Articles by Kevin Stewart-Panko

• 

  Houwitser

  Rage Inside The Womb

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2002

  Houwitser are trying hard to convince us that they’re a sick bunch of motherfuckers. Their dalliances with super-low-tuned death/gore grind...

• 

  Mental Horror

  Proclaiming Vengeance

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2002

  This Brazilian band appear to have taken a cue from countrymen Krisiun and set out to play as fast as they can with no regard for what the...

• 

  Necrosphere

  Revived

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2002

  For Italy’s Necrosphere, I have some hope. It’s obvious they can play, have both groove and song structuring sense — picture Morbid Angel m...

• 

  Negate

  The Dead Guy Palace

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2002

  I think that anyone that’ll try and tell you that Europeans can play hardcore/noisecore better than Americans is either playing devil’s adv...

• 

  Phobia

  Serenity Through Pain

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2002

  The way I see it, when assessing a grindcore album, one shouldn’t be rooting around the record in question in search of an overtly original...

• 

  Angra

  Rebirth

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2002

  Apparently this album has already sold something in the neighbourhood of 100,000 copies worldwide, but I'm willing to wager a very large po...

• 

  Buried Inside

  Suspect Symmetry

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2002

  This Ottawa band has certainly gone all out with this release, and the high quality of the presentation and material should have hardcore k...

• 

  Burning Point

  Salvation By Fire

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2002

  Morbid curiosity has me scouring the underground for a diamond in the power metal rough. We all know that power metal is the easiest to dis...