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Ancient Battle Records \ atmospheric \ Caldera \ doom \ France \ Silent Hill references are always a success
Caldera – Centralia EP
Out of any musical genres out there, doom metal bands always seem to get it right when it comes to the naming process. It’s not like that absolute glut of stupidity during the nineties where everything was tagged as “alternative” even though there were like fifty different types of music. But they all had this […]
death metal \ Generichrist \ Horror Pain Gore Death Productions \ screw dat we need no tags bizootches
Generichrist – Taste of Death
We just love being confused, it’s good for our blood. In fact, you know, write this down, if something’s hard to pin down with a genre and you feel like a hack when you pull out some band comparisons because you completely lack the writing skills to explain it otherwise, it’s going to be good. […]
Destroy All Gondolas \ destroy the filthy fascist gondola canals \ hardcore \ Italy \ punk \ Satan rools \ Satanism \ Venice
Interview with Destroy All Gondolas (Light the Filth Canals on Fire)
Nothing beats digging around and discovering something like these guys, Italy’s Destroy All Gondolas, who we reviewed several weeks ago. As soon as that first track opened we were tossed into the waves of a polluted surf, run over by crazed speed punks that played their instruments like surf rockers who prefer gas huffing to […]
Blastafuk \ grind \ grindcore \ ground meat we want to eat \ real grind \ The Kill
The Kill – Kill Them…All
Typically, especially over the past five years, any time we’ve received a promo from a band that labels itself “grindcore”, it’s practically already set to become kindling, a Goodwill donation that sits there for years, or something just to destroy and take one’s anger out on in a time of need. Seriously, rule of thumb, […]
ambient \ black metal \ Distraction Recrods \ doom \ drone \ glitch \ Necro Deathmort \ we have been awakened
Necro Deathmort – EP2
We’re bandnamecist around here, completely coolnamesupremacist. Cool name power. Please understand, we were raised this way, or rather, we raised ourselves in such a way that we expect the best, not the better-than-most, the best. And that’s what our readers expect. Necro Deathmort is a name we’ve actually heard before, but honestly we ignored it […]
B-movie \ disgusting filth pile of disgust \ giallo \ horror \ No Visible Scars \ sludge punk \ Twist Ending
Twist Ending – Demo 2014
Alright, enough of this popularity game. We shouldn’t even need to discuss a band’s level of fame in the first place, nor defend our reasons for reviewing something of “the above”. So we are below, so we shall stay, most of the time. What better way than music that incorporates practically everything one could desire […]
agonia records \ black metal \ DSBM \ forgotten tomb \ nihilistic \ shiny and new but full of hate \ suicidal
Forgotten Tomb – Hurt Yourself And The Ones You Love
If there’s one hard sell in black metal, it’s the kind further delineated through words like ‘suicidal’, ‘hateful’ (and or ‘misanthropic’), or perhaps ‘depressing’. DSBM is usually an instant soul killer for most, no matter the level of anti-depressants in your blood. You could be filled with months of mood-numbing psychotropics and it wouldn’t make […]
a day of doubles \ Barren Womb \ Grizzlor \ noise noise \ noise punk \ noise rock \ punk punk \ Riotous Outburst Records \ rock rock \ splitting headache
SPLITting Headache – Grizzlor / Barren Womb
Why, you know, since we get splits now and again we figured, why not make a cool new feature out of it? We have a VS feature, but that’s reserved for two bands from the same label, or two albums from the same band. This is not a competition, this is an exposition of all […]
autocrat 4 lyfe \ Ello is for plebes \ Facebook \ get pro \ get underground \ screw you \ social media \ sucks
Facebook Likes Disappearing? Here’s Why (The Depraved Business of Social Media)
In an era where click-bait articles are spread around based completely on headlines, when Buzzfeed is considered to be legit social criticism by people with a straight face, and where billions of depressed, mindless automatons ignore reality by watching videos of dogs falling off of chairs and couches, social media dominates. It’s an escape, a […]
Blood Music \ dark snythwave \ electronica \ Gost \ not the worst \ only the best \ the best
GosT – Behemoth
This is getting close to GosT overload for this year, Christ. If you haven’t noticed, we’ve been GosT fanatics for several months, after his compatriot Perturbator dropped a line about him. So first we checked out his S/T last year, and then we moved on to an awesome interview with the skull-headed, dark synthwave […]
