Cryptopsy have been around for a while and despite some fairly large lineup changes from time to time they have managed to stay afloat and release albums relatively consistently. Whether or not the musical quality of these albums has been consistent is another matter entirely and opinions vary greatly from person to person. This time Cryptopsy has released a quality record after the backlash from “The unspoken king”, where the band tried their hand at death core. Continue reading
Metal Dan Vs. “Reign Supreme” by Dying Fetus
Dying Fetus is one of the first Death Metal groups that I ever heard of besides Cannibal Corpse of
course. Despite this fact it was only within the last 18 months that I actually listened to them. Starting from “Killing on Adrenaline” I went through their discography and found a uneven mix of chugging break downs, misplaced technical death metal wankery, but no clear song writing prowess. Enter “Reign Supreme” an album that shows both song writing maturity and wider audience accessibility. Continue reading
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John Vs. “The Seer” by Swans
Before we begin, I’d like to apologize for downloading the leak of the record. Gira wont read this, but I just want it public that, yes, I’ve had it for like a month, and that was a month before the general public had it, when I wasn’t supposed to have it. To make up for it, I bought it twice, and I am now going to spend my power praising it.
I’m also going to take a moment to indulge in detailing the way I listened to this record. You don’t have to listen to it this way for it to be good, but I found it to be a positive experience overall.
I’ll put a big bold “actually talking about the record” thing afterwords if you want to ignore this. Continue reading
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FOWR ALBUM CLUB RESULTS
Hey!
So we ran this album club thing, and at the end of it, I solicited ballots from the people in the club. We ended up getting essentially half as many ballots as there were participants, and honestly for any survey, that’s a pretty good percentage of returned surveys. Let’s run down the results! Click the page thing down there!
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OH GOD OH NO OH #3
White like salt, stings the cuts like salt, tans the hide like salt, harmful like salt, but at least flavorful like salt. Near the end anyways. What I’m saying here is, this is our saltiest episode yet.
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Podcast? #14: Squeak Away
After our three month long tribal retreat, we’re back with keen insight on Death Grips, Mesita, Killer Mike, El-P, Grass Widow, Dope Body, Liars, John Maus, Mount Eerie, and more! Also, Matt didn’t survive our three month long tribal retreat, but we don’t want to get the cops involved, so keep it on the DL*. In the meantime, DL** this PC***!
*Down Low
**Down Load
***Pod Cast
****Intro sample is from “Bubblebop Shot” by Boredoms
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John Vs. “Open Your Heart” by The Men
The last time I had such a childish, underdeveloped first response to a record was when I bought Shine A Light by the Constantines. I’d bought it because I really enjoyed the song “Nighttime/Anytime (It’s Alright),” and had expected it to be a record full of songs like that, and was actually disgusted when only one song was kind of like it (“Tank Commander”).
I waited two or three years, until later into my time in high school, to put it on again. Now I vehemently defend The Constantines as being the finest rock band of 2000-2005, refer to four of those five releases as wholly perfect, intend to get “Modern Sinner Nervous Man” tattooed on my right wrist, and will probably have “Blind Luck” play during my funeral. Continue reading
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Fermata over Whole Rest 