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Lusca – Broken Colossus Review

Lusca – Broken Colossus Review

By Saunders on May 2, 2018 in 2018, Experimental Metal, German Metal, Industrial Metal, Musical Tragedies Entertainment, Reviews, Drone, Industrial Metal, Noise, Sludge, 29 comments

“I consider myself to be pretty open-minded when it comes to music, and metal, in particular. Sure, I can be a cynical, judgmental prick and easily fall back on old favorites and genre staples to satisfy my listening urges, but generally, I give things a shot and like to occasionally deviate outside my comfort zone. Thankfully the reviewing game provides ample opportunity to divulge in the unfamiliar and uncomfortable, so the powers above assigned the mysterious Lusca for my listening pleasure and subsequent dissection.” Be careful what you wish for, kids.

Among The Rocks And Roots – Raga Review

Among The Rocks And Roots – Raga Review

By Roquentin on March 5, 2018 in 2018, American Metal, Avante Garde, Doom Metal, Drone, Noise, PTP, Reviews, Doom Metal, Drone, Noise, Noise Metal, Sludge Metal, 44 comments

“Music as ‘just entertainment’ is a solipsistic and fairly recent notion. Throughout the history of humankind, various forms of music have instead been tightly woven into the communities that birthed them, shaping and steering social bonds. Even if this fact has been conveniently hidden in the deepest crevices of our collective memories, helped by capitalism’s commodification of art, music as a concept outside the ludic and academically autotelic still exists in the cultures of indigenous people like the Tuvans. Their shamans perform songs primarily to heal and such music becomes a bridge between the spiritual and the physical. Richmond duo Among The Rocks And Roots are one of those rare contemporary groups which successfully tap into that subliminal, metaphysical source and simultaneously reach somewhere beyond their own ids.” Id Rock.

Uniform – Wake in Fright Review

Uniform – Wake in Fright Review

By Treble Yell on January 17, 2017 in 2017, American Metal, Industrial Metal, Noise, Reviews, Sacred Bones Records, Thrash Metal, Industrial Metal, Noise, Thrash Metal, 31 comments

“‘May you dream of the devil and wake in fright.’ This old curse serves as the inspiration for the novel and later film adaptation Wake in Fright, a harrowing descent into madness that tells the tale of an English school teacher in a remote Australian town who wrestles with conformity, misery and the innate self-destruction that clings to man like a shadow.” To sleep, per-chase to scream.

Laster – Ons Vrije Fatum Review

Laster – Ons Vrije Fatum Review

By Lord Lucan on January 6, 2017 in 2017, Ambient Metal, Black Metal, Dunkelheit Produktionen, Dutch Metal, Electronica Metal, Noise, Progressive Metal, Progressive Rock, Reviews, Ambient, Black Metal, Noise, Progressive Metal, 14 comments

“Attempting to categorize Laster is like trying to catch air with a net, but in a hypothetical “pick a genre or die” kind of scenario, one would probably end up lumping them in with the blackened shoegaze crowd. To do so would be a crass oversimplification, however, as their music incorporates an absurdly diverse range of elements and influences.” AMG policy requires air nets be worn at all times.

OvO – Creatura Review

OvO – Creatura Review

By Treble Yell on December 11, 2016 in 2016, Dio Drone, Industrial Metal, Italian Metal, Noise, Reviews, Drone, Noise, 9 comments

“When faced with a work of art that purports to be avant-garde, invariably a question must be asked: is the all-but-total abandonment of classical song structure and melody a hallmark of innovation and a refutation of the musical establishment or is it merely the flotsam-and-jetsam of musicians lacking the skills to write a decent song in the first place?” Challenging.

Gnaw Their Tongues – Hymns for the Broken, Swollen and Silent Review

Gnaw Their Tongues – Hymns for the Broken, Swollen and Silent Review

By Lord Lucan on December 10, 2016 in 2016, Black Metal, ConSouling Sounds, Drone, Dutch Metal, Noise, Reviews, Black Metal, Noise, 11 comments

“Whenever I see bands like Slayer and Motörhead emblazoned across shirts for sale in fashionable high street clothing stores, I always have a little internal conflict with myself. On the one hand, I feel I ought to be enthusiastic about anything that introduces people to the world of heavy music. On the other, a childish part of me kind of likes metal being a bit of a secret society.” Join the club but prepare for hazing.

Plebeian Grandstand – False Highs, True Lows Review

Plebeian Grandstand – False Highs, True Lows Review

By Kronos on April 22, 2016 in 2016, Avante Garde, Black Metal, French Metal, Hardcore, Releases, Reviews, Throatruiner Records, Black Metal, Mathcore, Noise, 38 comments

Plebeian Grandstand is a name destined for immortality. Over the course of two albums – 2011’s How Hate is Hard to Define and 2014’s Lowgazers, the Tolousian group have annihilated any doubt as to their supremacy in extremity. How Hate is Hard to Define’s distillation of noise, black metal and mathcore proved their worth as ‘the angriest band on the planet,’ but the sheer ambition of Lowgazers propelled the group somewhere further.” Prepare to be destroyed.

Twin Lords – Devastating Planetary Shift Review

Twin Lords – Devastating Planetary Shift Review

By Mark Z. on October 8, 2015 in 2015, Ambient Metal, American Metal, Handshake Inc, Non-Metal Metal Things, Progressive Metal, Reviews, Sludge, Noise, Powerviolence, Progressive Metal, Sludge Metal, 14 comments

“There’s precious little information to be found about Twin Lords anywhere, and Shift is the New York duo’s debut album after a 2012 demo. Furthermore, the music itself offers no easy points of comparison. I’ve seen them tagged as everything from “progressive” to “sludge” to “powerviolence,” and having listened to the album myself numerous times, I’m still not sure what I’d classify Twin Lords as.” How can we do our job if we can’t pigeonhole into neat little boxes?