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cool death tree fire thing \ death blues \ Finland \ Samu Peltola \ Suicide Records
Black Royal – Firebride (Death Blues is Legit)
To be honest when I heard these guys billed as “death blues” I was like isn’t that just another name for nu-metal? Then I realized Black Royal is from Finland so that isn’t possible because, yet again, they prove the country’s quickly becoming the realm of genre-bending in metal. Too bad Finnish hardcore has […]
first-person survival horror \ Pyxton Studios \ scary priest game \ Sky Haubrich \ Steam \ survival horror \ video games
Beyond Senses (Indie Appstore Horror Throwback)
I always have some form of compelling respect for a solo developer trying to bring a dark, hellspawn of a vision to life with blood, sweat, and tears. That’s why it’s all the more of a bummer to see indie developer Sky Haubrich’s co-operative survival horror game Beyond Senses join the “dead on launch” […]
Anima Recordings \ David Fylstra \ doomgaze \ drone \ Dylan Garrett Smith \ Oregon \ ouroboros \ Portland \ seaside suicide so sad \ shoegaze
Folian – Blue Mirror (Shoegaze Ouroboros)
Folian speaks volumes about dreaminess. I mean there’s a drowned or languid body on the cover floating in or washed up from the sea with hair twisted about the fingers. That alone makes you stare down at your shoes so far you turn in on yourself like an ouroboros. Talk about deep thoughts. Well, […]
Khaos Diktator Design \ Norway \ Norwegian black metal \ Osmose Productions \ rot in bed \ Stefan Todorović
Nattverd – Styggdom (Rot in Bed Black Metal)
Rarely do I bother with straight-up, “you’ve heard this,” “I’ve heard this,” “everyone has heard this” black metal, from Norway even. The greats are mere vessels of fandom, or gone, the LPs keep getting repressed for who knows what reason, and aside from a track or two out of an entire discography, most of […]
breakcore \ dubstep \ electronic \ flesh beast without climax \ France \ glitch \ Igorrr \ Los Angeles \ MEAT DEPT. \ Metal Blade Records \ Paris
Igorrr – Very Noise (Frenetic Flesh Beast War by MEAT DEPT.)
Caught a few words on this one here on the Spinternet, and lol, “insane” and “crazy” were just two of the choice cuts from total fools who obviously have never heard of Igorrr before, duh. It’s unlikely you haven’t heard of him, but you might be wondering why I’d bother with such a name […]
blackened doom metal \ Florida \ funeral doom \ Iron Bonehead Productions \ Prevailing Darkness Designs \ Yuri Kahan
Worm – Gloomlord (Soul-Sloughing Doom)
You know you’re in for something different with this cover; it’s one of those that makes your eyes wander for hours until the details wrap around your head and constrict. Worm avoid all popularity. Their presence is thin at most and hidden in Internet fog, and more importantly their music’s a miasma that oozes […]
Caligari Records \ death punk \ Finland \ Lauri Jaakkonen \ so crude \ so puke \ so punk \ so rude
Obduktio – Ihmiskunnan Viholliset (Crude Rude Puke Punk)
I can’t recall a nice do-over of punk with some blackened crust from Finland. Most of what I get from the country with supposedly the toughest language in the world is black metal or, ugh, some of that Finnish hardcore-like-it’s-1985 scene kid blather. Obduktio was a welcome addition to my “you should listen to […]
Control (Hype is Real Psychic Warfare Game)
Reviewing video games is hard. You can’t toss out critique after brief play, it leads to score bloating. “This game looks great,” you say after two minutes, and then “but wow does it suck” after two hours. IGN review already published? Oh well. So I’ve always tried to make sure I give a complete […]
Anastasia Rodina \ languid shit \ Moscow \ post-black metal \ Russia
L’Homme Absurde – Belong (Past-Black Metal)
I’m trying to figure out why it’s so easy to like post-black metal. It seems the morphing of classic aesthetic into a dreary, introspective void just works somehow. But this type of direction has been around so long can we even call it post anymore? It’s like past-black metal now. Therein is the current […]
Canada \ for fans of \ for fans of metal \ metal \ Therese Lanz
Sleepwraith – S/T (“For Fans Of” Derivative Metal)
Now here’s a nice example of “for fans of.” Usually when I see that phrase in a promo I groan and the whole album is already in my head before I start. Sleepwraith are entirely new. You’ll find almost nothing about them aside from ramblings about this very S/T on sites like ours. That’s […]
