Posted on March 4, 2013 |
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Last time there was this much hype about a grindcore album it was something along the lines of “Bum Bruner” or something. We all know how that turned out! It was utter shite. So being a cynic as you all should know by now, I...
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Posted on September 19, 2012 |
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Southern Lord just keeps rolling. This time they offer the fourth album by The Secret, “Agnus Dei”. No one can ever accuse Southern Lord of coloring inside the lines, in fact it seems at times they go out of their way to blacken everything outside...
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Posted on September 4, 2012 |
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This July, Southern Lord Records gave us back a gem that had been off the shelves for a while. High on Fire releases their first full length album “The Art of Self Defense” in 2000 on Man’s Ruin Records. On a label where no contracts...
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Posted on August 24, 2012 |
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It’s always refreshing when an established label takes a punt on some young up-and-comers, especially when they fall outside the usual parameters defined by the rest of the roster. However, the Greg Anderson-owned Southern Lord deals only in extremity, which is why they’ve just put...
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Posted on July 21, 2012 |
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Three years since their last official US performances, and over two years since their live collaboration with Boris in Brooklyn, Sunn 0))) have confirmed several new performances this Summer, including a tour of the East Coast. Sunn 0))) will infiltrate venues down the East Coast...
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Posted on June 24, 2012 |
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The crushing Southern Lord label tour featuring ENABLER, BURNING LOVE, MARTYRDÖD and BLACK BREATH kicked off in Seattle, with special guest headliners for the evening, POISON IDEA! In celebration the kickoff of this incredible tour, today Cvlt Nation is hosting a crushing Southern Lord label...
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Posted on June 14, 2012 |
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ThisIsNotAScene‘s Dewie was rather impressed by the latest offering, “Paranoia,” from Swedish crust punk stalwarts Martyrdöd, so much so he put a few questions to the guitarist Micke Kjellman. They talked about the album, the focus of the lyrics, then band’s sound, their new label...
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Posted on June 5, 2012 |
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Sleep’s “Dopesmoker” is something of a seminal album. Yes that term gets bandied about like nobody’s business, but hearing “Dopesmoker” for the very first time is akin to a terrifically exhausting journey across some a great expanse of the earth. On the receiving end of quite the...
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Posted on June 4, 2012 |
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Earthride delivered their 3rd album “Something Wicked” in 2010. The band hails from doom metal capital of the world Maryland. “Something Wicked” is truly a wicked piece of work that just drips with evilness. The album is brimming with distorted bass and guitar. It’s all...
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Posted on May 29, 2012 |
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Swedish crust punk stalwarts Martyrdöd return with their fourth album, recorded at the infamous Studio Fredman (favoured by At The Gates, Opeth and Amon Amarth) and with a production that is a little fatter and cleaner than previous outings. Fortunately the slightly beefier sound does...
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Posted on April 12, 2012 |
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Sweden’s Wolfbrigade have been kicking around since 1995, starting out under the name Wolfpack and changing their name around the turn of the century before splitting in 2004. The band returned to action in 2007, releasing two albums in quick succession. Their first album in...
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Posted on April 11, 2012 |
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What a lot of people don’t usually get is that there is a difference between being heavy and being extreme. For example, Black Sabbath are heavy but aren’t really extreme by today’s standards. But a band like, say, Megadeth are more extreme in style but...
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Posted on April 7, 2012 |
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It has been a while since I have heard any activity from our post rock chums Pelican. Fortunately, after being in the wilderness for 3 years they have decided to grace us with their presence once more – this time in the form of the...
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Posted on February 28, 2012 |
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Black Breath has announced a full set of European tour dates in support of “Sentenced To Life,” with main support on the tour coming from Tormented, Victims and Christian Mistress: 29th March – Rotterdam, Baroeg w/ Tormented, Victims 30th March – Antwerp, Trix w/ Tormented,...
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Posted on February 12, 2012 |
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Seattle death brigade Black Breath are preparing to unleash their new LP, “Sentenced To Life,” which is set to drop on March 27th via Southern Lord. With 10 tracks in under 33 minutes, “Sentenced To Life” contains the most demoralizing yet energizing d-beat injected death metal...
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Posted on February 5, 2012 |
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“Live For Nothing” is a compilation of two radio appearances from the nineties (one from KZSU in 1996 and the other from KFJC in 1999) by the recently reformed Noothgrush, a legendary Bay Area doom/sludge band which has been given a full release (a rarity...
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Posted on January 24, 2012 |
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“Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II”, recorded in the same two week session in 2011 as the first instalment, sees Seattle’s Earth delving further into the realms of folklore, and music that has at its essence the acid folk generation. The album itself opens...
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Posted on January 12, 2012 |
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Thunderous post-instrumental outfit Pelican have announced the long awaited follow-up to their sprawling 2009 full length “What We All Come To Need,” a new four song EP “Ataraxia/Taraxis” to be released on Southern Lord on April 9. With members now residing in separate cities, the...
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Posted on January 7, 2012 |
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Seattle’s barbaric wrecking crew Black Breath have completed their second LP and are preparing to fire it point blank into the public’s face this March. The forthcoming new platter, dubbed “Sentenced to Life,” is the highly-anticipated follow-up to the band’s raging 2010 debut album, “Heavy Breathing,”...
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Posted on December 17, 2011 |
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It has been ten years since Bay Area noise-mongers Black Cobra first began ripping faces off with their take on punk infused sludge/doom metal. The duo, consisting of Rafael Martinez and Jason Landrian, enlisted the help of Converge‘s Kurt Ballou and his God City Studios...
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