Articles by Chris Gramlich
Gwar
Ultimate Video Gwarchive
PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2002
The knock against Gwar was always that their music was never as important as the costumes, chaos and carnage upon which they built their go...
Undisputed
Walter Hill
PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2002
With Undisputed, veteran director/screenwriter Walter Hill (The Warriors, 48 Hours, Crossroads) wastes little time in setting up a fairly s...
Eighteen Visions
Vanity
PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2002
The theory that a band's greatness is in direct proportion to the number of times the singer, in this case James Hart, screams "yeah" is st...
Ed Gein
Ed Gein
PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2002
Although nothing screams "cry for attention" like naming your band after a serial killer, not to mention one of America's most infamous, Ed...
As The Sun Sets
8949
PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2002
Surfacing like a suicide note after the body is already cold in the ground, this five-song, barely five-minute parting shot EP evokes both...
Black Widows
Stops a Beating Heart
PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2002
With the dissolution of one of the underground's most innovate sonic terrorists, the sorely missed National Acrobat, and the recent implosi...
In Pieces
Learning To Accept Silence
PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2002
The dreaded emo genre may be quickly devolving into bands that sound like R.E.M. and singer-songwriter one-man snorefests (aka contemporary...
Fantômas+Melvins Big Band
Millennium Monsterwork
PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2002
Returning with their first proper album since their twisted trilogy for Ipecac, the Melvins are again offering salvation for anyone brave e...