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Blood Feast \ it's thrash like what do you expect \ New Jersey \ retro thrash \ thrash \ thrash metal \ thrash revival
Blood Feast – The Future State of Wicked (Uhhhhh…)
I was totally about this album for some reason when I first saw the cover. The more I look at it, I’m not sure why. The more I listen to it I’m even more disgusted at my intuition. It is clearly wrong. Okay how many times have I said this next particular thing now? I don’t […]
Black Faith \ black metal \ Italian \ Italian black metal \ Italy \ like it's black metal what do you want \ Throats Production
Black Faith – Nightscapes (It’s Black Metal, From Italy)
Italian black metal. Just doesn’t roll off the tongue, or out the mouth, as vomit, which means at least it’s not so bad that you’re led into revulsion. There’s simply something about that word combination that seems a contradiction. Why? Italian metal, in general, I’ve found, tends to be highly derivative, though there are certainly […]
agonia records \ awesome black metal \ black metal \ qua \ Svartsyn \ Sweden
Svartsyn – In Death (Qua Black Metal)
I think I’ve been disappointed by Agonia Records on a single occasion only, but this isn’t why I haven’t looked at them in awhile. The real reason is a number of the bands they carry are so huge I typically don’t pay attention to the promos past a listen, in spite of how good they […]
blackened death metal \ blood harvest \ butter face \ butter riffs \ California \ death metal \ Memento Mori \ RUIN \ sludge \ United States \ Vonfrost Records
RUIN – Drown in Blood (Better Through Headphones)
Okay, listen, bands, hey, if you’re picking a name, please, please make sure it hasn’t been goddamn picked already! I just don’t get that. Then you have to add (US), or whatever country, followed by state or territory, maybe even town if you’re dumb enough to stick with the name when there’s already a band going by […]
ÆRA \ Battlegrounds Records \ black metal \ blackened \ Boonsdale Records \ Chile \ Code666 Records \ crust punk \ Dark Habits \ death metal \ Desolated Woods \ Eoront \ Finland \ folk metal \ Germany \ Glasgow \ GoldMold Records \ Inverse Records \ Memento Mori \ Missouri \ Montreal \ Mutank \ pagan metal \ Post Pulse \ powerviolence \ Quebec \ quick reviews \ Ruins of Beverast \ Russia \ season of mist \ sludge metal \ Technical Death Metal \ Texas \ The Ditch and the Delta \ The Netherlands \ thrash metal \ Ulsect \ United Kingdom \ United States \ Ván Records \ Witch Vomit
Quick Reviews – September 2017
In case you missed it, we do special, short reviews now of stuff that’s not up to the standards I set for full reviews. Meaning, the cover art sucks. This doesn’t mean the music isn’t any good, of course, but as you know, at least 1/4 of an album’s presence is in its art, a […]
Artificial Head Records \ CURSUS \ doom \ doom metal \ like rock hard \ like rock me like a hurricane \ rock on dood \ Texas
CURSUS – S/T (Like, Where’s the Bass Maaannn?)
Yeah listen. Yo. Making music is hard. Trying to do something new in music, even harder. Trying to do something without something expected, waaayyy harrrrddder. Every genre has expectations looming over it, and I don’t mean just metal in general or all the kabillions of subsubgenres we have now, I mean for anything. For doom metal, […]
black metal \ Canada \ Délétère \ just awesome \ lovage \ Quebec \ riffage \ Sepulchral Productions \ stiffage
Délétère – Per Aspera Ad Pestilentiam (Black Metal, Sans Water Fowl)
The last time I tasted Canadian black metal this dude put a bunch of geese squawking over garbage tremolo as part of the “aesthetic” and it was ridiculous. Délétère has a different approach, thankfully, though I admit I would’ve liked to laugh at more inane and completely out-of-place samples of water fowl over black metal, […]
dark \ death metal \ decay \ Italy \ Nuclear War Now! Productions \ rotting \ Sangue \ shadows \ smelly mold
Sangue – S/T (Yeah, Listen To This One)
Knowing that the former drummer of Pungent Stench was part of this gang, I figured it had to be good. That’s kind of strange to say about a drummer, because, well, they drum. What else can you say? If you can pound good enough, no one really pays attention, but Rector Stench had this style […]
boring as shit \ Canometal Records \ Chile \ doom \ Hammerheart Records \ Mourners Lament
Mourners Lament – We All Be Given (We All Be Boring, More Like)
Yeah, you know, so everything about this album is boring. Even this review is boring, why read it? I was first drawn to the art, but much like the music after several experiences with it I’m not sure I know what the hell I’m looking at and I’m too bored to try anymore. What at […]
animated film \ animation \ anime \ brutal \ Gantz \ gore \ Japan \ manga \ my god can it get better? \ please more \ Toho
Watching the World Die – Gantz: 0
I was doing a cursory search through films the other day, looking for something to ruin me further, down into the deepest pits of the Internet where money is meaningless (you know what that means). I happened upon something I only knew about through GIFs, and assumed was merely a newer video game rendition of […]
