Råkkfolk
Nice Hooves – The Gall (No Rest Until Ruin – 2015) It looks like life might be returning to something resembling normal for some in Norway this morning. So boil that brew, chuck this on, and charge down the barrel of this week in style. Nice Hooves sold me upon first contact with this banger […]
Barren Womb – Old Money/New Lows Spartan / Loyal Blood Records – 2018 Barren Womb might be a household name to all you cool cats in the Norwegian underground sipping your Fernet Branca, but what about all those oblivious plebs in the outside world? This duo is a genre-bending wall of noise and punk ethos […]
Coerce – Silver Tongued Life Licker (Capital Games – 2009) I’ve been slack the past few weeks since the world came to a shuddering halt, days have lost their meaning and productivity under house arrest has proved difficult to maintain. This pandemic has everyone on edge and showing their best and worst, I’m not unlike […]
A Secret Death – A Secret Death (Skull & Bones Records – 2008) Last week I featured Palm from Japan and linked a documentary (https://youtu.be/uZ2mKjq529k) of their 2013 Australian tour. As you might have picked up, that documentary was as much about A Secret Death as it was about Palm. Unfortunately I never got the […]
Palm – My Darkest Friends Six Feet Under Records – 2013 It should be apparent by now that what really gets my blood pumping is metal infused hardcore, and these guys from Japan serve it in spades and take it beyond. It’s all in the desperate and immediate energy of punk meeting at a crossroads […]
The Red Chord – Clients (Metal Blade – 2005) I’m a firm believer in hearing the right music at the right time can make the biggest fan out of anyone. In 2008 I made my first trip to Europe and was at a small festival in Germany and had just seen Napalm Death for the […]
Serious Beak – Huxwhukw Art As Catharsis – 2011 It’s been a while since I’ve featured an Art As Catharsis release. AAC is a Sydney record label fuelled by human in perpetual motion, Lachlan R. Dale, he also happens to be one of the guitarists on this spectacular album. I’m still in awe of this […]
Unraveller – Kinship Synthesis The Black Coast – 2012 I’ve already professed my love for Mike ‘Gunface’ McKenzie. His work with The Red Chord blew minds, his solo project Stomach Earth crushed skulls, and Unraveller brought the inner child to life. Watch any of TRCs interviews with Metal Injection and you’ll get slapped in the […]
Employed To Serve – Greyer Than You Remember Holy Roar – 2015 I don’t know if it’s because I’m deep in the rabbit hole of underground music, but these guys seem to just be leveling up every year of their existence and I wouldn’t be surprised to see them with some proper mainstream metal success […]
KEN mode – Venerable Profound Lore – 2011 It took me a couple of years after the first time I heard KEN mode to come around to their sound. I was freshly relocated to Oslo and already had enough new things on my plate. Now I can’t imagine life without their snarky tones. Like a […]