Album Review: Pit Lord — 'Massive Grilling Capacity' - Little Village

Album Review: Pit Lord — 'Massive Grilling Capacity' - Little Village

There is a persistent conflict in heavy metal: that of silliness versus profound seriousness. Extreme metal sees the most self-serious, philosophical bands win critical favor and masked bands are, again, taking the top of the charts. The most complex and challenging musicians in the metal sphere are still prone to wearing corpse paint, writing songs about murder or weed, or pushing nihilism to hyperbolic extremes. Thankfully, there is a sweet sp…

Heirs to a Violent World: Pit Lord's “Massive Grilling Capacity”

Death metal has roots in numerous bands and places, most significantly in the humid, blood-soaked, stimulant-crazed state of Florida, a peninsula cursed since the days of the Spaniards, if not before. Its tentacles have spread across the globe, including to the poisoned wastes of Iowa, which brings us to the subject of this article.