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California \ hardcore punk \ Los Angeles \ Southern Lord Recordings
Entry- Detriment (Some Prosaic Punk Stuff)
I typically review punk submissions when I get them unless they’re absolutely awful, so even the average I’ll give a shot just because it’s so rare I receive anything from the genre that doesn’t reek of stagnancy. When I saw the quintessential post-punk look to the cover of this I figured it would be […]
death metal \ horror metal \ Italy \ Nuclear War Now! Productions \ occult metal
Scolopendra – Those of the Catacombs (Vocally Sophomoric Occult Death Metal)
Well this is a curious state of affairs. Two of the dudes in Abhor and two random dudes from other bands appear to have a side project of sorts, or perhaps just a one-off, we don’t know yet because this is the only thing Scolopendra has done. It came out of nowhere, and it […]
20 Buck Spin \ blackened thrash \ dark basement thrash \ Jeremy Cook \ Texas \ thrash metal
Skeleton – S/T (Dark Basement Thrash)
This kind of thrash conjures my favorite vision. Imagine a basement in a lower-middle income, at best, town somewhere in a broken down, former industrial center of the US, probably Ohio (actually Texas here, technically). Imagine in that shit hole a local quickie gas station is the only “entertainment” and in that doldrums is […]
blackened doom metal \ Godz Ov War Productions \ Poland \ WS Artworks
Rites of Daath – Doom Spirit Emanation (Sweet, Painful Blackened Death Doom)
I was originally going to pass on this simply because I didn’t get to it in time, but upon further consideration of how freaking absolutely awesome it is I couldn’t ignore my musically stabbed heart. I swear I don’t support Godz Ov War Productions in a secret side-deal, it just so happens this is […]
death groove \ death metal \ Godz Ov War Productions \ Mark Riddick \ Poland \ United Kingdom
Eternal Rot – Putridarium (Bowel Disgorging Groove Death)
Oh man what a filthy groove. Stuff like this is hard to hate. Downright impossible in most cases. Or, at least in the case of Eternal Rot it is truth to speak as such. I’ve heard these guys before but I can’t remember what led me to pass on the review. Either I got […]
Everlasting Spew Records \ Finland \ funeral doom \ Misanthropic Art \ Sentient Ruin Laboratories
Convocation – Ashes Coalesce (Weight of the World Funeral Doom)
So yeah yet again I’m convinced that this type of doom needs to hit with everything it’s got. You want a funeral, make it sound like one without the silliness. The slowness, the trudging steps, the abject suffering. It has to hit and hit well to succeed. Slow itself is not enough. It needs […]
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, […]
