Live review: Nile, Immolation, Krisiun, Dreaming Dead @ House of Blues
Photos and review by Cosmo Lee Stage right, House of Blues: that was the place to be in Hollywood last Tuesday. Either that, or the Ozzy Osbourne book signing down the street. For all the human effluent on its sidewalks, I am always surprised to find anything good on the Sunset Strip. Amid the rock...
Impetuous Ritual - Relentless Execution of Ceremonial Excrescence
. . . Vocabulary words in the lyrics to Relentless Execution of Ceremonial Execrescence (Profound Lore, 2009): acephalism conglutinate defalcate effigous embryologic hecatombic hypermetropicism inanition minatory sempiternal No sing-alongs at shows — ever. Impetuous Ritual are the rhythm section of Portal (interviewed here). They don’t have much rhythm. They sound like Portal con más cojones....
Wolvhammer - EP's
Photo by DeGross Punk PhotographyText by Cosmo Lee PR is not something most nascent bands worry about. Their first concerns are usually stable lineups, local shows, and maybe a demo or two. But right out of the box Wolvhammer got called “racists,” which led to the requisite Internet damage control. The issue was this: the...