Have critics become irrelevant?
Google Images search result #1 for “critic” Sometimes I question why I write about music. Given what’s coming out these days, I often wonder what’s the point. Take, for example, the last five bands that got a review rating of three or below (out of ten) in Decibel: Suicide Silence, Molotov Solution, Psychostick, Iwrestledabearonce, and...
Beherit - Engram
Beherit has always been about the primitive. The Oath of Black Blood and Drawing Down the Moon pulverized black metal into lo-fi scree. H418ov21.C and Electric Doom Synthesis, solo projects of mastermind Marko Laiho, were ham-fisted amalgams of Casio tones and TR-909 percussion. This evolution recalls Burzum, though Beherit’s black metal was better and its...