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dark synthwave \ electronica \ Girlfriend Records \ Gost \ Graveyard Calling \ spooky \ trend kill spookery
Gost – S/T
Well, isn’t this fitting for the month? We’ve been on a dark synthwave kick around here with several excellent submissions, including Perturbator’s newest, which we reviewed not so long ago, and with whom we’re currently finishing an interview. In fact, he was the one that told us about this Gost character, so we gave him […]
devil music \ Go Down Records \ hard rock \ punk \ punk n roll (is that really a genre?) \ Satan rock \ The Sade
The Sade – II
We’ve recently been too entrenched in death and gloom around here, as well as dark synthwave madness. It’s been a dark, all-encompassing pathos, a pathos that was in need of an awakening through good, old-fashioned hard rock with a touch of Satanic imagery, perhaps a bit of that ‘billy’ thing tagged on at the end. […]
black metal something WTF I don't have the words \ crucial blast \ Ehnahre \ free metal \ Satan jazz \ The Vault
The Vault: Ehnahre – Taming the Cannibals
There’s very little you can say about Ehnahre to someone who hasn’t heard them before. Black metal free jazz, death jazz, Satanic jazz; terms like that sort of give an idea, but it’s not really sufficient. An earlier version of the band formed around 2000 and experimented with several different genres including grind, sludge, and […]
Boddicker \ crust \ Detroit \ dirty old house with some hot dirty girl in it that needs a bath but you don't care \ grindcore \ powerviolence \ sludge
Boddicker – Crime Upheaval
It’s too bad this cassette is sold out and anyone who now wants to listen to it has to resort to, pfff, digital. Boddicker, get with the times. Listen, anything like has to be listened to on at least vinyl or cassette. It can’t be any other way, especially since they use Detroit as an […]
Collapse Under the Empire \ experimental \ Germany \ post-metal \ post-post-post-rock \ post-post-rock \ post-rock
Collapse Under the Empire – Sacrifice & Isolation
This is something we need to dig out for our ‘The Vault’ feature coming up soon. Collapse Under the Empire first came to our attention when they sent us their EP The Sirens Sound several years ago. It was placed into the car stereo during a long trip to DC, even though the artwork gave no […]
doom \ like take an ammonia wave to jupiter and stuff \ post-metal \ post-rock \ renate/cordate \ shoegaze \ space rock dood
renate/cordate – S/T
Blame us for the length of time this one took. We can’t pin it on the old editor for this particular review because though this one came in another one of his mysterious boxes of “WTF where did you hide this stuff?”, this new editor speaking to you now looked at this particular album, said […]
Abduct Tape Records \ hardcore \ Hemorrhage \ post-awesome \ post-everything-you-ever-heard \ post-hardcore \ this does own you \ this will own you
Hemorrhage – Chapter One EP
How many times have we opened a review with “wow” around here? One too many, certainly, so let’s start this one out on a different note. If only we had the buzzwords to do it…at least one… What about a phrase instead? How about simply this is of the “I want to punch someone who […]
ambient \ drone \ folk \ if Burzum wrote good stuff \ Monastery \ Salem \ Seraphim House \ witches and ghosts and stuff
Monastery – Peculiar Storms
You ever look at something and say “yeah, this will be good”? Here is a case of that, so thank the new deities of the true arts, Seraphim House, for the opportunity to listen to such beauty. Robb, the mind behind Monastery, took the time to send an absolutely spectacular package that, upon opening the box, caused me […]
Charles Shriner \ dea \ dRachEmUsiK \ experimental \ Joo Won Park \ MCSD NetLabel \ mommy me make music
Joo Won Park & dRachEmUsiK – Side Dish Side Affect
Ah, after all this metal blasphemy and power, it’s good to sit back and think. Refreshing to run our minds over the more complex matter that surrounds us, the human being, and to try to figure out what it all means, but end up figuring out nothing and drooling into a stupor. There is quite […]
doom \ girl sludge without the necessity in mentioning that they are girls \ SaturninE \ sludge
SaturninE – S/T Demo
Wait, this is a demo? There’s no way, there’s just no way. This little beauty was tucked away in a box the old editor had in his possession, and this guy, new editor, found it while digging through the dregs to find the goodies to actually review (that’s how we do it now, not everything can […]
