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Whenever an emerging doom band comes out with 30-minute single song albums, I run for my pillow and pajamas and take note in my “most...
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Punk and hardcore musicians are often whimsical about their creative endeavors. Especially for established musicians who can write fast and lay down competent recordings...
Mad at the world: 10 of the best Powerviolence records of 2023 Thanks to the this year’s miraculous, “has there been a glitch in...
When one can step back, as a writer, as a musician, as a fan, away from the seemingly endless surge of new releases and...
In 1965, when Gordon E. Moore observed that microchip transistors doubled approximately every two years, it’s impossible that he could have forseen that the...
Whenever an emerging doom band comes out with 30-minute single song albums, I run for my pillow and pajamas and take note in my “most...
You can’t deny the rush of adrenaline you get when you hear a great crust album. The soaring melodies, the punishing palm-muted riffs, the...
Tyranny’s Aeons in Tectonic Interment features five epic tracks of funeral doom/death with fitting song titles such as “Sunless Deluge” and “Preparation of a...
In terms of extreme metal – mainly death and doom/death – Finland had, and currently has, a very, very strong scene. The Finnish death metal domain in the...
Upon receiving this record, a friend warned me it was as “if Ian Curtis fronted Torche” with a disdainful sneer – as if that combination could...
Black metal feels like an increasingly intriguing genre in 2015. The spin-offs; the cross-genre pollination; the experimentation; it all adds up to an abundance...