Articles by Tyler Munro
Summoning
Old Mornings Dawn
PUBLISHED Jun 4, 2013
Still a two-piece, Summoning have always managed to compose grandiose, theatrical metal on a scale well beyond their means, and Old Morning...
Nails
Abandon All Life
PUBLISHED Mar 15, 2013
The aptly titled follow-up to 2010's Unsilent Death, Abandon All Life is a reminder that sometimes the only way to get heavier is to slow t...
Saint Alvia
Static Psalms
PUBLISHED Feb 19, 2013
For better or worse, Saint Alvia's latest album makes for an exhausting listen. Crafted with endless energy and enthusiasm, Static Psalms c...
Shai Hulud
Reach Beyond the Sun
PUBLISHED Feb 18, 2013
Shai Hulud's inability to maintain a consistent line-up since their landmark debut, Hearts Once Nourished with Hope and Compassion, has bee...
Weekend Nachos
Watch You Suffer
PUBLISHED Jan 22, 2013
The sludgy slow crawl is a revelation to bands like Weekend Nachos, whose latest seven-inch would be little more than a two-minute, two-son...
The Secret
Agnus Dei
PUBLISHED Oct 23, 2012
This records opens like a flaming fist to the face and doesn't slow down once it starts. The Secret have done the unthinkable on their four...
A Life Once Lost
Ecstatic Trance
PUBLISHED Oct 23, 2012
A Life Once Lost's first album in five years is more of the same rhythmic groove metal fans have come to expect from the band, but that's n...
Between the Buried and Me
The Parallax II: Future Sequence
PUBLISHED Oct 9, 2012
Between the Buried and Me didn't need to make The Parallax II: Future Sequence 73-minutes long, just like they didn't need to tease the sol...
