2015 Best Of
2015! Another great year for teh metalz. And a great year for weirdo electronica. I wrote some words about this but why don't you just dig into this playlist: VAGUELY BLACK-METAL-INFLUENCED METAL OF
A collection of 41 posts
Noise > Metal.
Lately I've been having this feeling, that as I continue on my journey to discover the heaviest metal in existence, that I've been looking in the wrong place. Blastbeats? Riffs? Melodies? It's all
Is This Even Metal? – Menace Ruine
Let's get weird. MENACE RUINE is an artist I caught last year when they opened for Botanist. Two folks playing weird synths, this French woman howling about somethingorother. I didn't particularly enjoy their
Hate-Listening to BABYMETAL
Hate-listening is a thing I do where I challenge myself to listen with an open mind to bands I know I’ll despise. Does BABYMETAL need an introduction? Probably. What you already should
The Flesh Prevails.
FALLUJAH, currently melting my face. Really digging this album "The Flesh Prevails" from FALLUJAH. Don't be an idiot like me and ignore these guys for having a dumb name. They're not
Glass Cloud, Letlive & Architects @ El Corazon.
First of all, I HATE El Corazon. 3 reasons: As far as a hardcore/metal venue goes, this place is one of the shittiest I've been to in terms of sound quality &
Translated: Meshuggah – Chewing Dead Bodies
(“Translated” is a series where I translate Death Metal English into plaintext for noobs.) Pay the ogre with bad vision so that he'll leave us alone. Seriously, he'll beat us. Fear of death
Translated: Gojira – Where Dragons Dwell
(“Translated” is a series where I translate Death Metal English into plaintext for noobs.) I have something inside me, that drives me to action. When I’m not pursuing it, I get restless.
Mumford & Shits
[The following is an email that I actually wrote to a woman, after our first date, after she accused me of hating Mumford and Sons for no reason. The real reason I hated