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Brian Knapp \ cybergoth \ cyberpunk \ Grand Rapids \ Michigan \ post-industrial \ United States
Lazer Station – MEGABOMB SOUND SYSTEM VOL. 1 (Post-Industrial Cybergoth)
Yay I’m on an industrial kick this week thanks to Bandcamp tagging! After that last one I was hoping to find something more traditional, and here we go. Mixing old style with modern post-industrial, cybergoth, and other things of the electronic dark, Lazer Station was a welcome surprise in a landscape otherwise densely populated […]
20 Buck Spin \ death metal \ gore-soaked death metal \ Oregon \ Portland \ Rok \ United States
Torture Rack – Primeval Onslaught (Better Than Good Enough Death Metal)
These past two weeks I’ve had a bunch of “eh, good enough” death metal promos to sort through. And you know what? I don’t have time for that anymore! I don’t want “good enough,” especially not with “eh,” I want better than good enough! I want at least almost better than that! The best […]
heavy metal \ Jessica Moncrief \ Oregon \ Portland \ Shadow Kingdom Records \ sleaze metal \ speed metal \ United States
Leathürbitch – Shattered Vanity (Leathery Sleaze Metal)
With a name like Leathürbitch there are no secrets to be purged. No past wrongs that need to be expunged. No lies to be forgiven, no mistakes. If one is to combine the leather with anything, it’s outright sleaze and there’s no coming back from the path. There is no guilt, no shame, only […]
Caligari Records \ Fort Wayne \ Indiana \ Rohhalusmu \ Roy Oktavionata \ spectral death metal \ United States
Desekryptor – Curse of the Execrated (Spectral Death Metal)
Here’s a band that needs to get its shit together and make a goddamn full-length. Around for almost a decade, and with a sound that will rot the peace out of your existence, Desekryptor have only dropped demos, a comp (which is really just a collection of demos, let’s be real), and one split, […]
Caelan Stokkermans \ Connecticut \ melodic doom metal \ Newington \ Prosthetic Records \ United States
Fires in the Distance – Air Not Meant for Us (Don’t Listen to This with Headphones Melodic Doom Metal)
I sat on this one awhile because it didn’t sit well with me at first, and I believe I finally know the reason. But keep reading before you get incensed from that opening line, I have more to say on the matter. Fires in the Distance are quite the mouthful in a variety of […]
Alexander Trinkl \ Iron Bonehead Productions \ Irrwisch \ symphonic black metal \ United States
Sever – At Midnight, By Torch Light (Boarish Symphonic Black Metal)
A surprisingly good release this and yes I meant to spell ‘boarish’ like that. Guy’s got a band photo with big wild boars (look it up) and a lantern I’m pretty definite he got on sale at A.C. Moore before it liquidated. But, sorry, we have to let that slip go because this is […]
blackened crust \ blackened punk \ blackened thrash \ Charles Rouse \ d-beat \ Florida \ Gainesville \ Gurgling Gore \ United States
Hot Graves – Plaguewielder (Blackened D-Beat Thrash Crust Wow)
Here’s an album I listen to one track of and I’m like “yep, this is good.” It’s one of those you know is straight up old-fashioned good and there’s no need to delve. Plus, Hot Graves has been at it quite awhile so shit better be good at this point! As usual, per our […]
barbaric blackened death metal \ Berkati Cakra \ Hells Headbangers \ Ohio \ United States
Genocidal Rites – Exsanguination of the Gods (Barbaric Blackened Death Metal)
Any time you see art by Berkati Cakra, you know you’re in for a slammer. And this may be one of the most over-the-top images I’ve seen him craft. Here’s it fits the music so well it might be his best, and trust you me he’s done a lot of blasphemous necroworship. Just look […]
20 Buck Spin \ Alexandria \ California \ Ian Miller \ Oakland \ Oregon \ Portland \ United States \ Virginia
Ulthar – Anthronomicon (Abomination Metal)
Ulthar can do no wrong at this point, pretty sure about that. When we last encountered them I was thrilled by the music, but disgusted at the thematics, which were, ugh, Lovecraft BS; a theme far too many metal bands have milked dry until only blood remains, and you don’t even want any of […]
Abomination Hammer \ death grind \ Oregon \ Portland \ Profound Lore Records \ United States
Tithe – Inverse Rapture (Alzheimer’s Death Grind)
This is the kind of release that just makes me super happy. Just almost everything’s good about it, you know? You’ve got a cover that digs out your soul and chews it to bits, a spider-webbed logo you want to snuggle up in, a turning of religion on its head in a clever way […]
