Looking back at some of my reviews of 2008 I can’t help but express how much I hate doing reviews sometimes. Sometimes you get excited for a newly released cd and love it for the first couple listens. Some are great cds with good sound but then later on you read what others stated in their reviews and second guess your own opinion. Some are great at the first listen but don’t hold a lasting effect that a good cd needs in order to make it a truly good release. Some take some time to sink in before you …read more

The Funeral Pyre’s ‘Wounds’ will be released on May 27th. Southern California’s The Funeral Pyre have put together a complex yet simple audio assault of melodic death/black metal sound with ‘Wounds’, the follow up to The Nature Of Betrayal. With a furious mix of guitars and heavy bass drums it has a sound that I would compare to Dissection and vocals similar to the Skeletonwitch’s Chance Garnett’s higher toned vocals or Abbath from Immortal. I said similar not ‘like’ or ‘just like’.
For ‘Wounds‘, the band has put the keyboards of the former years behind them and went with …read more