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black metal \ hardcore \ post-hardcore \ Regarde les Hommes Tomber \ season of mist \ sludge
Regarde les Hommes Tomber: S/T
Here we go again, time to get redundant up in this. French hardcore, especially of the post variety, dominates. It’s one of the most atmospheric, creative, and musically confrontational hotbeds in the modern scene. We were first enlightened on this subject several years ago, and since then have been continually enlightened, endlessly enlightened. We’re so […]
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 […]
black metal \ doom \ Kolony Records \ melodic \ Secrets of the Sky
Secrets of the Sky: To Sail Black Waters
As a rule of thumb, bands that include any form of the word ‘sky’ are avoided as experience has dictated that many end up being “risecore” quality bullshit metal with high school quality lyrics about played-out emotional dramas that no one gives two shits about. For whatever reason, Secrets of the Sky was given a […]
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 […]
australasia \ black metal \ Immortal Frost Productions \ post-black metal \ post-rock \ shoegaze
Australasia: Vertebra
As we found before with Australasia, the artwork doesn’t tell you so much about what to expect. It’s like a blank cover to a two-thousand-page epic masterpiece of literature. When we first came across this guy in his release Sin4tr4, there was a nice horsie on the cover, so we sadly ignored listening to it for […]
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 […]
doom \ Fist Fight in the Parking Lot \ hard rock \ metal \ Pittsburgh \ sludge
Fist Fight in the Parking Lot: Year of the Ox
We first came across Fist Fight in the Parking Lot via their self-released EP about a year or so ago. Verdict? Awesome, but unfortunately we can’t show you the proof because we’re programming the archives so they work properly due to the fact they’re in an older version of PHP no longer supported. Take our […]
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 […]
