southern lord – Sleeping Village

All Pigs Must Die – Blood Wet Teeth

Sun, 08 Apr 2018 16:00:05 +0000

This band has never really done it for me. I never hated them, I just couldn’t make myself care. Then Hostage Animal came out last year.

Good god.

This thing destroys. They do thrash/crossover, sludge, hardcore, metal and nail it all. It makes me want to go back and take a look at those other albums I didn’t really care about.

Baptists – Vistas

Sat, 11 Jun 2016 04:00:00 +0000

YES

Black Breath – Feast of the Damned

Fri, 10 Jun 2016 04:00:00 +0000

This is what head banging was invented for.

I didn’t appreciate how good these guys are when I saw then open for Converge & Coalesce a bunch of year ago and I regret it.

Photo stolen from SeptikPhoto.

Torch Runner – Attrition

Thu, 09 Jun 2016 04:00:00 +0000

Where has this band been and why didn’t someone tell me about this.

Sludgey crust thrash with some Coalesce/Botch touches.

Boris – Huge

Sat, 16 Aug 2014 04:00:00 +0000

God this band use to be good.

Burning Love – Pig City I

The Village — Fri, 27 Sep 2013 21:47:23 +0000

I wasn’t as into the album this song is from (Rotten Thing To Say) when it came out as I was the band’s previous releases. It just didn’t sound the same, so I forgot about. Listening to it again, I think what probably turned me off was that the production (by Kurt Ballou) didn’t sound like shit.

Listening to the two albums back to back, Songs For Burning Lovers sounds like it was recorded on a boombox. Its still a great album, there is no question about that, but the production can’t touch Rotten Thing To Say.

Go buy things and see them live every chance you get, you will not be disappointed.

Baptists – Bullets

The Village — Sat, 06 Jul 2013 20:49:00 +0000

This is harder and more brutal than anything you’ve listened to in weeks.

Go buy it.