Articles by Mark Tremblay
Cell Press Refine the Sludge on 'Cages'
PUBLISHED Mar 12, 2024
An album that prides itself on being an old school sludge-fest and manages to deliver the goods from start to finish...
Big Pit Beat Their Own Path on 'Bend in the Rift'
PUBLISHED Feb 14, 2024
Big Pit’s 'Bend in the Rift' is all about honouring the past while pushing forward into the future...
Fearbirds' 'Aux Blood' Roils with Promise
PUBLISHED Feb 5, 2024
'Aux Blood' appears straightforward, but give it some time and it reveals the complicated currents roiling just below the surface...
Thantifaxath Plunge into the Depths on 'Hive Mind Narcosis'
PUBLISHED Jun 2, 2023
Hive Mind Narcosis is an album of dueling identities. On the one hand, the album features bleak and cold elements of black metal. On the ot...
Phantom Lung's 'Abhorrent Entity' Is an Unrelenting Ride
PUBLISHED Feb 28, 2023
Phantom Lung harken back to a golden period of death metal/grindcore in Canadian music. Following in a similar vein to that of Ion Dissonan...
They Grieve Come to the Light on 'To Which I Bore Witness'
PUBLISHED Feb 21, 2023
The best kept secret in Ontario's doom metal scene, They Grieve — the project of Gary Thibert and Deniz Guvenc, of Alaskan and Stay Here re...
BIG|BRAVE Channel Trauma into Punishingly Heavy Music
PUBLISHED Feb 17, 2023
Over the course of seven studio albums, BIG|BRAVE have carved out an unconventional career as a heavy band. Guitarists Mathieu Ball and Rob...
Pile Write New Stories on 'All Fiction'
PUBLISHED Feb 15, 2023
Over the course of their first seven albums, Pile have developed the particular brand of dissonant yet melodic rock that fans have come to...