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atmospheric \ Chicago \ doom metal \ Drug Honkey \ experimental \ Paolo Girardi \ Transcending Obscurity
Drug Honkey – Cloak of Skies
Doom metal is a genre close to collapse, I’m more and more sure of it. It has as much redundancy currently as NY hardcore and baby boomer punk, so think about it, do you really want to keep listening to it? It’s far too hesitant to change when change is needed, and far too comfortable […]
Abhordium \ Babalon Gracphis \ black metal \ Finland \ sorry Finntroll \ the Finns are back
Abhordium – Omega Prayer (Sacrifice to Stomach Monster)
Something is up in Finland I‘m telling you right now. It’s like everyone was so sick of the mockery that is Finntroll that locals realized they needed to step it up, and instead of using gimmicks, they started to write actual music. Music you can never laugh at, music that breaks barriers, such as the recent one […]
american \ black metal \ experimental \ Fragile Branch \ noise \ noise metal \ post-black metal \ Sentient Ruin Laboratories \ Shove Records \ sludge \ the tears I shed are many \ United States \ Virginia
american – Violate and Control (Sigh, My Tears Flow)
Facebook was begging me to post something for all of you because I haven’t been. This album is why. Now and then I get hit, hard, by a revelation. Here it is. Sometimes people accept goodness on what everyone else says and assume the opinion as their own. When I first knew that american was […]
best metal \ death metal \ doom metal \ Doomentia Records \ Entrapment \ Marald van Haasteren \ Netherlands \ Pulverized Records \ Snake Oil Kassetteforlag
Entrapment – Through Realms Unseen (Corpse Compactor Metal)
Good, finally, I needed some color in my art to break up all the damn black and white on the slider. Awesome art by Marald van Haasteren. And, you know, sometimes I feel like this decaying corpse right here yeah. The weight of everything pressing down on you, you release a groan, and you’re basically like, […]
Australia \ blackened death metal \ Blood Harvest Records \ Contaminated \ death metal \ gaping pit of despair \ Stewart Cole
Contaminated – Final Man (Big Hulking Beast Metal)
I’ve been listening to this one way too much. So much that I’ve been trying to convince the band to do a special, limited-run tape and shirt combo, but to no avail. Their powers are too great to accept my grovelling as worthy enough to be printed onto glorious celluloid music strips. But that’s okay I […]
Cold Spring Records \ doom metal \ experimental metal \ khost \ noise \ sludge
khost – Governance SPECIAL EDITION
Well, folks, I mean autocrats, if you didn’t notice before because you’re new, or because it’s been so long, I’m finally getting back into production again. Deaf Sparrow has functioned as a limited-edition label before, but it’s been some time since my last release, which was a special cassette version of the album Ordained by Usurpress. […]
Agony Kings \ Alerta Antifascista Records \ black metal \ Chile \ Deadfreight of Soul \ death metal \ deathcore \ DRAGONHAMMER \ Eisenwald \ epic metal \ folk \ Galy Records \ Germany \ Hades Archer \ hardcore \ hardcore punk \ Insurrection \ Kernkraftritter Records \ Las Casas Viejas \ Limb Music \ London \ Masters of Disguise \ melodic death metal \ Merdümgiriz \ My Kingdom Music \ neo-folk \ New York \ Osi and the Jupiter \ pagan \ post-black metal \ post-metal \ power metal \ Prostitution \ punk \ quick reviews \ shoegaze \ speed metal \ United Kingdom \ Yayla
Quick Reviews – October 2017
Alright here we go with another dose of Quick Reviews you scum. Quite a variety here, though I was hard hit by the country of Germany in October for some reason, not sure why. Out of all the stuff that wasn’t as visually pleasing these are the ones that made the cut for a little […]
California \ cassette \ dark industrial \ death industrial \ Fetters \ Goth \ noise \ skeletons rule \ Sol Y Nieve
Fetters – S/T
Ah, how long it’s been since I heard some death industrial that did my body bad. But I’m running out of analogies, and also ways of self-deprecating as a form of humor and not-so-clever criticism, because I’ve said that too. So how can this be any different? How can a band making reference to binding […]
black metal \ Brooklyn \ poop \ Sibir Records \ Ustalost
Ustalost – The Spoor of Vipers (Someone Finally Dropped a Fecal Reference)
I really liked the title of this one, until I thought about it more and remembered, that, yes, this can be considered a reference to poop or sultry odors emanating from slithering beasts. Say, there’s a band name or album title, right there. Copyright Deaf Sparrow 8 November 2017, though, sorry. So can this band overcome its […]
Boston \ Brendon Flynn \ death metal \ like stop impressing me dudes \ Replacire \ season of mist \ Technical Death Metal
Replacire – Do Not Deviate (Or So They Claim)
Here’s something I’m pretty sure of now. If I say the opposite of basically everyone else out there pretending to be a critic, it’s correct. End of story. Especially with technical death metal, which, yes, this is. Boston’s Replacire I have to give credit to for staying so true to their look. Thus, Do Not Deviate […]
