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death metal \ Jason Barnett \ Memento Mori \ Oregon \ Petrification \ Portland \ Sentient Ruin Laboratories
Petrification – Hollow of the Void (Petrified Trees Metal)
It’s that time of year where I just need a little bit of this. Mainly because I hate poplar trees, see there’s one outside of my house and I just want to chop it the hell down. A tree joke? I’m not sure the band thought so hard about their name, see. The process of trees turning […]
Assumption \ death metal \ doom metal \ Everlasting Spew Records \ floating guy equals you \ Italy \ Lauri Laaksonen \ Sentient Ruin Laboratories
Assumption – Absconditus (Don’t Try Too Hard Metal)
What a curious name for a metal band. I can tell you I had several assumptions about this before going into it, like it was probably black metal. Bad assumption, but it was definitely dark and depressing, which is assumed further by the doom/death tag these guys from Italy carry. Uh oh, it’s an Italian metal band […]
Beastiality \ death metal \ dudes no chanting please \ Invcitus Productions \ Nekronicon \ Sweden \ Swedish death metal \ Swedish metal \ thrash metal
Beastiality – Worshippers of Unearthly Perversions (Let’s See This Get Promoted)
My promotion for this album is probably going to get shot down immediately because of the band’s name, but that’s the reality of the underground. Filthy names, little exposure because of filthy names. Who would want to name their band after sex acts with animals anyway even if the spelling is slightly changed? It still […]
Autokrator \ cassette \ death metal \ experimental metal \ France \ noise metal \ order now scumbag
Autokrator – Hammer of the Heretics (Limited Edition Cassette)
Ready for our next ritual? Well shut up because here it is anyway. As you know, I thoroughly enjoy music that breaks boundaries and isolates me as much as possible. Enter a favorite of mine, the band Autokrator, whose debut full-length I reviewed back in 2015 only a few months after the new site launched. […]
Jollyfish Games \ kill geometry \ shooter \ space shooter \ Steam \ twitch shooter \ video games
AEGIS 2816 (Geometric Twitch Shooter)
Here’s a fun one. Or I mean a fun one. I was first drawn to the design of AEGIS 2186 because of its simple, minimalist approach to the space shooter genre. If you’re familiar with Tempest, Gyruss, and others, this little beauty, still largely unknown, has similar trappings, yet its modern approach is to its benefit. It relies on geometric […]
black metal \ blackened death metal \ death metal \ Grave Spirit \ Iron Bonehead Productions \ Karmazid \ United States
Grave Spirit – The Beast Unburdened by Flesh (Crud Love)
I was pretty sure this band had some sort of roots in South or Central America, but I just can’t figure it out for sure damn it. It just has that nasty, crude, but totally awesome sound to it. Lo-fi, yet listenable, shrieking, harsh, cymbals that sound like empty pie pans, I mean this has got it […]
Amanda Blodøks \ black metal \ blackened death metal \ Canada \ death metal \ Krucyator Productions \ Montreal \ Profane Order \ Satan Christ stuff
Profane Order – Tightened Noose of Sanctimony (Demo Metal)
I almost started a new feature with this one, covering only demos, but I so rarely get any that I’d even consider reviewing I figured eh, let’s just do this as the usual apocryphal review. Profane Order you’ve probably never heard of, but you likely will in the coming years, depending on what they do. […]
Crampi Records \ Death Crush Distro \ Destroy All Gondolas \ hardcore punk \ illama \ Italy \ MacinaDischi \ punk \ punk rock \ Shyrec \ Sonatine Produzioni \ surf rock
Destroy All Gondolas – Laguna Di Satana
It’s rare that I actually say something is unique. And I should make that as actually say so you get the emphasis. I joke, I rip to pieces, I vent, but sometimes I give my blood. It is time to give your blood to this band. I remember when I first reviewed their S/T 7″ three […]
black metal \ Cypriot PUNK MATTAFAKKA \ Cyprus \ death metal \ Infected Syren \ metal \ psychobilly \ punk \ rockabilly
Infected Syren – S/T (Cypriot Punk)
I’m glad I can finally say I reviewed a band from Cyprus, because the adjective “Cypriot” just sounds so great. So, here we have, for the first time ever, a Cypriot Punk outfit, though just “punk” is not nearly enough to describe them. This particular one, Infected Syren (also the band’s name), was further down my queue […]
Castlevania \ Gothic \ horror \ Metroid \ Metroidvania \ platformer \ Pugware \ Steam \ Steven Gal \ Usurper \ video game
Usurper (Metroidvania Darkness Ahoy)
I love user complaints, but especially concerning video games because anything negative is usually coming from a complete idiot running bad hardware. A fault with the self is hard to admit, it’s easier to blame someone else for your crappy Win-1o set up or connection speed, which has nothing to do with the game itself. It’s […]
