Home » 2015 » December
black metal \ Déluge \ France \ French is best \ hardcore \ Les Acteurs de L'Ombre Productions \ oui \ post-black metal \ post-hardcore \ Valnoir
Déluge – Æther
This was something long awaited, because we, as well as only a few others, realize that France is where it’s happening for two genres: post-black metal and post-hardcore. There are no equals to the power of France, and there will never be, at least not at the moment. We’ve had our tastes of the greats […]
Apocalyptic Witchcraft Recordings \ australasia \ black metal \ post-black metal \ rotting Southern porches we reckon \ shoegaze
Australasia – notturno
There’s a certain power in experience, in all of those things one encounters throughout life, inevitably leading on a path to becoming an amateur, then perhaps expert. Between the amateur and the expert is a land of ruin, it’s far better to think you know what you’re talking about than to almost know. You, of […]
Argento Records \ death \ doom \ fakky as filth \ filthy as fak \ Grime \ Italy \ sludge \ sludge metal
Grime – Circle of Molesters
Sludge is an interesting genre. It’s something like grindcore, but with way less blast beats to cover up crap riffs, and more of a groove. As such, one can consider it grindcore gone meinstreem, or perhaps better to say a genre that can capture the attention of more than a distinct few weirdos who only […]
another sampling of plastic lust \ Cassette Assault \ doom metal \ funeral doom \ Intercourse \ noise rock \ powerviolence \ punk \ Sea Witch \ stoner \ Strange Broue \ Utu
CASSETTE ASSAULT – Speed it Up, Slow it Down!
Yes, you are correct, it’s that time again. Time to pull out the altar that is your tape deck, whatever its size, whatever its age, though we prefer original hardware. In fact, you know what, you’re out of the cult if you don’t have a deck from the 1980s, so check it right now. Good? […]
black metal \ Blood Music \ classical \ death metal \ England \ funeral doom \ grotesque \ Lychgate \ no tags to make fun of this one
Lychgate – An Antidote for the Glass Pill
Gawd we really needed something new, something unique, something spectacularly bizarre. Open the curtains, lead us into a crypt musically, scribe before us with aural might a portrait of the macabre. We seek to be transported through dark corridors dripping in mildew, to smell the dried marrow of ages of death under our feet, oh […]
Chicago \ dangling prepositions \ experimental \ Hell Comes Home Records \ metal \ Scientist \ too many genres to count or make sense of
Scientist – 10100II00101
Recently I haven’t had much willpower to do any reviews of new bands. I’ve been too busy embracing Mories from Gnaw Their Tongues, Cloak of Altering, and Aderlating among many other bands as my God. Somehow he keeps churning out great releases like his split with Dragged Into Sunlight and Cloak of Altering’s latest release, Manifestation. As […]
agonia records \ black metal \ France \ post-black metal \ that's all you need to know duh \ VI
VI – De Praestigiis Angelorum
Well we had fun this week posting a bunch of stupid crap on Facebook to see how social media works. Our conclusion? It’s fueled by utter stupidity. As the activity climbed, we realized the most boring of us are more interested in crap memes and stupid, catchy phrases, which honestly we kind of took and […]
better punk \ good punk \ Heat Dust \ new punk \ punk \ The Flenser Records
Heat Dust – S/T
It might not seem like it, but we do receive punk submissions pretty frequently. They just all suck, hard, and aren’t even worth a negative review because they’re typically so typical they deserve nothing more than silence. Suffice to say it takes something especially tasty or tedious for us to put it up on here, for […]
black metal \ chaos \ chaotic chaos \ chaotically chaotic chaos \ chosingly chatoically aoijoiajsdoifjas \ India \ Iron Bonehead Productions \ Tetragrammacide
Tetragrammacide – Typhonian Wormholes: Indecipherable Anti-Structural Formulæ
We’ve had our sampling of the bizarre in the past year, especially that which can be deemed genre-bending, chaotically forged, is-this-reality metal. We’re living in a world of chaos these days, so perhaps it’s all a symbol of the collapse of the human race, a look into the future when eventually everything is meaningless and […]
