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SWEET COBRA – EARTH (Dark Operative – 2015) I still don’t know what to call these guys, and that’s okay, if not preferable. These guys came to me at a time when I needed respite from the heavy realities of life, but I couldn’t stomach anything remotely ‘happy’ sounding. It was sincere and just positive […]
OBLIVIONIZED – LIFE IS A STRUGGLE, GIVE UP (Secret Law Records – 2015) I’m a big fan of power-trios, especially ones as vicious as this. Drums, guitar and vocals. It doesn’t sound like much, but when you’ve got rapid-fire shred doubled through a bass amp attacking your face like a swarm of bees, it’s more […]
LOOK WHAT I DID – ATLAS DRUGGED (Modernist Movement – 2010) I have a habit of falling down dark rabbit holes when it comes to music, but every now and then an album comes along that reminds me not to take things too seriously and just have fun. That’s not to say this album doesn’t […]
Botch – We Are The Romans (Hydra Head – 1999) The often forgotten grandfathers of jagged metallic hardcore. Right up there with The Dillinger Escape Plan, these guys split off after this swan song to form bands including Russian Circles, Minus the Bear, These Arms are Snakes, Narrows, and most recently Sumac. Never lacking complexity, […]
GENGHIS TRON – BOARD UP THE HOUSE Relapse Records – 2008 I get the feeling that the reason these guys disappeared after this masterpiece of an album is because they went back to where they came from – the future. The opening track offers a perfect taste of all that’s to come, but it’s the […]
Orgone – The Goliath Self released – 2007 Remember MySpace? Before it’s eventual end, there was an explosion of bands like Job For A Cowboy, but buried deep in all of that noise I found this band. Overly ambitious and pretentious. I was sold. I ordered the CD directly from them via direct message, delivered […]