Artist: lair of the minotaur

Greetings and Salutations! Horn here, with a few more wee lil' reviews for you to scan. Please do enjoy! Cauldron- Burning Fortune: A cruder, lumbering, crusty, heavier Dokken-- whoever writes the riffs loves that fifth-chord-to-flatted-sixth thing that George Lynch does in every other Dokken song (see: "In My Dreams," "Alone Again," and "Breaking the Chains")-- I didn't realize that this single type of riff could nearly instantly take me back to watching VHS tapes of Headbanger's Ball in 1987. Track "Rapid City" is [...]

Chicago grinders Harpoon could be described as sort of the Godflesh of grind. They use a drum machine, but don't try to tell us they're disco. No shortage of vitriol at all. The songs, which have a very thrashy bent, are very much real, even if the drums are not. And hey, that's one more mouth the band doesn't have to feed! The band, who feature 7000 Dying Rats associates Toney Vast-Binder and

If you haven't seen Bay Area heavy metallers Slough Feg live yet, we must ask politely: WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU!? Shame, shame, shame you haven't witnessed one of the best live bands in any damn genre of music. The quartet, led by metal life and philosophy professor Mike Scalzi, ooze so much twin lead majesty that even Scott Gorham and Brian Robertson would rock out with envy. Folks in Chicago,

by theseseans (NYC)In an effort to defend against Andy's massive output of show reviews recently, I am going to two shows this weekend, both of which are being put on by Brooklyn Vegan. First up is Saturday night when Narrows hit the city for a one off show at the Cake Shop. This is not a show to miss! The band is composed of members from across the globe (show is a go, volcano or no) and live

I've seen The Binary Code live a bunch of times, and they just keep getting better and better and better. They could always play, but they've really come into their own as performers; I feel like I've watched them go from a caterpillar to a butterfly! A total wicked butterfly that plays awesome progressive technical [...]

It's a busy season for new metal, but we all need to make sure that Lair of the Minotaur's Evil Power doesn't get lost amid the plethora of excellent new releases this month. It's an apt title – the record really does sound like it's running on Durahell batteries. I've yet to hear a Lair of [...]

New video from Lair of the Minotaur for the title track of their new record Evil Power. According to the Deciblog, the minotaur mask is a custom made taxidermy-ed Spanish bull's head. If you work at a stuffy corporate office, wait till you get home to watch this.

Bob Cock loves Wolf and we love Bob Cock, but coming on the heels of Lair of the Minotaur's latest cinemetallic opus, Wolf's video for "Hail Cesar" gets a massive "meh." The concept isn't really clear - performance footage is intercut with behind-the-scenes footage which is intercut with clips from old gladiator movies, for no [...]

Lair of the Minotaur must be a bunch of really fucked up dudes; they seem to be obsessed with brutal videos depicting gruesome violence against women. Either that or they just know that sensationalist blogs like this one will always link to a video involving metal, violence, gore and boobies. Probably the latter. And at that, [...]

The Pope has a new entry into his top ten list. Yeah, I know it's only March as of the writing of this piece, but when an album punches you repeatedly in the face, kidney region, and groin area a hundred and sixty-two times before it's made one complete revolution, then by default, said album has effectively muscled it's way in. Lair of the Minotaur . Evil Power . Metal, metal, and more metal! Not since Skeletonwitch 's Breathing the Fire have I listened to an album that has felt so damned immediate, and folks, [...]

Lair of the Minotaur - Evil Power I think the typography of the Evil Power text is a bit weird, but the painting is rather sinister.

Back in January, Mayhem announced a tour with some ridiculously awesome support acts, including Ludicra, Krallice, and Tombs; then, in true Mayhem fashion, they cancelled the tour just a couple of weeks later. And I think pretty much everyone had the same reaction: "Ludicra, Krallice, and Tombs should just tour without Mayhem." Because it was [...]

LAIR OF THE MINOTAUR. This band is so heavy, just typing their name makes my fingers hurt. This band is so metal they can't travel by plane, 'cause they set all the alarms off when they try to go through security. True story, that. ANYWAY, the band has announced the forthcoming release of a new album, [...]

Chicago grind freaks HARPOON are gearing up for a week-long mini-tour that will see them puncturing their Midwestern safety bubble and taking their intense live show on the road. They'll be starting things off with a bang (or, more likely, a very, very heavy "ohhhhhhhhhm") supporting hooded drone druids SUNN 0))), then continuing eastward towards [...]

A couple friends and I drove from Chicago to Baltimore in a car with leather seats and no air conditioning, blaring metal so loud we could hear it with all the windows open while doing eighty down the Pennsylvania turnpike. We took turns plugging our mp3 players into the tape adapter and playing songs [...]

Saying your metal band's got "The Bloodiest Music Video Ever" is kind of like saying your metal band's new album is the most br00tal, pummeling, and best work to date; it's certainly possible but we hear that shit all the time, and mostly it ends up being a load of crap. So if your label [...]

Morbid Tails Shana (aka Shana Emfurry) Shana is a four year-old Collie/Shepherd mix. She was rescued from a local pet shelter, and her name is a cross between Shaun of the Dead and Shane Embury because she has a big appetite. Her favorite bands are High on Fire, Lair of the Minotaur, and Mastodon because they wrote songs about wolves ("Speedwolf," "The Wolf," and "The Wolf is Loose," respectively). She considers herself a Wolf in her Throne [...]

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by theseseans (NYC)This is by far the most ridiculous video I have ever seen. Well, at least since that equally ridiculous Lair of the Minotaur video. It's so fucking ridiculous I feel the need to actually tell you about it despite the fact that you can watch it just as easily.Kreator begins playing in a desolate land, enter large, mostly naked man (seriously, did anyone, ever, ever just walk

File this under: Best News Ever. The madmen behind Maryland's goriest, circlepittiest, most blastbeat-engulfed metal festival have announced plans to include a second stage, featuring a proposed lineup of fifty (count 'em, fifty!) crazy-awesome bands. Ten have already been announced, with many more to come. Worried about being forced to make that agonizing choice between your favorite [...]

Before their Spring show at NYC's Knitting Factory with The Ocean, Kylesa and Withered, Axl, Vince and Kip triple-teamed Lair of the Minotaur mastermind Steven Rathbone to ask him questions about his band, their new album, the motivation behind their fantasy-tinged lyrics, and of course the band's ridiculous BEST MUSIC VIDEO EVAAAR (warning: NSFW) for [...]