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SHORT BUT SWEET: PYRRHON —“RUNNING OUT OF SKIN”
(Austin Weber reviews the surprising new EP by Pyrrhon.) Since their inception, NYC-based death metal weirdos Pyrrhon have developed a reputation as an experimental force to be reckoned with. And...
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SHORT BUT SWEET: REMEMBER THAT YOU WILL DIE — S/T
(Andy Synn reviews the new EP by Remember That You Will Die, whose members come from Australia and The Netherlands.) When a band decides to call itself Remember That You Will Die, it’s a pretty safe...
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AN NCS PREMIERE (AND A REVIEW): INFINITE DEATH —“IN DESPAIR”
Almost exactly two years ago I came across a debut EP named Beyond the Gates by a Southern California band named Infinite Death, and spilled some words about it here. Infinite Death have now...
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SHORT BUT SWEET: HISSING — S/T
I’ve been meaning to write about the 2015 self-titled EP by Seattle’s Hissing for a long time, but now that it’s being re-issued in CD format by Jeff Wilson’s Disorder Recordings today, I’ve been...
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SHADES OF BLACK (PART 1): GJENDØD, HAVUKRUUNU, HEIR, INCLEMENCY
This is Part 1 of a collection of very good new music in the orbit of black metal that I encountered over the last week. Once again, I found a lot to like — so much that I decided to divide the...
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SHADES OF BLACK (PART 2): LATHSPELL, OREWOET, SEVENTH XUL, WILDERNESSKING
In my musical explorations over the last week I came across a lot of new black metal that I wanted to recommend. To make the rollout of the music a little more easily digestible, I divided the...
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AN NCS PREMIERE: ASKESIS —“THE PATH TO ABSENCE”
By all accounts, and from photos and films I’ve seen, Venice is one of the world’s most unique and beautiful cities, a magical place that seems to inspire art that is likewise not entirely of this...
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SHORT BUT SWEET: IMPERIAL TRIUMPHANT —“INCESTE”
(Austin Weber reviews the new EP by NY’s Imperial Triumphant — who just released another new song from the EP.) Watching Imperial Triumphant grow and morph in so many odd directions over the years...
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AN NCS PREMIERE: GJENDØD —“GJENDØD”
Last weekend I came across a pair of songs from a forthcoming self-titled EP by a mysterious Norwegian black metal band named Gjendød, and the songs were so immediately gripping that I wasted no...
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SHORT BUT SWEET: CONCATENATUS —“AEONIC DISSONANCES BEYOND LIGHT’S CONSUMPTION”
I was drawn to this debut release by the eye-catching cover art of the Chilean artist Daniel Hermosilla (Nox Fragor Art), which I posted on our FB page not long ago (where it received an...
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SHORT BUT SWEET: KHANUS, SEA
I’ve collected in this post reviews of two EPs that I’ve been enjoying lately and would like to recommend. KHANUS The Finnish band Khanus first released their debut EP, Rites of Fire, in February of...
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SHADES OF BLACK: NAÐRA, SVARTIDAUÐI, DEATHBRINGER, OATH, TREES CLOUDS &...
So much music, so little time. In this post I’ve collected some recent black (or blackened) metal releases, and a few songs from forthcoming ones, that I’ve been enjoying, plus one other excerpt of...
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AN NCS EP PREMIERE (AND A REVIEW): FALSE GODS —“WASTELAND”
Wasteland is the name of the debut EP by New York’s False Gods, and it’s a well-chosen title because this massively heavy, staggeringly bleak, and frequently hallucinatory EP seems like a musical...
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AN NCS PREMIERE: FISTER AND TEETH — A SPLIT
On April 29, the New York label Broken Limbs will release a 7″ vinyl split by two stunningly powerful bands — Fister from St. Louis, Missouri, and California’s TEETH — and at the bottom of this post...
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SHADES OF BLACK: SEA OF BONES, HÄXENZIJTKELL, HVØSCH, SHYY
Most of the music in this Shades of Black series comes from the realms of black metal, but not all of it. Music can be black for other reasons as well, as demonstrated by the first of the four bands...
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AN NCS PREMIERE: REVULSION —“DRAIN / REJECT MYSELF”
When a band name themselves Revulsion, it’s a safe bet that they’re not going to play break-up songs, narcotic stoner jams, or ambient drone. Of course, that still leaves a lot of open territory,...
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AN NCS PREMIERE (AND A REVIEW): HELLS —“PARADISE”
Tomorrow — May 13 — Seeing Red Records will release Paradise, the debut EP of a Philadelphia band appropriately named HELLS, and today we bring you a full stream of its six head-wrecking tracks....
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SKULL SMASHERS: AMONG GODS, DECEPTIONIST, GRIMUS, HIPOXIA, MINDWARP, MINOTAUR...
Is this too much? Songs, albums, and EPs from ten bands collected in a single post instead of divided up and spread out over time so you can have recovery periods in between the skull-fracturing?...
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AN NCS PREMIERE (AND A REVIEW): IN TWILIGHT’S EMBRACE —“TREMBLING”
For me and many others, The Grim Muse by Poland’s In Twilight’s Embrace was one of 2015’s highlights — a multifaceted and uniformly strong melodic death metal album loaded with fantastic riffs,...
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SHORT BUT SWEET: HISSING — S/T
(Allen Griffin reviews the new self-titled 7″ EP by Hissing.) Seattle trio Hissing is one of the latest additions to Southern Lord’s formidable roster and they are poised to release their...
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