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Faith No More \ Fuck This \ geneva convention pls \ help me \ Invisible Records \ Shit \ torture
Fuck This: Faith No More – Tribute of the Year
Editor’s note: Typically we avoid first-person around here, but Mort felt that this was too personal a vendetta to put on all of us, so he’s willing to take the blame (hint, all of it). This will be part of one of our new special features, which we’re just calling “Fuck This,” and will use […]
Coil \ Cold Spring Records \ EBM \ electronic \ industrial \ Nine Inch Nails
Coil/Nine Inch Nails: Recoiled
We’ve previously called the guy running Cold Spring a God. Now we will refer to him as the thing which created God. Over the years, whenever we first started to receive submissions as we branched out into ambient, noise, and the like, everything we received from him was a gem. It seems he has an […]
hardcore \ post-hardcore \ Rock Paper Records \ The Teeth
The Teeth: Homewrecker
One of the best things to do as a music critic is take a release and stick it in without doing any research. Research should come after. Why? Because this gets all of the stereotyping out of your system, so when you prove yourself wrong you end up with a much more honest review. It’s […]
crossover \ hardcore \ minus head records \ Pasadena Napalm Division \ thrash
Pasadena Napalm Division: S/T
Stoked probably isn’t the word we’re searching for when we begin our discussion of this masterpiece to signify the bodily sensations that erupted when we heard it was going down, it was all going down. Finally, the full-length was prepared. Aflame wouldn’t cut it either, and neither would afire. This requires some sort of clever […]
Gothic \ horror \ S. F. Brownrigg \ Southern
Keep My Grave Open
Awesome title, bad, bad movie. How many times has this happened to you? A title conjures images you can’t wait to have fulfilled, only to find them ripped from you head and stomped into the ground repeatedly as a laugh track fills the air. Here’s another laugh track for you, there are some people who […]
cold spring \ dark ambient \ Schloss Tegal
Schloss Tegal: Oranur III “The Third and Final Report”
Cold Spring, the living god of dark music. Funk dat, make it the living pantheon of dark music. For all of the great material he releases, he’s also been known for re-releases, particularly of legendary underground dark ambient and industrial that both groundbreaking and genre-creating. We already reviewed Ax’s Metal Forest a few weeks ago, and […]