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ambient black metal \ K.V.N.T. Kolektiv \ post-black metal \ United Kingdom
Well here’s one that looks dumb if you crop the art the right way (go back to main page). Jesus lady face so sad? Oh, and she’s, oh… Props for the Aubrey Beardsley look, it’s for sure something most people will miss, but now that we’ve got past the cover how fare the tunes? […]
Brouemaster Visual Decay \ death metal \ Florida \ Maxime Tremblay \ Redefining Darkness Records \ United States
Well, here’s a release that almost wears out its welcome but manages to press a smile into your cheeks anyway. Carrying on the tradition of Floridian death metal come Fleshdriver, a drum and guitar tag team that, to date, have but two singles and Leech, a demo, to their name. For lacking bass and […]
Matt Stikker \ Oregon \ Portland \ post-black metal \ Translation Loss Records \ United States
Wow, I ended up liking this one more than I expected. Leave it to US black metal to excite me again, after months and months of drudgery. I was getting sick of the snowstorm tremolo, the corpse paint no one remembers the purpose of anymore, the lo-fi ” but that’s how it’s supposed to […]
Belarus \ Iron Bonehead Productions \ post-apocalyptic black metal \ Suguru Konaga
Sometimes metal of the arcane is just lame. Don’t bring that shit if you can’t walk that shit. This is especially problematic when bands of this virulent strain have really long and/or difficult to spell names like that’s supposed to mean they’re awesome or something. Holy shit I can’t even pronounce it let alone […]
10.80 Films \ A Team Productions \ Belgium \ black comedy \ Everstory Productions \ horror film \ Lars Damoiseaux \ zombies
Plastic disasters are on the table in Belgiun director Lars Damoiseaux’s Yummy. A woman and her mother seek out shoddy plastic surgery at an Eastern European hospital; the woman wanting a breast reduction and the mannequin-faced mother needing another face lift ala Jocelyn Wildenstein, while the big-breasted woman’s boyfriend is dragged along for moral […]
Canada \ death metal \ Krucyator Productions \ Salvator Rosa
Yeah that’s all I got for today, mummies, but it’s totally accurate, or rather just watch me make it work. Though Shezmu are heavily laden with Egyptian themes in their earlier work, their latest, À Travers Les Lambeaux is subtle in this regard, so it’ll be tough. But let’s start by saying if you […]
abhorrent black metal \ BMS Illustration \ Iron Bonehead Productions \ Norway \ ritualistic black metal \ Sentient Ruin Laboratories
Sometimes I wonder how black metal can do the same old thing, but here I go again with that oft-stated conundrum. It’s the same thing with classic hardcore, punk, and the like. There’s always the typical, and that’s what pretty much runs the genre as a whole. But jeez, I say, why can’t more […]
Canada \ Didier Normand \ Figther Records \ heavy metal \ speed metal \ Xalpen Records
Nice, some actual heavy metal that’s actually good. I was struggling to understand what in the hell this band name was about since this is now a one-man power act that was originally part of Iron Dogs (known for their risque covers), and that name made sense. Ice War, like, what is that? Is […]
Agustin Hernández \ Goth \ Pennsylvania \ Philadelphia \ posi-punk \ Profound Lore Records \ Texas
A fine week this has been. Nearly every genre of the dark fells into my hands, and even some brutal death rap by a sexually extreme queen of hell. So I figured we’d end it on a sad note, a tenderly painful memory of the week the most reviews were ever done at Deaf […]
death rap \ rap \ Sony Music Entertainment \ Tik Tok rap
I rarely do rap mainly because what I receive is so derivative I wonder why they even try. And the art…uggghhhhh. What is it with the hip-hop and rap community and god awful art? Seriously. Occasionally there are goodies like Chong Wizard, but I suppose like anything else the taint of the typical is […]