Caveman Cult — Rituals of Savagery
Florida has a penchant for producing raw and primitive metal, which is just the case with Caveman Cult who play a mix…
black metal
Mastery — VALIS
VALIS. The vast, active living-intelligence system which Phillip K Dick claimed telepathically downloaded a massive store of occult information directly into his…
Pure Impact, April 2015: Time for Spring Cleaning
Spring is here, so Damaged City Fest and New York’s Alright are just around the corner, featuring spatterings of Boston punk and hardcore…
Cloak — Succumb
Cloak are a very new four-piece wrecking crew out of San Francisco who play a raging combination of black metal and old-school…
Venom — From the Very Depths
Fourteen albums into their career, UK metal legends VENOM are clearly no longer releasing music as revelatory or influential as the records they…
HUMAN BODIES – NO LIFE
On No Life, demoniac local trio HUMAN BODIES follow up on their initial demo with a six song, twelve minute gut punch…
DEAN BLUNT – BLACK METAL
Dean Blunt’s version of Black Metal is not quite what you’d expect. The UK producer’s follow-up to 2013’s dense, sometimes inscrutable breakup…
ON STAGE: BURNT SKULL
Outta sight second installment in CASEY HERZ’s ON STAGE series of close ups of performers maniacally doing their thing @ HASSLE FEST…
RASPBERRY BULBS – PRIVACY
On Privacy, NYC five-piece RASPBERRY BULBS (originally started as a solo black metal project by Marco Del Rio of BONE AWL) continue…
XARKRINUR – DARK RITUALS
And now for something completely different. What do you think of when you think of Bangladesh? Islam? Tigers? Textile factory fires? Nothing…
GRUE – RAKE EP
Local duo GRUE have managed to put together something that is quite rare in underground black metal: self-released recordings with decent, relatively…
HARASSOR — INTO UNKNOWN DEPTHS
Those familiar with Dais Records know them for their gorgeously packaged experimental, noise and electronic releases. But while the packaging for Harassor’s…
