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Review: Neurosis – Enemy of the Sun (2010 Reissue)
A forbearing intellectualism is what Neurosis is all about, and has always been about. They are not balls deep metal, nor are they artsy fartsy elitists. Somewhere in the middle, Neurosis has wow’ed countless listeners with their blend of sludge, hardcore and so many avant garde tidbits, that they have made a career out of [...]
Review: The Body – All The Waters Of The Earth Turn To Blood (2010)
Man, some bands are really out there to trip you into a complete mind-fuck! All The Waters Of The Earth Turn To Blood really screws with you on every track too! Sometimes when listening to an album, I like to go by the first impression I get from the 1st track, and I was completely [...]
Review: Wolvhammer – Black Marketeers of World War III (2010)
The dirty relationship that would arise should the dregs of sludge metal mate with the slick, foreboding nature of black metal is anything but likely…or so we thought. Out of the darkness comes Wolvhammer, a band of Minnesota natives hell bent on crushing skulls via blunt force trauma as echoed in the sludge metal handbook, [...]
Review: Year Of No Light – Ausserwelt (2010)
Instrumentals can be a nice reprieve from some of the shit you listen to. It’s even a reprieve from the good stuff as well, because you simply don’t have to listen that hard for the lyrics to come, and you don’t become distracted from where some of the real talent in most bands really lies…In [...]
Music Video: Dark Castle – Awake in Sleep
Saw these guys a couple of months back in Portland and they sounded exactly like on this video, only much…much louder.
Awake in Sleep – Dark Castle from Paul Myers on Vimeo.
Review: A Storm of Light – Forgive Us Our Trespasses (2009)
First and foremost, I want to say that the label distributing this fine piece of work is Neurot Recordings, the group who is also distributing the Shrinebuilder debut which I simply cannot get enough of. Everyone should check out Neurot’s website to see all the other great material they are or have distributed in the [...]
Review: Big Game Hunt – Goliath (2009)
Wow, Eastern Canada is really pumping out the bands! Nova Scotia’s own Big Game Hunt has recently released their album Goliath and seeks to bring the southern stoner sludge Canadian style. Does have Canada have what it takes to make their own New Orleans? Well, they already have the French influence, so all they need [...]
Review: Gray Ghost – Deep In the Shallow End EP (2009)
Atlanta’s own Gray Ghost are out to harvest despair and nihilism, at least that is the sound that is evolked from their new EP, Deep In the Shallow End. Creating atmosphere through a sludge metal record is an art within itself, because you don’t want to sound like you are trying too hard by just [...]
Review: Inchoate IV: The Revenant (2009)
I have been receiving an unusual amount of instrumental albums lately, but my latest arrival is nothing short of a mind bender. Solo project Inchoate, courtesy of Brandon Duncan, is not your stereotypical instrumental project. Most instrumental albums consist of a full band (or at least guest musicians), and usually provide a platform for an [...]
Review: Isis – Wavering Radiant (2009)
Many in the mainstream feel the need to call Isis post-metal. This is a term that I never understood because it insinuates that those that are labeled “post-metal” are no longer actually metal. Does this sound like a cop out to anyone else? To me this sounds like fans of Isis not wanting to be [...]
