The first time I smoked weed is somehow still one of my most vivid memories from my sophomore […]
2018
If you jumped straight from Skinless‘ demo in 1994 to ‘Savagery’ today in 2018 it wouldn’t be an […]
Extreme doom metal often carries with it some amount of work on the part of the listener. Be […]
Frustration and disorientation are hardly marketable reactions and though they are rarely intentional in terms of popular music […]
Crackling like a degraded tape in between giant stoner doom riffs the post-metallic sludge of Sacramento’s CHRCH seems impossibly […]
There isn’t a more admirable way to fuck right off out of high school hell into the hapless […]
Although they had a quick three year run and only cranked out one cassette demo in 2014 before […]
BACKLOG is a “whenever the fuck I feel like it” blog feature focusing on how I’m progressing through […]
Rapacious in their early ambitions Linköping, Sweden based black/death metal band Nekrokraft were perhaps too eager on their […]
Formed abreast the epicenter of Oregon’s bigger and better things, Portland-based Witch Mountain spent nearly a decade failing […]
In their earliest movements Lychgate were nothing short a flowing, heaving gust of black metal from the void-pulsing […]
After some stints in folk and black metal bands in the late 90’s guitarist/vocalist IX formed Urfaust as […]
Reeking of nihilism, blasphemy and a nominal essence of early Grave German death metal band Abythic were harried […]
You might figure half of Scandinavian rock scene is populated with post-flower children hailing the residue of the […]
Scouring my sub-conscious for the last year as ‘that band that opened for Unsane‘ this Motor City metallic, […]
As inalienable as the cartoonish ‘anime villan’ angst of God of War series’ anti-hero Kratos of Sparta seemed […]
Obsessed with the cruelty and furor of the first wave of black metal and it’s thrash metal forbears […]
San Francisco based black metal project Twilight was essentially a ‘super group’ or rather a collaboration between several […]
This Madrid, Spain based black metal project formed in 2016 with conspirators involved in more recent Primigenium releases […]
After kicking around song ideas for a few years on his own San Diego, California musician Francis Roberts […]
