BACKLOG is a “whenever the fuck I feel like it” blog feature focusing on how I’m progressing through […]
Author: terraasymmetry
In researching the disturbing history of colonization and cultural eradication of the greater Los Angeles area native peoples […]
Italian doom metal has a glorious experimental history thanks in no small part to the psychedelic, and oft […]
Hailing from the long celebrated blackened port of Bergen, Norway this young and optimistic thrash metal crew arrive […]
Alcohol and I first met back in 1996 at a small impromptu teenaged house party where I was […]
Without shared purpose or true common sense humanity moves towards a sincere and resigned obliteration. In becoming increasingly […]
In lieu of becoming too redundant with my appraisal of the Sunlight Studios/Boss HM-2 guitar pedal sound popularized […]
Despite how much any unemployed pop culture historian argues for the validity and importance of various niche genre […]
When I first heard Swedish extremists Those Who Bring the Torture back in 2007 I shrugged them off […]
Nāḥāš (נחש) the Hebrew word for serpent has been translated by biblical scholars numerous ways as they scramble […]
TEN FROM THE TOMB is a weekly feature in the form of a themed list devoted to grouping […]
Thanks to the magic of databases, personal record keeping, a mild eidetic memory and the efforts of many […]
There is much to be said for the artist that shirks the rapidly increasing trend of constant and […]
Through some cosmic kismet or shared lifelong pursuit of classic heavy metal both Traveler and Coronary formed through […]
The lingering aftertaste of a public and non-communicative divorce more often than not manifests as slow personal resolve […]
No lesser a deity to his cult but pantheonically a daimon by tradition Dionysus appears in recanted visions […]
My introduction to the surreal and brutal realm of Slovak extreme metal came first from interest in rare […]
There are few compilations that were as exciting to discover as Cogumelo Records‘ infamous three part Warfare Noise […]
Say what you will about Aleister Crowley, and there is a lot to say, but one of the […]
Though it took many near complete line-up swaps and some divergent conceptual path-finding São Paulo, Brazil based death […]
