Pat 'Riot' Whitaker August 10, 2020 DENIZEN ‘High Winds Preacher’ Album Review https://www.riffrelevant.com/2020/08/10/denizen-high-winds-preacher-album-review-stream/ Article By: Pat ‘Riot’ Whitaker ‡ Edited By: Leanne Ridgeway It is a widely shared belief that some things do actually get better with age, though I myself am not absolutely sure as to what all this would entail. There are two things that I and the general public have commonly embraced as items getting [...]

Pat 'Riot' Whitaker July 24, 2020 THAL ‘The Harvesting’ Album Review https://www.riffrelevant.com/2020/07/24/thal-the-harvesting-album-review-stream/ Article By: Pat ‘Riot’ Whitaker ‡ Edited By: Leanne Ridgeway I think I can safely admit to having dropped the ball when it came to crafting a timely review of the latest full-length album from Ohio’s THAL (The Heathens Are Loose). Entitled ‘The Harvesting‘, it was released at the end of 2019, by Overlook Hotel [...]

Pat 'Riot' Whitaker July 1, 2020 TOTAL F*CKING DESTRUCTION ‘…to be alive at the end of the world’ Album Review https://www.riffrelevant.com/2020/07/01/total-fcking-destruction-to-be-alive-at-the-end-of-the-world-review/ Article By: Pat ‘Riot’ Whitaker ‡ Edited By: Leanne Ridgeway A name like TOTAL FUCKING DESTRUCTION leaves very little, if anything, to one’s imagination… which, if I were to surmise, is the desired outcome when taking such a name. For twenty years now, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania’s finest grinders have defined the implications of their name by [...]

Dave 'Sunshine' LaMay June 25, 2020 PALE DIVINE ‘Consequence Of Time’ Album Review https://www.riffrelevant.com/2020/06/25/pale-divine-consequence-of-time-album-review-stream/ Article By: David ‘Sunshine’ LaMay ‡ Edited By: Leanne Ridgeway When I think of pure, traditional Doom, PALE DIVINE immediately and always comes to mind. For 25 years now, guitarist and vocalist Greg Diener, drummer Darin McCloskey, and a host of bassists (a spot now nicely filled by Ron ‘Fezzy’ McGinnis) have brought forth records [...]

Pat 'Riot' Whitaker June 7, 2020 THE MARLBORO MEN ‘How The West Was Lost And Other Vivid Hallucinations’ Album Review https://www.riffrelevant.com/2020/06/07/the-marlboro-men-how-the-west-was-lost-review-stream/ Article By: Pat ‘Riot’ Whitaker ‡ Edited By: Leanne Ridgeway Guitarist and multi-instrumentalist Dave Talon is a proverbial Jack-of-all-trades when it comes to exploring and participating in the creation of music. With a headlong immersion into the ethereal regions of heavy rock via Australian stoner rock legends Rollerball, to more recent forays into goth-punk metal [...]

Pat 'Riot' Whitaker May 8, 2020 THUNDERCHIEF ‘No Sufferance For Thy Fools’ Album Review https://www.riffrelevant.com/2020/05/08/thunderchief-no-sufferance-for-thy-fools-album-review-stream/ Article By: Pat ‘Riot’ Whitaker ‡ Edited By: Leanne Ridgeway As you may know, the fate of all mankind currently hangs perilously in the balance upon the violently teetering scales of Life and Death. Uncertainty reigns during the length of each day, no one seems to know any helpful absolutes, and in their stead, supposition. [...]

Pat 'Riot' Whitaker May 5, 2020 GHOST OF ALTALENA “Out Of Time” Album Review https://www.riffrelevant.com/2020/05/05/ghost-of-altalena-out-of-time-album-review-stream/ Article By: Pat ‘Riot’ Whitaker ‡ Edited By: Leanne Ridgeway There is no denying the fact that the arrival of the internet age and its ongoing evolution and expansion affords users possibilities not dreamed of previously. The accessibility to others, musicians or otherwise, and the aspect of sharing through the exchange of ideas can be [...]