime - 10/12/2004

FROM A SECOND STORY WINDOW - Not One Word Has Been Omitted

January 20 2005 // Magazine // Music Reviews

By David Caporicci-Urovitch - No Sleep Til Bedtime - 03/01/2004

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