Track Premiere: Disrupted – “Chopped into Oblivion”
October 14, 2020 Sean Frasier
Swedeath savages Disrupted team up with LIK frontman Tomas Åkvik for their sharp-edged new single “Chopped into Oblivion.”
Album Review: Benediction – ‘Scriptures’
October 13, 2020 Chris Dick
Over 25 years after their highwater mark, U.K. death dealer Benediction finally transcend the rubicon once more.
EP Premiere: Septage – Septic Decadence
October 13, 2020 Dutch Pearce
Get your brutal death grind fix right here with Septic Decadence, the debut EP from Copenhagen-based gurgling mass Septage, featuring members of Hyperdontia and Taphos.
Blast Worship: HONG KONG FUCK YOU
October 13, 2020 Gene Meyer
Mexican powerviolence purveyors HONG KONG FUCK YOU are coming to the bottom row of a festival flier near you.
Fallow Heart: The Uncertainty Principle, A Biased Observation of Steve Austin, Part 1
October 12, 2020 Forrest Pitts
Part 1 of an exhaustive look at the improbable crossover appeal of Steve Austin’s legendary Today Is the Day.
Track Premiere: Ett Dödens Maskineri – ‘Låsta dörrar’
October 12, 2020 Emily Bellino
Swedish crust band Ett Dödens Maskineri rage against the machine.
Goth Gorgon’s Top 5 Life Events After Mörk Gryning Disbanded
October 12, 2020 Chris Dick
Mörk Gryning mastermind Goth Gorgon reveals the Top 5 things he did after he and co-conspirator Draakh Kimera split from their black metal beast in 2004.
No Corporate Beer Reviews: El Cuatro
October 9, 2020 Nick Green
El Cuatro is sweet but not cloying, and sour but not bracing—sugar and spice and everything nice in one bottle.
For Those About to Squawk: Waldo Pecks on Pallbearer and Old Mother Hell
October 9, 2020 Blake Harrison
Our cooped up correspondent pecks on a pair of modern and classic doom metal this week.
Track Premiere: Perdition Sect – “Plague of Incompetence”
October 9, 2020 Sean Frasier
D-beat supergroup Perdition Sect beckons the apocalypse with the crushing condemnations of “Plague of Incompetence.” Featuring members of Incantation, Ringworm, Shed the Skin and Brain Tentacles.
