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acid jazz \ free-form jazz \ I Voidhanger Records \ Kaneko Tomiyuki
Neptunian Maximalism – Éons (TRASH TRASH TRASH STFU)
I’m probably going to get some shit for this one but oh well, that’s typical. And like usual I seem to be the only person in the world who can see through the haze of “woah so different.” I laugh hard when I see glittering generalities written about stuff like this. Hypnotic. Not interested […]
Goth \ Poland \ posi-punk \ post-punk \ synthwave
Wędrowcy~Tułacze~Zbiegi – Berliner Vulkan (Polish Synth Noir)
Wasn’t sure what to expect with this one what with the blue skull hipster thing and the fact that Wędrowcy~Tułacze~Zbiegi (WTZ for short) is listed as, lol, black metal and experimental on some shit sites. I’ve also seen vain attempts at calling this “post-black metal” but you just can’t toss that around any old […]
horror video game \ Metroidvania \ Spain \ Team17 Digital Ltd \ The Game Kitchen \ video games
Blasphemous (Foul Metroidvania Inquisition Murder Game)
Yeah wow. Let’s just make that the review; save you some time. Not me though because it took me like 15 minutes to write that. And it will take you about a million times that to fully conquer everything in this masterfully foul Spanish entry into the metroidvania genre, Blasphemous. It’s rare I find […]
Caligari Records \ Keith Caves \ Pennsylvania \ Pittsburgh \ rotting death metal \ Steel & Bone Productions \ war metal
Ritual Mass – Abhorred in the Eyes of God (Some Death Metal Again)
Let’s finish off my choice cuts in music this week with some rotting death metal. Angry, masculine vocals, visions of torment, riffs that sound like new songs the second way through (even though there are only four tracks), etc. There’s no better way to unwind, now and then. Like a mutually-agreed-upon backyard boxing match, […]
Caligari Records \ heavy metal \ Italy \ Mariya Popyk
Marthe – Sisters of Darkness (I Believe in Heavy Metal Again)
Sometimes something so short and simple can be so freaking powerful. Though calling this a demo is a bit inapplicable to what is really a beyond-EP length freaking beast out of nowhere. Heavy metal, doom, and all that sort of thing are so often beaten into the ground by the templates utilized by most […]
England \ industrial black metal \ Lore Breaker Records \ United Kingdom
Zebadiah Crowe – Host Rider (Non-Sucking Ministry Black Metal)
I had no idea what I was in for with this. It could have went so many ways and even the way it goes has me confused, lol. Metallum has Zebadiah Crowe pathetically listed as “black metal” and that sounds to me that whoever made the entry just gave up and said “well this […]
Blood Harvest Records \ Cincinnati \ Lucas Ruggieri \ melodic black metal \ Ohio
Valdrin – Effigy of Nightmares (Complexities of Melodic Black Metal)
Hmm have I ever listened, or rather, cared about melodic black metal on here before? I can’t remember, honestly, so whatever. Valdrin come from the asphalt wastes of Ohio, where the highway tolls look like they were built in the 1960s but they’re unfortunately charging 3020 fees. Where large, pointless fields of corn open […]
Carpenter Brut \ cheese \ horror \ sci-fi \ Seth Ickerman \ Shudder \ synthwave
Blood Machines (Vapid Sci-Fi Horror Synth Cheese)
Those uninitiated in synthwave and unfamiliar with one of the forefathers of the genre, Carpenter Brut, can now be exposed to it all through bloody 80s nostalgia with the release of Blood Machines on Shudder. The three episode “epic” by Seth Ickerman involves the discovery of an entity who escapes her spaceship, turning into […]
Pagan Records \ Poland \ raw black metal \ rotten black metal
Mordhell – Graveyard Fuck (Unwashed Human Body Black Metal)
This is one of those albums where you’re like “whelp, here we go,” because it absolutely does not give two shits how you feel and it’s telling you immediately what it’s about. It does it in a fairly open, yet peaceful way as well. The title’s clear, but the cover, which only hints at […]
grindcore \ Jef Whitehead \ Oregon \ Portland \ powerviolence \ Tartarus Records
Tithe – Penance (No One Will Like You Metal)
At first I was getting annoyed by all the Jef Whitehead covers I was seeing in 43% of the promos I’ve had come in (that’s exact math) and then I scoped this one and was like “okay, I get it.” What a perfect arrangement! And what a great example of how cover art can […]
