SADIST/L.O.T.I.O.N. – Split USB Earring
There is cyberpunk and then there is CYBER PUNK. This “record review” is not so much a record review as such, more…
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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…
SLEAFORD MODS — DIVIDE AND EXIT
Last year, writer and illustrator Molly Crabapple wrote a piece for Vice which made several points that I’ve been unable to get…
GODFLESH – A WORLD LIT ONLY BY FIRE
Industrial metal pioneers GODFLESH are back with their seventh studio album, A World Lit By Fire. The album (which guitarist, singer and…
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…
CULT OF YOUTH – FINAL DAYS
On their newest album, Brooklyn dark punk/folk tour de force CULT OF YOUTH have produced their finest work to date. Headphones are…
CUT HANDS – FESTIVAL OF THE DEAD
Former WHITEHOUSE noise terrorist William Bennett has never shied away from controversy, as anyone familiar with that duo is fully aware. While…
FLYING LOTUS – YOU’RE DEAD!
On his fifth full-length album, FLYING LOTUS has elected to take the listener on a journey through the various Bardos of the…
RAKTA – RAKTA
I was lucky enough to be one of about a hundred punx packed tight into a sweaty Jamaica Plain basement a few…
BUMMED – DEMO
Like the best of the shoegaze genre, the production on BUMMED’s five-song demo allows for the reverb to fill in all the…
SLUTEVER / GIRLPOOL – SPLIT TAPE
The ladies behind fuzz-punk acts Slutever and Girlpool have put out an excellent split tape. Though the cassettes were only physically available…
PHARMAKON – BESTIAL BURDEN
They say you can never judge a book by its cover, but in the case of the disturbing, Hermann Nitsch-inspired artwork for…
