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Billy Anderson \ Death Valley Driver \ metal \ sludge \ stoner
Death Valley Driver: Graveyard Dead
When we first encountered these guys a year or so ago, the disc was too old to review and well, we didn’t like it much anyway. The cover was a huge WTF with some sort of skeletal Mexican wrestler holding a mic that looked more like a computer mouse and some ghost chick under his […]
doom metal \ Greenhorn \ grunge \ post-hardcore \ sludge
Greenhorn – The Plague Doctor’s Mask EP
Nothing beats receiving a self-released hack-job that actually ends up being…awesome. “What is this?” you wonder, as you stare at what looks like a…like a…yes that is the skull of a triceratops. Wait a minute, guys, this isn’t even a plague doctor’s mask! Okay, for once, let’s not put this aside, we said, let’s take […]
death metal \ interview \ just awesome \ Pungent Stench \ reunion \ The Church of Pungent Stench
The Return of Pungent Stench (or something like it)
You know what’s great about the internet? We’ll tell you what’s great, you can connect with almost anyone you could think of if you know where to look. It’s amazing, some of us around here grew up with these guys, Pungent Stench, and at least one of us has memories of listening to Been Caught Buttering while […]
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 […]
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 […]
