Album Of The Week: Kvelertak Meir
I love a lot of underground metal, but I'm a pretty bad underground metal fan.
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I love a lot of underground metal, but I'm a pretty bad underground metal fan.
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Jungle Rot have one of the more fascinating career arcs in recent memory.
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It's a very particular, pivotal moment in your life when you start phoning up your local council to report potholes and faulty manhole covers, once it's done there's no turning back and you'll have forever joined the fraternity of the suburban dammed, the curtain-twitching cunts with better looking geraniums than record collections.
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Next month, Darkthrone will release The Underground Resistance , their 16th studio LP (or 15th, depending on how you catalog these things).
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Congrats to Decibel Magazine on their 100th issue, who celebrated in style in their native Philadelphia on Jan 19th at Union Transfer.
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Nightrage vocalist Antony Hämäläinen was unable to make the band's gig at the Gothenburg Sound Festival in Sweden this past weekend due to a scheduling conflict, but not to worry: the band hired a perfectly suitable replacement to fill in for the gig.
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Last night, I headed to Philly's First Unitarian Church to catch melodic/grind/hardcore dudes Ghostlimb.
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Midnight are the fantasy band that exist in the moment when Black Flag supported Venom in New Jersey, and Henry Rollins was rapt with respect for the headliners' wild Satanic abandon.
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When, lately, the sum of your intellectual pursuits amounts to nothing more than a mild Mythbusters addiction, these intros get harder and harder to come up with – yet somehow I've still learned: 1) That it was fucking great to see Nasum return for one last time.
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The brilliant hardcore band Converge have been around a long time, though you might not guess it from the manic energy crammed into their eighth album, All We Love We Leave Behind.
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Converge's eighth album, All We Love We Leave Behind , is out October 9 on Epitaph (with a vinyl edition on vocalist Jacob Bannon's Deathwish Inc. ). AWLWLB follows Axe to Fall , a record that landed at the No. 1 spot of my 2009 year-end list.
Read MoreOne of Europe's best festivals dedicated to heavy music is taking their show on the road.
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You can purchase a legal download right here for a whopping three dollars.
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Normally I think that thirty-second song previews are bullshit (it's like watching one little tiny dialogue exchange from a movie to try and get a feel for the whole scene), but most thirty-second song previews don't come from the previously-announced Converge/Napalm Death split.
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They've been away for a bit, but Zeke will return to the East Coast to play Hoboken at Maxwell's on July 21st with Buzzkill.
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Converge's side will consist of "No Light Escapes," the new song the band has been playing live as of late , and "a 'We Are The World' styled rendition of the influential Entombed classic 'Wolverine Blues featuring guest appearances by Tomas Lindberg (Disfear, At The Gates, Lock Up), Aaron Turner (Isis, Old Man Gloom, Split Cranium), Kevin Baker (All Pigs Must Die, The Hope Conspiracy), Brian Izzi (Trap Them), "and more." Meanwhile, Napalm Death's side will "offer up two new aural monsters," entitled "Will By Mouth" and "No Impediment To Triumph (Bhopal)."
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As even the smallest corners of daily life get increasingly cluttered, I find myself reaching for streamlined and straightforward music, things that remind me of what I was listening to before I had an email address.
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The members of trans-Atlantic punk foursome Split Cranium must have had Cheshire Cat grins on their faces as they bashed the shit out of their instruments and larynxes recording this, their eponymous debut.
Read MoreJussi Lehtisalo of Finnish avant-noise/metal/psych shape-shifters Circle , Pharaoh Overlord , and a thousand other projects was working on "artsy-fartsy free-noise-rock improvisations" with drummer Jukka Kroger (FM2000) when they decided to take a few steps back, simplify, and plow through a set of straight-ahead punk.
Read MoreColumbus, OH's Struck by Lightning play crusty, propulsive punk-infused metal, the kind that brings to mind Trap Them and Disfear and other d-beat proponents.
Read MoreScreaming Records are now streaming a tune from the new Parasight 7" "Moral recession" at Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/screamingrecords If you dig metallic d-beat/hardcore ala late-era Disfear or Black Breath , you'll dig this.
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Let's be honest, the prospect of a band featuring a member of Fall Out Boy isn't the most enticing.
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Ever since I first saw American Nightmare (aka Give Up The Ghost) back in 2003 with the Hope Conspiracy, they became one of my favorite hardcore bands, and I've been annoying my friends ever since saying that I wish they would play a fucking reunion show.
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Balam Acab 1:30, Trust 12:30, True Womanhood 11:30...
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Lock Up — the supergroup (for lack of a better term) featuring Tomas Lindberg of At the Gates/Disfear fame, Napalm Death's Shane Embury, super-famous-drummer-dude Nicolas Barker, and Pentagram's Anton Reisenegger — have never tour the U.S. before… but that's gonna change in February, when the band will cross the ocean to do a headlining run here in the States.
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Did you read it and immediately think, without logically evaluating anything, "Holy Christ! Why the goddamn hell do I not know the crucial differences in these sub- sub- sub- sub-genres of metal?!?!" [Not sure why I'm making you sound like Hunter Thompson.]
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