Sofy Major – Total Dump
a fast-paced, boisterous, rip-roaring, unrestrained piece of fuzzbox art
Top Ten-ish of 2018 by JGilbert
a year full of boundary pushing, genre blending, and crazy music
Sacral Rage – Beyond Celestial Echoes
this is withering-fire metal amplified 150 percent on the technicality and innovation scales.
INTERVIEW with MARTIN LOPEZ of SOEN
growing as musicians, touring internationally, and their new album, Lotus,
Cloudburst – Cloudburst
builds to a wall of sound crescendo reminiscent of early emocore for just a moment before the chaos resumes.
Deadbird – III: The Forest Within the Tree
traditional elements of classic stoner and doom metal, sprinkled in some sludge and noise elements, and twisted them into a well-integrated form.
Unattended Death – SPLIT w/ Ridiculous Terror
three tracks of throwback goregrind with riffage that brings up memories of early Cannibal Corpse, delivered in bite sized chunks I can eat up again and again.
Forcefield – Lord of the Rings Modulator
“Lord of the Rings Modulator” is not so much ‘to listen to an album’ as it is ‘to have an experience’
Night Vapor – 1000 Miles of Mud
clashing notes, sporadic beats, quavering distortion, and chain-smoking vocals
Skraeckoedlan – Äppelträdet
a sludgy, distorted bass tone that is as viscous as the deadly muck of a WWI Flanders battlefield.