The slow and steady rise to top of the modern kängpunk heap hasn’t managed to fundamentally change the […]
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How telling is it that some of the most fun I’d had as a hardcore punk obsessed teenager […]
In witnessing the upward projecting jut of a newly formed band as they work from concept towards creativity […]
Without the context of reputation, association and cumulative identity how much do you value any new experience? The […]
Anymore I think of the modern day punk rock record as I would an essay from Juan José […]
BRING OUT YOUR DEAD… is a collection of releases from 2018 that deserve honorable mention and short review. […]
The fabled Ponaturi live in great cities beneath the sea only appearing above water in the night to […]
Nailing some kind of fluid set of connections between specific metal and punk sub-genres is an art with […]
The blood-smeared sledgehammer of classic grindcore instrumentation has always depended upon structural developments pulled from a hardcore punk […]
For all of the cumulative atomic payload offered by blackened thrash metal’s youthful excess so little of it […]
To have been revered as such a great and accomplished painter from an era (4th Century BCE) where […]
TEN FROM THE TOMB is a weekly feature in the form of a themed list devoted to grouping […]
The second full-length from German crust-informed black metal act Hermann merely refines a conceptual unity among four members of Berlin’s […]
Formed as a deathly sick hardcore/crust punk side-project between Cathedral‘s post-‘Statik Majik’ touring line-up sans Mark Ramsay (Acid Reign, […]
Thanks to the magic of databases, personal record keeping, a mild eidetic memory and the efforts of many […]
The legacy of East Bay hardcore punk band Christ On Parade is most often portrayed as a vibrant […]
Here I present, in no particular order, roughly 30 releases from 2017 that I overlooked or did not […]
Always on the hunt for mixtures of extreme metal and crust punk, it was hard to miss the […]
From the first shout to the final ringing chord Danish metallic hardcore punk band Parasight engage the listener […]
Formed from a collision of Martyrdöd, Bombs of Hades, Miasmal and At the Gates members, Agrimonia defied expectations […]
