It’s a rare treat to experience an artist evolve. Either the process is hidden or the audience’s interest dwindles along the way. But, I’ve enjoyed the distinct honor of watching Surachai grow and evolve since first discovering him in Chicago several years back, especially through his last 3 full length albums. “To No Avail” and   Read More …

Coma Records showing no sign of slowing down and even less a sign of adhering to any sort of preconceived notions or prefabricated frameworks for how they operate. After plenty of jungle, dub, IDM, breakcore, breakbeat, and more – now we see Coma offering up their first metal release and it is really something else.   Read More …

So, apparently, for the last 3 years at least, this entity known as Ommadon has been crafting ritualistic feedback driven doom metal in the wilderness of Scotland to little or no acclaim. What a god damned shame that is, let’s be perfectly clear about that. As self-described: Ommadon record heavy doom by ourselves in the   Read More …

Disrespectful and abomination-like noise from a crew with a name I can’t get behind (Compulsive Masturbation Productions), Hateache craft one of the most remarkable offerings in upfront and unadulterated blackened experimental ritualistic noise that you’re likely to hear this year. A few months late on the release date, we are fairly certain you haven’t been hearing this remarkable recording. Described by   Read More …

So, yeah, we are six months late to the party getting this one posted and, additionally, it’s been a longer than usual gap in time since our last entry here. Life sucks, sometimes it’s got you by the balls and there’s nothing you can do about it. Such is the case for our explanation regarding both aforementioned   Read More …

We lost probably the greatest catalyst for cool music ever about 9 years ago. His name was John Peel. He worked for BBC and had arguably the greatest radio show ever. Even well into his elder years he was pushing and promoting forward thinking music of all sorts,  especially electronic varieties. His “Peel Sessions” are   Read More …

Zine’s are a dying breed. Like, paper and ink in your hands types of zines. They’re just exhaling their final breaths, no two ways about it. Blogs initially wanted to be the online version of zines and eventually mutated into something else entirely, this fine blog included – not that this fact is a bad   Read More …

We cited Ash Borer‘s “Cold Of Ages” in our 2012 year end list as the premier black metal record of last year. Here we are barely 2 months into the new year and the band return with a slab of wax to put that release to shame. Gilead Media, a label I stumbled upon last   Read More …

Edasi is the brainchild of an Estonia based lifeform calling himself Mihkel Kleis. Edasi craft a ritualistic and depraved brand of psychedelic blackened improvised noise. This was originally made available in a very limited run cassette release like most the work he’s associated with, but to an even greater extent – “Prehistoric Relaxation” only has 10   Read More …

If you had told me that I’d stumble across more than one rad new metal band from Syria in the course of a couple week’s time, I would’ve told you that you were absolutely crazy – before it actually happened, anyhow. Viieden is a death metal band from Syria which features a member of a   Read More …