Flourishing - Intersubjectivity
While I couldn't get my head around Flourishing's debut full length, The Sum of Fossils, I've become quite a fan of their latest release Intersubjectivity. Nestled somewhere in between their signature...
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Hintergrund - Nemesis
Two piece drone outfit Hintergrund hail from Ohio and lack any kind of boundaries, form, or subject. Instead, Hintergrund operates in a gaseous territory where aspects of ambiance, noise, and drone...
View ArticleBandcamp of the Week : Vemod
A bit unusual for me to do a BCOTW for a basically one song, but the upcoming track from Vemod's Venter på stormene is just so awesome that I couldn't help but share it with you guys and gals.An epic,...
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Heartsick? Forlorn? A tad depressed? Autumn and Winter will do that to you.I've always felt lows around this time of year and it's not much different circa 2012. Music's always been a strong sense of...
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Deism - Deism
A constant plucking bass, a floor tom build up and a sheet of feedback introduce Alabama's Deism and their 5 minute demo by the same name. Deism's approach is undoubtedly oldschool, although the...
View ArticleBandcamp of the Week - Slave
There's a Despise You cover... I really shouldn't have to say anything else, but I guess I could say that this is some fucking ugly, pissed off and rough power violence from Birmingham, Alabama that...
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The Kill - Make 'em Suffer
If you're looking for music to accompany your holiday past time of binging on meth and bulldozing your neighbor's gaudy lawn decorations then look no further than Australia's reigning grinders The...
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The End Time: Best Albums of 2012
duuuuuuuurr. another list. This year I've decided to not look up anything I might've missed, or forced myself to find new things. I'm going with what's come to be, and what I've found. Keep in mind,...
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Sweatin' the Small Stuff, Part I: Best EPs, Splits, Comps, and Demos of 2012
After my favorite full lengths of the year, here are my favorite EPs, demos, comps, and splits of 2012. Split into two parts, this is part one numbers 20-11.20. Cold Cave - A Little Death to LaughThree...
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Sweatin' the Small Stuff, Part II: Best EPs, Splits, Comps, and Demos of 2012
Hope everyone's had a good holiday. I ate way too much, played too much Wii U and got to see my newborn nephew, so it was great.Check out my favorite albums of the year and part 1 of my favorite eps,...
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Skullthrone - Demo
London two piece Skullthrone are a burst of black metal that's had plenty of years to fester in punk's corpse. Their demo, recorded throughout 2010 and '11 is a nice mixture of aggressive and raw black...
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Bandcamp of the Week: My Fictions
My Fictions play a great brand of post-hardcore/screamo that's not afraid to get heavy and blast, or somber and crash. Hailing from good 'ol Lowell Massachusetts (ya might remeba it from da Fighta ya...
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Cloud Rat - Moksha
Cloud Rat's second LP, Moksha, is a fierce surge of melodically intertwined grindcore with nods aplenty to various influences. To allocate one particular influence would be futile as Cloud Rat mix...
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Sloth Herder - Abandon Pop Sensibility
Toss cult hardcore icons Rorschach in a blender with misanthropic sludgesters Dystopia and whirl in a dose of modern discontent and you've got Sloth Herder.Abandon Pop Sensibility, the band's latest...
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Bandcamp of the Week - Gets Worse
Gets Worse are a three piece pv outfit hailing from Leeds, UK. Their most recent effort, Year of the Bastard is a 4 track onslaught of metallic power violence that relishes in breakdowns and thick...
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Vemod - Venter på stormene
The everlasting universe of thingsFlows through the mind, and rolls its rapid waves,Now dark--now glittering--now reflecting gloom--Now lending splendour, where from secret springsThe source of human...
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Iron Lung - White Glove Test
"music" coverPower violence's most forward thinking act are back with their ambitious new album entitled White Glove Test. Further pushing the band's ammonia soaked aesthetic and affinity for jangley...
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Botanist - IV: Mandragora
IV: Mandragora, the fourth album by one man drum and dulcimer act Botanist, might be the entity's most fleshed out and realized effort. Elements of black metal shine through a bit more obvious as it...
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Blessings - Bittervatten
Band's like Sweden's Blessings instill a certain kind of emotion in me that I'm not sure I can accurately describe. The relatively young 3-piece blends so many different styles, all of which I like,...
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Fell Voices - Regnum Saturni
With their third album, Regnum Saturni, U.S. black metal act Fell Voices find themselves playing into abstracts and delving deeper into ritualistic chaos. The album was recorded live, a trait that...
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Ruined Families - Blank Language
Blank Language is that light at the end of the tunnel, the album that twists and turns the way you'd want and the distant dream you've been thinking about since you first had it some years ago....
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Wreck and Reference - Content
No artist sounds like Wreck and Reference. Maybe my musical interests and knowledge are a bit narrow, but I doubt I'm wrong about my previous statement. Last year's Youth was not only one of my...
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Bandcamp of the Week: Sea of Shit
After catching Sea of Shit with Sick/Tired, Callous, and Lucid Terror (some ripping Terrorizer-esque grind from LI) I've been digging this tape I picked up from them. Noisy and destructive power...
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Sweatin' The Small Stuff: Best EPs, Splits, and Comps of 2013
I'm such an utter failure. I've failed to keep this blog up to date and I suck because of that. But maybe there's some room for forgiveness. If anyone cares, I've some stuff to get to and it's stuff...
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The End Time: Best Albums of 2013
Here's what really caught my ear this year. No honorable mentions, no bullshit. I've exhausted these albums and will continue to do so. I've picked 11 because someone once told me that's metal and I...
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