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In Case You Missed It: Down I Go – You’re Lucky God, That I Cannot Reach You
Writer’s block can be a troubling thing when you’re sitting down and trying to conjure up a series of words and ideas that you’d like to communicate with others. Countless hours can sometimes be spent...
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Bump N’ Grind: Three Things Missed From 2015 and One From 2012
2015 may be through with us, but we ain’t through with 2015. Over the course of the holiday season, I ran into some quality bands that are more than worthy of praise. There’s plenty of stuff in this...
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Record Swap: Deuce Vs. Simon Phoenix
Today’s edition of Record Swap has two staunch genre-writers squaring off. Thrash-maven Simon Phoenix is taking on grind-maniac Ron Deuce. Who will triumph? Will anyone survive? Find out, on this...
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Review: Love Sex Machine – Asexual Anger
Love Sex Machine’s self-titled debut album caused quite a stir in the metal community upon release in 2012. If you weren’t already curious about what they were getting at with song titles like “Killed...
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Flush It Friday: Getting Elderly
Another menacing week has come to its rightful conclusion, and this Toilet Ov Hell scribe will be ending it in spectacular fashion. No, not by suicide, but by celebrating a birthday. You’re invited to...
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An Evening With HUSH and Bleak
No dicks left alive. Not a single god damn one. I promised my wife I would be home by midnight. She needed a good night’s sleep, and I would take care of the kids for the rest of the evening since she...
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Let Zeal And Ardor Hit You With Some Blackened Blues
As music listeners, we consume and digest so much that we’ll often think we’ve heard it all, but then something inconceivable makes its way to our ear drums and reminds us that we have not, in fact,...
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While You’re Waiting For A New Converge Album, Why Don’t You Curl Up And Die...
I’m not asking you, I’m telling you. For those who have never heard of punk/metallic hardcore miscreants Curl Up And Die, let’s travel back in time and return to a place where punk rock intersected...
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Think Tank: Bad Mood Therapy
Every single one of us has to endure a stretch of days where, for one reason or another, things just do not go right. Some people handle it better than others. My own personal method is to medicate...
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Review: Bleak – No Light, No Tunnel
Artists seem to take at least a year to recover between album releases, if not longer. Syracuse, NY’s Bleak are bucking that trend by gifting us a new album within less than a year since the release...
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Nasty: Look At Me and F___ You: A Video Breakdown
A video breakdown featuring nothing but breakdowns. Nasty are a no frills ignorant goon mosh band from Belgium. The video below is for the song “Look At Me and Fuck You.” If we are to take this gem...
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Deathcore Bands – Meet The Chug-O-Meter
Deathcore has gotten a bad rap, and the criticisms against it are most definitely justified. Most bands are a carbon copy of one another, and it’s hard to make a distinction between any of them. If...
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Review: Norma Jean – Polar Similar
Norma Jean have been around for a minute, 20 years worth of minutes to be exact. And somewhere along the way from their early beginnings as a chaotic hardcore band that specialized in aping Botch and...
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Premiere: “Sirens” From Vorvaň’s Once Love Was Lost + Full Album Review
For whatever reason, bands from Russia don’t seem to be on anyone’s radar here in North America. Has Obama imposed an embargo on all music from the country because of diplomatic tensions between the...
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Linkin Attila – Bulletproof: A Video Breakdown
Limp Attila, Fronz Biscuit, Attila Park, whatever you want to call it, everyone’s favorite most punchable face is back with a new video. Rejoice everyone! Attila, the kings of genericore have returned...
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In Case You Missed It In 2014: This Fire Split Between Pariso And Svalbard
Dear 2014 and Internet, why didn’t you tell me about this? This is all your fault that I didn’t catch this split between two excellent bands from Great Britain. I have remedied that by putting on the...
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Bump N’ Grind: Gettin’ Loose With Seuss
It has been too long since we have Bumped and Grinded (ground?), ladies and gentlemen. Dr. Seuss was a wise man and if you need evidence of that, look no further than the header image above. The...
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You Send Us Things, We Listen To Them: Sycomore – Phantom Wax
One of the things that brings me great joy from doing this whole blogging thing is when you write something about a band you particularly enjoy and you develop a relationship with the band simply...
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Review: The Drip– The Haunting Fear Of Inevitability
We’re just a few short weeks into 2017 and it didn’t take long for a standout album to surface. Richland, Washington’s The Drip have delivered one of the the first killer albums in a year where we all...
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Don Songs – Sign of The Times: Prelude To An Orange Presidency
It’s impossible not to notice the dramatic shift in the way the United States has started to govern since on or around January 20th of this foul year of 2017. Some guy, let’s call him Don, got a job...
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