Articles by Mark Tremblay
Anciients Stick to What They Do Best on 'Beyond the Reach of the Sun'
PUBLISHED Aug 27, 2024
Anciients were at the forefront of Canadian metal music after the release of their second album 'Voice of the Void'...
Fuck the Facts Returned Anew in Toronto
Rivoli, May 10
PUBLISHED May 11, 2024
After an eight-year absence, Ottawa grindcore powerhouses Fuck the Facts returned to Toronto. Since the band's inception in 1997, they've b...
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...
