Nine Inch Nails

PH – Osiris Hayden Review

By Huck N Roll on November 13, 2019 in 2019, Drone, Finnish Metal, Industrial Metal, Psychedelic Rock, Reviews, Stoner Rock, Svart Records, Drone, Industrial Metal, Psychedelic Rock, Stoner Rock, 18 comments

“This time around, PH are aiming for something “beyond the limits of modern psychedelia,” something that pulls influence from Gary Numan and Nine Inch Nails. And one of my psychedelic favorites from the past, Julian Cope, fully endorses these guys. This all makes me at least willing to dig in.” Needs more alkaline.

Weltfremd – Nachwelt Review

By Kenstrosity on September 19, 2019 in 2019, Black Metal, Doom Metal, German Metal, Reviews, Self-released, Black Metal, Doom Metal, 9 comments

“One of the great things about reviewing music is the opportunity to drag an underground artist from the depths of the metalverse into the blinding light of day. Sometimes that pans out well for us and, by extension, the artist. Sometimes we end up regretting our choice. The worst feeling in the world as a reviewer, especially one like me who has never written a piece of music in his life, is to say, ‘this album sucks.’ That feeling intensifies when the judged is but a singular human being bravely reaching out and handing their precious work over to us.” Art is pain.

Yer Metal Is Olde: Strapping Young Lad – City

By Dr. Wvrm on June 24, 2017 in American Metal, Century Media, Yer Metal Is Olde, 63 comments

“The impact of music on a life defies logical explanation. Tightened canvas and plucked wire coil happenstance into memory, its outsized fingerprints smudged forever on that crystal of perspective. A recent reunion with friends and acquaintances disinterred the casket of a life left behind, unsettling all of the regrets and flounderings of an angry young man. With that pain comes Strapping Young Lad’s City. The authenticity and aggression; the frothing pace; the ramblings of an unhinged mind; Devin Townsend’s finest work lifted my spirits during my darkest days.” Did you hear it?

Aborym – Shifting.negative Review

By Mark Z. on January 19, 2017 in 2017, Agonia Records, Alt-Metal, Industrial Metal, Italian Metal, Reviews, Alternative Metal, Industrial Metal, 76 comments

“Listening to Shifting.negative makes me want to apologize. To all members of Aborym, and particularly mainman Fabrizio “Fabban” Giannese – I’m sorry for whatever conditions existed in your lives that caused you to think creating this album was a good idea. I also want to apologize to curious listeners, who may have seen Aborym’s past works compared to Anaal Nathrakh and Blut Aus Nord and assumed Shifting was another misanthropic, industrial black metal romp.” The apology tour has begun.

Angela Martyr – November Harvest Review

By Huck N Roll on December 23, 2016 in 2016, Avantgarde Music, Doom Metal, Industrial Metal, Italian Metal, Reviews, Doom Metal, Industrial Metal, 1 comment

“These days, PR companies feel the need to come up with unique classifications and genres for the bands they are repping. I’ve lost count of the number of “new” genres we’ve had to add to our tag system this year. Great example: this new release from Angela Martyr, with a label prominently affixed to the cover declaring the music as ‘grungy, mechanical, pessimistic metalgaze.’ Okay. Why don’t they just say, ‘Sounds like Nine Inch Nails?'” They’re paid by the word, Huckster.

Killing Joke – Pylon Review

By Grymm on October 26, 2015 in 2015, English Metal, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Industrial Metal, Post-Rock, Reviews, Spinefarm, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Industrial Metal, 135 comments

“Many older bands, once established, will eventually coast by just on their name alone. Sure, they’ll cut a new album every few years, but it never lives up to their influential works of yesteryear. It’s often an excuse to go out on the road, play nothing but the classics, and bring home the money while also hocking wares that have nothing to do with the band’s original intent. England’s Killing Joke, however, are a unique beast.” The Joke is on you!

A Swarm of the Sun – The Rifts Review

By Steel Druhm on February 1, 2015 in 2015, Doom Metal, Post-metal, Post-Rock, Reviews, Swedish Metal, Version Studio Records, Doom Metal, Post-Metal, 24 comments

“As my home gets buried under layers of ice and snow, an album arrives to bring that same bleak midwinter experience to everyone, no matter how sunny and tropical their geo-positioning. A Swarm of the Sun is a deeply depressive post-metal, atmospheric doom duo from Sweden, and their sophomore album The Rifts brings you all the isolation, cold and melancholy of being trapped in a cabin surrounded by nothing but whiteness, death and frozen silence.” Tired of feeling positive and happy? This will fix that, maybe permanently.

Caïna – Setter of Unseen Snares Review

By Madam X on January 23, 2015 in 2015, Black Metal, Church of Fuck, English Metal, Post-metal, Post-Rock, Reviews, Skin & Bones Records, Black Metal, Post-Metal, 27 comments

“Caïna certainly aren’t your typical black metal band, they’re not Norwegian, Swedish, American or French as you would expect. In fact, Caïna is the labor of heartache by Englishman Andrew Curtis-Brignell and his band’s discography is all over the map.” Constantly changing and mutating, this act is very hard to pin down. But Madam X has many pins and a will to win.

Angry Metal Guy Speaks: On Kickstarter Remaking the Music Industry

By Angry Metal Guy on May 8, 2012 in Blog Posts, 7 comments

I’m a big fan of Kickstarter. I think that the idea of Kickstarter is truly fantastic; crowd-sourcing capital to avoid the big money parties that have traditionally exploited creators in the name of profit. Particularly in the era of increasingly bad things happening to record labels (and being perpetrated by them), due to their inability […]

How to Destroy Angels – Free Download

By Angry Metal Guy on June 7, 2010 in Blog Posts, 0 comments

Hey there everybody. It has come to my attention that ex-Nine Inch Nails front man Trent Reznor has put out a new demo with his wife doing vocals called How to Destroy Angels. This is free to download here. If you pay $2.00 you can get the files in 44.1khz .wav files (which is CD quality pretty much). Rumor has it that if you like late NIN you’ll like How to Destroy Angels. I am not a fan, personally, of anything that was done in the last few years. But I know a lot of people are, and fuck, I think that Trent Reznor’s dedication to the basically free distribution of his art is totally commendable and he should be encouraged to continue doing so.