Aenaon \ awesome \ black metal \ fanboy love \ total boner in pants
One of the best parts about working on this site is the ability to find and speak to new musicians every day. The embarrassing fan-boy moments that involve blushing, stuttering, excessive worship, and the musical boner that no nip and tuck can conceal are avoided through email and I can present myself as not a loser with some […]
blah maybe maybe not \ Desdinova \ Green Valley Records \ progressive \ thrash
Well, this was…a bummer…a bummer’s bummer. We’ve had a lot of bands over the years here telling us what their image is all about, what it all means to them. Often it’s pretty accurate, in spite of the staleness of the tunes to be found. Desdinova is pretty clear they’re a thrash band from their […]
cold pizza best served cold \ death metal \ Decomposed \ Memento Mori \ Sweden
Swedish death metal has had its score of greats, and we need not mention any of them here because it would just be pretentious. Probably yawnsome, too, and we keep it underground, so underground. Decomposed started out with a huge leap of faith, naming themselves with such an obvious term, one already taken by at […]
cut the shit \ death metal \ power to women \ Prostitute Disfigurement \ Willowtip
Yay!!! Another cool death metal release that breaks new territory with such themes as rape, serial killing, and murder. Prostitute Disfigurement hails from the Netherlands, and granted we don’t know how quickly things change over there, but given the great strides death metal has made lately these guys no longer have an excuse to sound […]
Brutal Panda Records \ metal \ post-hardcore \ post-rock \ so awesome screw genre \ Wild Throne
Yeah, sometimes bands can blow you the feck away. Like totally. Like you look behind you and where you expect to at least see limbs there’s barely a spray of blood and miniscule chunks. If there are chunks they’re practically the same splatter as the rest of it. Blood Maker comes via way of Brutal Panda […]
Atari 2600 \ join in the suck and love it \ Top 10 Worst \ video games
Yeah, sure, it’s been done, but it’s never been done right, and in this case it’s being done again because we’re deleting the original blog. So yes, this is a rewrite of a previous article, but everyone loves these things. However, in this case, there isn’t a proper ‘top ten worst’ list for the Atari 2600. They all […]
Brutal Panda Records \ hardcore \ post-hardcore \ scream at your mom \ sludge \ Zozobra
The Zozobra (Old Man Gloom) is an enormous effigy that’s built and burnt every fall in Santa Fe, New Mexico. People use the Zozobra as symbol of ridding themselves of their gloom for the coming winter, by lighting it all on fire but essentially going on to repeat the exact same mistakes they were trying […]
black metal \ experimental \ musette \ oompah shit \ Pensées Nocturnes
Black metal is arguably the best subgenre to do absolutely weird shit in. The dark, blasphemous nature is a great medium to allow musicians to experiment in scary and bizarre ways. Bands such as Deathspell Omega, Sigh, Transcending Bizarre?, and Thy Catalfalque dominate with experimentation and pushing the limits of black metal. Pensees Nocturnes is […]
Coffins \ death metal \ doom metal \ grind \ Noothgrush
Any veteran of the doom metal scene is familiar with these two names, without a doubt. That saves us a lot of time, see, because where we’d normally spend an introductory paragraph talking background and bio, we can now use that space to write pointless nothingness like this sentence, which you will still read because […]
black metal \ Kolony Records \ metal \ progressive doom metal \ Secrets of the Sky
The best part of reviewing metal bands is finding gems here and there that help define and refine your taste in music. Secrets of the Sky with their album, To Sail Black Waters, has become an essential part of my winter playlist. With a little under 3,000 “Likes” on Facebook, they are still relatively underground but […]