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Monthly Archives: August 2011
Tuesday Time Machine: Remember Nitro? Me Neither But You HAVE To Watch This.
This is one of those “I can believe people once liked this shit” moments. HOWEVA, there is some hilarious icing on the cake. I like the frame on the image too it makes you think they are edgy and artistic. … Read the rest of this entry →
Dead Mountain Mouth: A Psychadelic, Sludge, Industrial, Extreme Metal Playground
Dead Mountain Mouth is a different kind of one man project. The brainchild of Lundi Galilao, I first heard about the French act over at the cool dude(s?) at Sludgelord. I’ve since had the pleasure of getting to talk to … Read the rest of this entry →
Lick-errd Up And Chillin
You may read our posts sometimes and wonder: “Jeez, How drunk are these guys?”. The answer usually being “hmm mildly?”. Besides what’s it to you, narc? The more important question is how did we get to such a crossroads? And … Read the rest of this entry →
Black Friday: Everyone’s Favorite Black Metal Band From Kyrgyzstan
Speed blogging, mothertruckers! GO!! Today’s specimen is everyone’s favorite Central Asian folk black metal act Darkestrah. In fact, it’s probably the only band I know of from the -stans. “Stan” is an Arabic suffix meaning land and much of Darkestrah’s … Read the rest of this entry →
Throwback Thursdays: Sanctuary Circa 1987 With Refuge Denied
Welp….now that Nevermore is done, er, going through an extended line-up change, and Sanctuary seems to have new life, it’s time for something special and NW centric. Every Thursday we go back in time. But now it’s time to go … Read the rest of this entry →
Toronto’s Skull Fist; The Head Of The Pack, Indeed
Uh oh. I’m having that feeling again. No, not the loss of bowel control. That feeling I get every few months when I’ve found my new favorite band. Enter Toronto, Canada’s Skull Fist. Now I’ve made no secret about my … Read the rest of this entry →
High Hopes For John Tempesta And Temple Of The Black Moon
Back before the days when rolling double bass became the norm, there was a certain breed of drummer who could make you sit up and take note of his work through the tuning of his kit (and no doubt the … Read the rest of this entry →
BOOscovery: A Brief Review Of Sorts
So I know that I am a little behind and just now picked up Born of Osiris’s latest album The Discovery but, hey, I wasn’t too excited about it since they put out the abortion that was A Higher Place. … Read the rest of this entry →
Black Friday: Australians Wardaemonic Deliver Aggression And Reflection
It seems that Australia is churning out some solid black metal bands these days which makes one wonder why we have such a hard time getting our shit together here in the States. Don’t get me wrong; I love ABSU, … Read the rest of this entry →
Throwback Thursdays: Warrant’s Ill-timed 1992 Record Dog Eat Dog
Yep, I did it. I’m throwing up a post about Warrant. So, word on the street, and by street I mean the hair metal shit shoots I have with Mike, is that this album is considered by many high brow … Read the rest of this entry →
So I wasn’t going to write about this since I was reading it on another blog www.geekologie.com but I was checking out this post about the levitating girl Natsumi Hayashi and obviously decided to since your reading it now. I … Read the rest of this entry →
Levasseur To Reclaim The Throne?
What happened to Cryptopsy? The band’s last album The Unspoken King tainted their reputation in the death metal community, to put it politely. Since the departure of Jon Levasseur in 2003 they have certainly not been the same. Far, far … Read the rest of this entry →
South Africa’s Crow Black Sky Join The Growing Trend Towards Free Music
South Africa is a metal scene that seems to garnering a lot of attention lately in the blogosphere and WE KNOW you like free stuff. So, here it is. South Africa’s melodic blackened death metal act Crow Black Sky are … Read the rest of this entry →
Vader’s Return To The Morbid Reich: A Review
Vader, Vader, Vader…..so you come crawling back to the altar of brutality in repentance. I’ve gotta say these bros sounds hostile, technical and angry. Don’t get me wrong, Necropolis wasn’t bad at all but some of the previous records left … Read the rest of this entry →
Black Friday: Darkness From Down Under….Erebus Enthroned
Erebus Enthroned is releasing their first official full-length and man I reckon it to be a doozy. First off, the vocals are fucking legit. They remind me of Dissection in their well-mixed, intelligible nature but still incredibly dark and cavernous. … Read the rest of this entry →
Throwback Thursdays: 1993′s Heartwork: A Betrayal of Goregrind Or The Genesis Of Melodic Death?
Carcass may be the only band (if my nonexistent research is correct, and I have no reason to believe that it isn’t) that can claim to have founded two prominent metal sub-genres. Not only were these guys worshiped by the … Read the rest of this entry →
Revocation’s Chaos of Forms Fully Streaming On Guitar World: A Brief Review
If you’re like me you are clinging on to the ideals of thrash metal, ya know singing about dictators, wars, the occasional fantasy adventure, wearing denim, fat converse sneaks, and playing fast, heavy and technical music. Thrash at its best … Read the rest of this entry →
Random Bits Of Septic Flesh (haHA!)
Full ensemble composition can be a polarizing thing in metal circles. It was once a fresh and innovative trend, a coup d’etat in a genre of music stigmatized with images of neanderthal burnouts only concerned with making noise. Over … Read the rest of this entry →
Black Friday: More Dark Arts From The UK…Fen!
To go along with a couple of our recent Black Friday posts, Fen are another dreary black metal band who draws their tortured creativity from trees and marshes and stuff. They uniquely blend cold, gray black metal with jangly, melodic … Read the rest of this entry →
Brainoil: Sludgetastic Californians Return
After an 8 year hiatus, Oakland’s sludge metalists Brainoil are back to remind you that they are, in fact, a sludge band with the aptly titled Death of This Dry Season. I was quite the fan of 2003′s self-titled full-length … Read the rest of this entry →