EP Review: Blister Sister – Geomorph

Blister Sister - GeomorphJune 25th, 2022Experimental / Progressive PunkGeomorphs RecordsMontreal, Quebec, Canada I'm engaging in a bit of nepotism here because I know the guys from Blister Sister personally. My own bands have played and are going to continue playing multiple shows with them. The band has existed since at least July of 2020 with …

Album Review: Archspire – Bleed the Future

"Disintegrate the carotid barrel in our ever grinding wheel of meat". Archspire - Bleed the FutureOctober 29th, 2021Technical Death MetalSeason of MistVancouver, British Columbia, Canada I first listened to Archspire back in 2017 when their third album, Relentless Mutation, dropped, and I remember being blown the absolute fuck away. I had no idea technical death …

Album Review: Christian Death – Evil Becomes Rule

"I want you to look beautiful, at my funeral, so beautiful." Christian Death - Evil Becomes RuleMay 6th, 2022Goth Rock / Death RockSeason of MistLos Angeles, California, USA Goth rock is one of those genres that I've always wanted to get really into in theory but had never really put the time towards. Lately, however, …

Live from the Pit: Suffocation @ Le Studio TD – 06/22/2022

Suffocation @ Le Studio TDW/ Atheist, SoreptionJune 22nd, 2022 While the header of this article may read Suffocation, I must make clear that that is only because they were the headlining, as that is the format I've chose for the 'Live from the Pit' segment that we do here on this blog. But if I'm …

Album Review: Gnome – King

"Ambrosius, -brosius, you can sleep on the ground!" Gnome - KingMay 6th, 2022Stoner Metal / Progressive RockPolder RecordsAntwerp, Belgium Belgian hard rock trio Gnome weren't exactly what I was expecting to come across thanks to my YouTube recommendations, but when I saw the thumbnail for the music video for "Ambrosius", curiosity got the better of …

Series Review: Daria – Season 3

"You're getting paranoid. It's probably just an informal get-together of local stalkers. You know, hang out, swap stories, try out each other's skeleton keys." - Daria Morgendorffer Daria - Season 3Created by Glenn Eichler and Susie Lewis LynnFebruary 17th, 1999Animated SitcomMTV Animation / MTV NetworksUnited States of America It hasn't taken long for my partner …

Album Review: ACxDC – The Oracles of Death

"A never ending process of consumption, without restraint assuring our destruction." ACxDC - The Oracles of DeathJuly 31st, 2020Powerviolence / GrindcoreMelotov RecordsLos Angeles, California, USA I was recently turned onto ACxDC after my partner took a deep dive down the world of powerviolence and started introducing me to a bunch of bands they were hoping …

Album Review: Devil Master – Ecstasies of Never Ending Night

Devil Master - Ecstasies of Never Ending NightApril 29th, 2022Blackened Punk / Gothic Metal / Metal PunkRelapse RecordsPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania, USA When Philadelphia metal punk upstarts Devil Master dropped their debut full length record, Satan Spits on Children of Light, in 2019, I was absolutely dumbfounded by what I heard. The combination of weird, psychedelic, almost …

Album Review: Undeath – It’s Time… to Rise from the Grave

Undeath - It's Time... to Rise from the GraveApril 22nd, 2022Death MetalProsthetic RecordsRochester, New York, USA New York death metal upstarts Undeath have certainly made a splash on the modern death metal scene. With their first record, Lesions of a Different Kind, ending up on Anthony Fantano's year-end list of best records of 2020 as …

Album Review: Carpenter Brut – Leather Terror

Carpenter Brut - Leather TerrorApril 1st, 2022SynthwaveNo Quarter ProductionsFrance I've been a fan of Carpenter Brut since the release of the French electronic musician's debut record, Trilogy, which was released in 2015. Since then the artist has been pushing the boundaries of the retro 80's synthwave sound that they created on that record and have …