It is a mild rarity when a death metal band hits me with a record ‘new’ enough in […]
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Tracing the trajectory of Portland, Oregon founded psychedelic stoner-thrashing noise rock duo Wizard Rifle these last nine or […]
To be a band of a certain era and doubly associated with the (then) meek and socially inept […]
(Exterior: A bog, just in sight of the looming towers of Crondor Manor, somewhere deep in the thick […]
Unkempt and festering from teeth to taint as a reeking tube of rarely animated human garbage in life […]
The sudden end of then skyrocketing Portland, Oregon heavy metal band Spellcaster in 2017 came swift and final enough […]
Too often popular music treats depression as if it were a strike of lightning, or an extra-sensorial event, […]
With the benefit of hindsight’s clarity 1974 was a time of double-edged human achievement, a brief but glorious […]
As civilization dips in and out of periods of unrest, revolution, and distrust with greater frequency the passage […]
A magnificent carcass rots beneath the thawing wet of the Pacific Northwest today, pungent in its intensifying decayed […]
The Zoroastrian faith circa 500 BCE considered all bodily refuse beyond the soul as nesu, rotten filth that […]
To set foot within slippery loam and atop sighing carpets of rainforest moss alike provides the sensation of […]
When bombarded by the endless streams of world class heavy metal releases that amount to far more than […]
At face value it would seem the dissolution of promising Portland, Oregon heavy metal legends Spellcaster in 2017 was […]
The rat infested, garage shaking thrash of Portland, Oregon’s own Cemetery Lust coughs up the barely-chewed remains of […]
With sudden and indefinite release from a lifetime in Ceremonial Castings The Witcher (Jake Superchi) quickly formed melodic […]
The apparition of Portland, Oregon death metal band Ritual Necromancy revealed itself at a slightly inopportune point of […]
Portland, Oregon based death metal tormentors Torture Rack carry their down-tuned guitars with sledgehammers for arms and the raking […]
You almost have to have been a huge follower of underground alt rock/stoner metal, or just an avid […]
Formed abreast the epicenter of Oregon’s bigger and better things, Portland-based Witch Mountain spent nearly a decade failing […]
