Dragged Into Sunlight – American tour blog 2016
I tagged along with England’s Dragged Into Sunlight for their first journey across America in 2012. I did so again for their second American…
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SUNN O))) – KANNON
Sunn O))) isn’t for everyone, certainly not for those with bowel control issues if they were to attend one of the band’s notorious ground…
Wrong – self-titled
This Miami noise-rock outfit features former members of Torche and Kylesa, but musically, Wrong are more like Unsane or the Melvins’ old-school slowcore, with just…
Snow Burial – Victory in Ruin
How fitting was it that the promo for a band called Snow Burial hit my inbox just as the Northeast was getting snowed under?…
Whore Paint – Ultra Sound
I can’t quite recall how the second album from this Rhode Island post-feminist, post-rock trio, Whore Paint, came to my attention, but colour me…
Not Of in Toronto, ON – April 18, 2015
Not Of album release show @ The Magpie Taproom, Toronto, ON – April 18, 2015 It’s only in this day and age of digital…
Round Eye – s/t
Wow. A band grabbing listeners and shaking them by the head just to see the confused look on their faces isn’t a particularly common…
Relapse Records: 25 Years of Contamination
Now available from Relapse Records: “Celebrate 25 years of independent metal with over 180 tracks from our catalog! From death and doom to grind and…
Full of Hell – Full of Hell & Merzbow
Over the past four years we have seen Full of Hell release many full lengths and eps but now, with the edition of Masami Akita…
The Body / Sandworm split
I still have fond memories of the one and only time I’ve seen The Body live. The local promoter had a hard time finding…