awful Archive
06 Mar 2020
Lord Sutch and Heavy Friends at 50
Scattered among the history of pop and rock music are the occasional oddities: albums made by those whose circumstances or talents in a particular area might not quite have suited […]
23 Jul 2010
DVD Review: Paul McCartney Really Is Dead – The Last Testament of George Harrison
To the Irish author Brendan Behan goes the attribution of a quote which reads in part, “There is no such thing as bad publicity…” In light of the possible status […]
18 Apr 2009
Album Review: War of Ages — Fire from the Tomb
Onward Christian soldiers! War of Ages’ latest offering, Fire from the Tomb may be the worst thing I have ever heard, and that’s saying a lot (I saw Styx on […]
17 Apr 2009
Album Review: Vaeda — State of Nature
The debut full-length from this trio is tightly and expertly played, passionately sung, flawlessly produced…and boring as hell. There’s not a single thing here we haven’t heard a hundred times […]
01 Apr 2009
Album Review: Memphis May Fire — s/t
As a card-carrying Pastafarian, I pray every day to the Flying Spaghetti Monster that I am delivered from the random assignment of reviewing Christian hardcore CDs. I simply don’t get […]
30 Mar 2009
Album Review: Mah Jongg – Kontpab
Boy, does this album suck. Nothing much happens musically for the first two and a half minutes of the nearly six-minute “Pontiac.” Listening to it is like wandering into a […]
11 Mar 2009
Album Review: Cradle of Filth — Thornography
This is some very silly music. The first track “Under Pregnant Skies She Comes Alive Like Miss Leviathan,” comes in with a bombastic movie-soundtrack vibe, all robed-choruses and scratching cellos. […]