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Matt Stikker \ Oregon \ Portland \ post-black metal \ Translation Loss Records \ United States
Drouth – Excerpts from a Dread Liturgy (Black Metal Manifest)
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
Dkharmakhaoz – Proclamation ov the Black Suns (Did I Spell it Right Post-Apocalyptic Black Metal)
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
Yummy (Plastic Surgery Zombie Film)
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
Shezmu – À Travers Les Lambeaux (Mummified Death Metal)
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
Deadlight Sanctuary – Thaumaturgical Rites of the Damned (Abhorrently Not Kvlt Ritualistic Black Metal)
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
Ice War – Defender, Destroyer (One-Man Snow-Hating Heavy Metal)
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
Executioner’s Mask – Despair Anthems (A Timeline of Goth)
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
BIGKLIT – KLITORIUS BIG (Violating S3xual Death 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 […]
Cryptic Passage \ electronic noise \ experimental \ Washington
Fake Snake – Instigate (Haunted Factory of Pain Music)
So like I know this guy from way back maaannnn. I actually released a CD on the previous label (now combined with Deaf Sparrow) of another of his crazy acts, Melted Cassettes, and was thus hoping for something of the sort. Lucky me, because his other incarnation, Fake Snake, while bringing to mind pleasant […]
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 […]
