Live from the Pit: Sanguisugabogg @ Foufounes Electriques – 05/09/2024

Sanguisugabogg @ Foufounes Electriquesw/ Jesus Piece, Peeling Flesh, GagMay 9th, 2024Extensive EnterpriseMontreal, Quebec, Canada Sangusiugabogg have undoubtedly had one of the most meteoric rises in the world of underground death metal over the past couple of years. The band cropped up on my radar a few years ago and I've only continued to hear about …

Album Review: Infant Island – Obsidian Wreath

"I've been watching ships go under. Cold fingers drag the captain down. Transfixed by violent thunder. The hand of God can't save them now." Infant Island - Obsidian WreathJanuary 12th, 2024Blackgaze / Post Black Metal / ScreamoSecret VoiceFredericksburg, Virginia, USA Virginia screamo outfit Infant Island are back with their fourth record in a fairly short …

Live from the Pit: Devil Master @ Cabaret Foufounes – 11/03/2023

Devil Master @ Cabaret FoufounesW/ Fuming Mouth, Final Gasp, SkumstrikeNovember 3rd, 2023Extensive EnterpriseMontreal, Quebec, Canada Devil Master are one of the few bands who I will go out of my way to see every single time they come to Montreal. I saw them pre-pandemic twice, once with Obituary and Abbath, and another time with Power …

Live from the Pit: Exciter @ Foufounes Electriques – 10/19/2023

Exciter @ Foufounes Electriquesw/ Tower, and SamuraiOctober 19th, 2023Dungeon Works ProductionsMontreal, Quebec, Canada Exciter are a legendary Canadian heavy metal band, no doubt. One of the earliest groups purporting the style of speed metal that broke through the boundary into thrash early on in the 80's, their 1983 record Heavy Metal Maniac is a bona …

Live from the Pit: Tomb Mold @ Foufounes Electriques – 09/16/2023

Tomb Mold@ Foufounes ElectriquesW/ Outer Heaven, and Serpent Corpse I have to be honest that I've never really gotten into Tomb Mold's music all that much in the past. I always recognized them as a very competent death metal band with some very talented musicians behind each record, but for some reason it never clicked …

Live from the Pit: Escuela Grind @ Foufounes Electriques – 03/29/2023

Escuela Grind@ Cabaret FoufounesW/ Bonginator, Xplicit Noize Escuela Grind are one of the hottest bands in my circle of friends at the moment. We were all fawning over their new record Memory Theater, which I consider to be one of the best records that dropped last year. As such, when they showed up here in …

EP Review: Cohezion – Diztorted Vision

"Drifting slowly towards the end. Humbled to know that there's no turning back." Cohezion - Diztorted VisionNovember 4th, 2022Hardcore / BeatdownIndependently ReleasedToronto, Ontario, Canada I first became aware of the Toronto hardcore / beatdown outfit Cohezion when they showed up in Montreal to play a big hardcore show at Foufounes Electriques near the end of …

Album Review: Razor – Cycle of Contempt

"You like to make up rules from which you are exempt, so I will end you and this cycle of contempt." Razor - Cycle of ContemptSeptember 23rd, 2022Thrash MetalRelapse RecordsGuelph, Ontario, Canada I've been familiar with Razor for quite some time. Ever since I first discovered their 1988 record Violent Restitution in a record store …

Live from the Pit: Conan @ Foufounes Electriques – 10/27/2022

Conan @ Foufounes ElectriquesW/ Dopethrone, WiltOctober 27th, 2022 Is there any band in the doom metal world that is heavier than Conan? Wait, don't answer that. I'm sure someone will come up with some example of a band that pretends to be heavier than Liverpool's own, but in my opinion, very few artists come close. …

Live from the Pit: Creeping Death @ Bar Le Ritz PDB – 09/05/2022

Creeping Death @ Bar Le Ritz PDBW/ 200 Stab Wounds, Vomit Forth, Spirit World, Tribal GazeSeptember 5th, 2022 Is there anything better to do on a Monday night when you have work the next day than go to a five band death metal extravaganza? I think not! Huge thanks to my pal Jordan who got …