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SPLITting Headache – Buncha Metal

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SPLITting Headache – Buncha Metal

Well, we finally made some sense out of what we want to do with this new special feature of ours, titled, as you can see, SPLITting Headache.  The problem we’ve always had with splits is that you have at least two bands, but sometimes more than that, and how do you go about reviewing that? […]

SPLITting Headache – Grizzlor / Barren Womb

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SPLITting Headache – Grizzlor / Barren Womb

Why, you know, since we get splits now and again we figured, why not make a cool new feature out of it?  We have a VS feature, but that’s reserved for two bands from the same label, or two albums from the same band.  This is not a competition, this is an exposition of all […]

Facebook Likes Disappearing?  Here’s Why (The Depraved Business of Social Media)

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Facebook Likes Disappearing? Here’s Why (The Depraved Business of Social Media)

In an era where click-bait articles are spread around based completely on headlines, when Buzzfeed is considered to be legit social criticism by people with a straight face, and where billions of depressed, mindless automatons ignore reality by watching videos of dogs falling off of chairs and couches, social media dominates.  It’s an escape, a […]

The Vault: Mistress of the Dead – White Roses, White Coffin

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The Vault: Mistress of the Dead – White Roses, White Coffin

Funeral doom is a pretty stable niche in the field of doom metal, but it tends to turn away most of those who are more attuned to the driving force of bands like Bog Oak, or really anything with a tempo that doesn’t move at a pace so slow half a chord progression takes a […]

Cassette Assault – Hit It Hard With Sludge

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Cassette Assault – Hit It Hard With Sludge

In the past, when we’ve tossed tapes purposefully at your face; sometimes it’s been a hit, sometimes a miss, depending on the tape.  This time we didn’t want that, we wanted it all. no misses.  As the tapes come in, as well as anything else, we’re picky now, preferring to review what we see in a positive […]

Cassette Assault – Absolute Filth

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Cassette Assault – Absolute Filth

Here we are again, ye keepers of the guns and ammo, ye corrupt blasphemers of the digital era.  Load up, get your bandoliers, get your helicopters, get your grenades, and prepare to blow the speakers of that nice old Sony two-deck you got from Goodwill as you continue to deny the world you believe in […]

The Shit Cole Olson’s Been Listening To (Post-Hardcore Bonanza)

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The Shit Cole Olson’s Been Listening To (Post-Hardcore Bonanza)

Due to my lack of participation/free time/sanity because of schooling, I haven’t had much time to dedicate myself to albums that bands have submitted and hash out thoughts and coherent sentences that could properly convey what I need to say. Instead, due to the impending finality of this semester, and a bit of booze, I’m […]

Compilation Dissertation – Ball de Bastons / Makil Dantza

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Compilation Dissertation – Ball de Bastons / Makil Dantza

Been awhile since we did one of these.  So for those of you who missed out on our last one, let’s explain before we begin, because this is a lot of reading, and it should be because it’s a lot of work, thus the title of this feature. Compilation Dissertation is where we give a […]

DistortHead VS A Scar for the Wicked

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DistortHead VS A Scar for the Wicked

It’s time for a challenge.  Time for a battle where only one can remain, crowned the victor of a meaningless Deaf Sparrow award that doesn’t even exist in any physical form.  At times we review two things at once, we’ve done it before.  Two albums, same band, or perhaps two albums same label.  But then […]

Cassette Assault – Metal and Noise

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Cassette Assault – Metal and Noise

Get your guns, get your gurls, or mens, and prepare, for a….cassette assault!  If you’re new around here, this is when we check out a series of four different cassettes in the same review.  Sometimes from the same label, maybe the same band, but this time we’re doing a set of tapes from four different […]