Waldo pecks it out about babies, goats, weapons and veins. 

The Curse That Is
Turn of the Tide
dB Rating: 8/10

We catch up with Fallujah vocalist Alex Hofmann for a quick chat.

On this week’s Demo:listen, we submit to the fiendish noise and abandoned floggings of Portland’s Dagger Lust.

“This video shows what we are, doing what we do in this band. No pretense, no overblown image, no bullshit, no gimmicks, no artificial/cheap attention grab. This video IS NAILS.”

In anticipation of Choosing Death Fest, get your weird on with Horrendous.

Commencing with the ritualistic application of corpse paint, feature-length documentary Blackhearts shares the stories of three black metal bands from drastically different backgrounds visiting the genre’s birthplace in Norway.

To celebrate the 5th anniversary of Saint Vitus Bar, as well as the release date of Primitive Weapons’ new album The Future of Death, David Castillo looks back at some of the club’s best shows so far.

“Only a handful of bands dare to leave the narrow(minded) frame which dictates what is so-called ‘true’ and what earns a negative connotation as ‘hip’. 95% of these traditionalist bands are the copycats of the copycats of the early 90ies Norwegian scene.”

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