Top Ten Albums of 2015 By Mike Bax Year by year, I take in a lot of music that spans multiple genres. I tend to be unaffected by hype, despite being bombarded by emails from publicists hyping music. I rely more on the input of my friends, my personal tastes in music, crowd-funding and an…
Tag: Riding Easy Records
Windhand – Studio at Waiting Room, Buffalo, NY – October 22nd, 2015
Review and Photos by Mike Bax With one of the best releases of 2015 (Grief’s Infernal Flower, Relapse Records), Windhand set out on the road last week to support the album, taking Danava and Monolord along for the ride as their support. This evening’s show at the very intimate setting of the upper studio at…
Monolord – Vænir review
Riding Easy Records Review by Mike Bax Soooo fucking good!! Hm. Maybe a little more than that, yes? When guitar player and vocalist Thomas Jäger (Marulk), drummer Esben Willems (Marulk) and bassist Mika Häkki (Rotten Sound) got together in 2013 and unleashed Empress Rising upon unsuspecting masses, the album was universally lauded among doom-metal enthusiasts…