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So, the last few months/weeks/days I’ve been getting progressively more excited by the prospect of new Orchid releases, specifically The Mouths of Madness being released April 26. I love me some Orchid. Here’s a brief refresher course for you, the
Pallbearer are Candlemass, if they were John D. Cronise’s baby from Austin, TX rather than Leif Edling’s from Stockholm, Sweden. Sorrow and Extinction, on Profound Lore, has a scruffy, low-fi, hipster solemn majesty about it; one quasi-religious, madrigal-like, evoking monks and monasteries
Sorry I’ve been away for a bit; school and all that crap. Anyway, here’s the best of what I’ve been listening to lately that is also new. And this, just for you. Here, you may find those battered bits of
If this isn’t on Bill’s end-of-year list, I’m maxing out my credit cards for strippers, because the world’s about to end… Like Graveyard, their nearest common ancestor/ contemporary, in the same way that identical twins are alike: One is slutty,
So, some marginally-irrelevant preamble: I’m tuning new strings on the guitar (Monster heavy series– the dude from Exhumed told me about them in Decibel!) tuned down two steps to C standard. I try to break in strings gradually by half-assed
Per their one-sheet info: Arcata, California’s Ash Borer formed several years ago; they play “very harsh and bleak time-stretching atmospheric, ambient, yet searing raw black metal.” Unusually for ad copy, this is very true. What it doesn’t mention is that Cold of Ages (out August
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See what they did there, with the title?? Anyhoo, this is apparently going to be a dual (duel?) review of both the Oregon doomster’s latest opus (out June 12, 2012) and Wells & Young’s Ltd. Banana Bread Beer. I hadn’t
