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Album Review: Moon Oracle – Muse Of The Nightside

Well, what have we here? Something original and different, instead of another retread of ’80s or ’90s black metal? Yes indeed, and it’s about time. MOON ORACLE is from the “freaked out” branch of the black metal tree. In the end, my interest in Muse Of The Nightside kind of fades away, but I sure give the band credit for trying to rock the boat here. You know the typical complaint where bass guitar seems to get short-changed in black metal? Well, MOON ORACLE comes pretty close to overcompensating for this. The bass is the overwhelming be-all and end-all of […]

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FIRE IN THE MOUNTAINS MMXXII – Final Lineup Update

The entire slate of music performances for FIRE IN THE MOUNTAINS MMXXII has been announced, and we could not be more honored to host so many unique and impassioned artists here before the majesty of the Tetons. Tickets are on Sale now in our bio. FIRE IN THE MOUNTAINS 2022: ENSLAVED WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM EMMA RUTH RUNDLE YOB STEVE VON TILL HEXVESSEL ETERNAL CHAMPION VISIGOTH WAYFARER OBSEQUIAE YELLOW EYES DREADNOUGHT IVAR BJORNSON’S BARDSPEC MIKE SCHEIDT DBUK HAUNTER TCHORNOBOG NECHOCHWEN ACOUSTIC SEAN PARRY – SACRED KNOT THE OTOLITH HELEN MONEY LYKOTONON GHOSTS OF GLACIERS We are thrilled and deeply […]

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Album Review: Thy Catafalque – Vadak

Reliability is a rare commodity these days, be it in personal relationships, professional commitments, or certainly in the arts. To find one of those bands – you know, the ones that worm under your skin and into your soul, to the point that you view each new release with hope instead of trepidation – is a true gift, indeed. Recorded in no less than 12 countries – aided by guest musicians and, indirectly, by the current isolation we all feel to some degree – ‘Szarvas’ ushers into Vadak with ULTRAVOX-worthy synthscapes, bolstered by bristling guitars that could as easily be […]

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DEATHCAVE: Seattle Doom/Sludge Trio Announces December Tour With Heiress And More

Seattle-based doom/sludge trio DEATHCAVE will return to the stage this Winter for a two-week run of live dates beginning December 2nd in Seattle, Washington and concluding December 15th in Sacramento, California. Support will be provided by labelmates Heiress as well as Worship, Duhkha and Ugly on select shows. See all confirmed dates below. DEATHCAVE: 12/02/2021 Bar House – Seattle, WA w/ Heiress 12/03/2021 Kenton Club – Portland, OR w/ Heiress 12/04/2021 Elbo Room Jack London – Oakland, CA w/ Heiress, Worship 12/05/2021 The Blue Lagoon – Santa Cruz, CA w/ Heiress, Worship 12/06/2021 Programme Skate Shop – Fullerton, CA w/ […]

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Album Review: Enforced – Kill Grid

Here it is…100% thrash metal PERFECTION! I was hoping that ENFORCED would rise to the challenge…and they have! These Virginia hellhounds have made a strong argument with Kill Grid that they are the rightful heirs of SLAYER. This album is full of the same balls-out intensity that made Hell Awaits and Reign In Blood classics. You doubt me? Slip this sucker in, hit play, and prepare to be battered and bruised by a whirlwind of steel! ‘The Doctrine’ starts with a medium crunchy build before exploding into pure holocaust of speed and intensity. Did ENFORCED blow their wad early? Along […]

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Salem sludge rockers MOTHER IRON HORSE debut new video, ‘The Devil’s Work’, via Invisible Oranges; new album out November 5th on Ripple Music

Salem, Massachusetts sludge rock cultists MOTHER IRON HORSE share all details about their sophomore album, Under The Blood Moon, to be released November 5th on Ripple Music as part of Blasko’s curated series. Embrace the swaggering frenzy of new video ‘The Devil’s Work’ now! With a sound steeped in occult debauchery and esoteric rituals, MOTHER IRON HORSE stands out from the stoner rock pack by adding some sleazy grit and tongue-in-cheek blasphemy into the mix and adding a corrosive sludge punk twist that makes it all sound incredibly rousing and addictive. While their 2019 debut, The Lesser Key, was thought-out […]

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Album Review: TRNA – Istok

I’ll give advance notice, I am wary of labels like “core” and “shoegaze”. I see those words in a bands description and suddenly I get the image of pathetic fringe-cringe wimps crying in their My Chemical Romance shirts trying to pump their emotions into the pedals like it will somehow override the fact that they suck. But I was giving TRNA a chance, and sweet feck, I am glad I did! With that out of the way, where do I begin. Well…the first track sucked me in harder than the mosquitos have this year. I was torn into another realm, […]

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Scattered Hamlet To Release New Album, Stereo Overthrow In November

SCATTERED HAMLET are pleased to announce that they will release their album Stereo Overthrow on November 12 2021. The album is the follow up to their 2016 full-length, Swamp Rebel Machine, which landed at number 10 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart. Front man Adam Joad commented “Stereo Overthrow is basically a middle finger in the air to the entire last year, the music industry trying to mold us into a specific format, and basically anything trying to hold you back…” SCATTERED HAMLET was formed in 2010 by lead vocalist Adam Joad, and has relentlessly toured all over the states with […]

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Album Review: Hooded Menace – The Tritonus Bell

Well, Lasse Pyykko and his band of merry noose-knotters are at it again. Wisely removing themselves from the utter dreck that was 2020, HOODED MENACE return to ring The Tritonus Bell, and, in turn, our ears…we hope. For the first time since 2008 debut, Fulfill The Curse, the time between full-lengths hasn’t been stop-gapped by at least one EP or split, leading one to believe that ol’ HM really did pour everything it had into the cauldron, churned it up with a femur, added one eye of defrocked priest, one hymen of promiscuous nun, the blood of a somewhat perturbed […]

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CONNOISSEUR: Oakland Beatdown Stoners Cough Up ‘Your Ass Is Grass’ Official Video; Split LP With TRAPPIST Out Now On Tankcrimes

Oakland’s most baked moshlords CONNOISSEUR have exhaled an official video for ‘Your Ass Is Grass’. The track is found on the band’s Cross Faded split LP with Los Angeles’ TRAPPIST, a lethal convergence of fastcore, sludge, powerviolence, and underground hardcore punk, out now on Tankcrimes. Self-described as “full blown marijuana addicts from Oakland, California playing really fast and very sludgy at times”, and likening themselves to Earth Crisis if they “smoked weed and listened to Spazz”, the bongclobbering members of CONNOISSEUR exhale raging upbeat/d-beat surges packed with resin-coated sludgedowns and brutal cheeba-charged vocal exhalations that consume the listener in a […]

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