Tag Archives: Metal

24
Apr

HOWL: Bloodlines Streaming In Full Courtesy Of MetalSucks

Today the metal hooligans at MetalSucks want you to scrape your face across the pavement and cry with a full stream of Bloodlines from Rhode Island audio arsonists HOWL! Set for North American release next week, the ever-bludgeoning Bloodlines was

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22
Feb

Orchid, and why you should love them

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

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11
Feb

Daily Bandcamp Album; Twelve Miles To Madness by Brachiosauride

“Twelve miles to madness, twelve steps to evolution, twelve phases of permission, twelve doors to oblivion. Brachiosauride’s second full-length, “Twelve Miles To Madness” is a giant concept record running over 98 minutes, a twelve-step monomyth which is a an allegorical

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03
Feb

Microreviews –Pallbearer, Triptykon and Bell Witch

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

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30
Jan

Review; Mosquito Hawk EP by Mosquito Hawk

Bio: Mosquito Hawk is a hard rock/metal/punk band from Olympia, Washington (featuring members of C/Average, Bacchus, Fitz of Depression, and all-girl Sabbath cover band Black Bettie) Founded in the summer of 2010 when guitarist Jon Merithew and bassist Phil Heinz

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29
Jan

Daily Bandcamp Album; Champagne of Fear by Poor Bastards Revolt!

“PBR formed back in 2006. Steve Colca had moved back from Chicago with collection of riffs and wanted to start a three piece metal/rock project. In the first formation, Duncan (bassist) and Al (drummer) had accompanied Steve and played a

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18
Jan

Tiny Chunks of Doom Reviews

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

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07
Jan

THE BRONX PREMIERE “YOUTH WASTED” FROM NEW ALBUM OUT FEBRUARY 5

The Bronx To Perform Record Release Shows in Los Angeles (February 2) and New York (February 5) In Anticipation of The Bronx (IV) January 7, 2013 – Los Angeles, CA – Esteemed Los Angeles punk rock band The Bronx has

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22
Nov

Review– Witchcraft– Legend

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,

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09
Nov

Relapse Records: Launch Free Sampler

Relapse Records has released a free 21 song digital sampler featuring highlights from all of the label’s 2012 releases plus a preview of what’s in store for next year.  The sampler contains tracks from genre leaders PIG DESTROYER, BARONESS, DYING

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