Posted by Chip McCabe on April 3, 2015
Connecticut and Norway are a pretty long ways off from each other. While the latter has a reputation as a birthing room for some of metal’s most influential babies, the former…well…not so much. However, the reality is that Connecticut (and really all of New England), while not on par just yet with Norway, has still […]
Posted by Chip McCabe on February 27, 2015
Under the Earth’s crust exists a swirling vortex of white hot magma which constantly heaves and churns and occasionally wreaks the most combustible and vitriolic natural havoc known to man. Under that is a dual layer of solid, blistering metal. What heaves and agitates beneath our feet on a daily basis is a visual and […]
Posted by Chip McCabe on January 23, 2015
Somewhere between the early 1990’s and today the realm of Black Metal took so many left turns that at times it’s almost hard to distinguish who we should and shouldn’t call by that name. One thing has remained a constant though, and that’s the feeling you get when you listen to an album that pulls […]
Posted by Chip McCabe on November 11, 2014
The definition of the word obliterate is to wipe something out completely, to utterly destroy whatever the intended target might be. In the case of Los Angeles based Obliterations this is exactly their intent with every track on their newest full-length album, Poison Everything. Somewhere in the extreme music timeline the worlds of punk and […]
Posted by Chip McCabe on October 3, 2014
In the darkness, barreling towards the center of the Earth there is a labyrinth of tunnels snaking their way all over the globe. They are filled with the blood of the innocent, of children asked to do the work of men, of men asked to do the work no one should have ever been asked […]
Posted by Chip McCabe on September 19, 2014
While previewing this album at my day job, a co-worker asked, “Is that music or static coming out of your speakers?” Short answer: Yes. To say that North Carolina’s grind-infused, crusty three-piece, Torch Runner, are abrasive, especially to the untrained ear, is a vast and monumental understatement. After their new label, Southern Lord, reissued their […]
Posted by Chip McCabe on July 18, 2014
Torment and despair come in so many forms it’s sickening. The injustices wrought upon 99% of us are varied. Most of us are so subtly affected it’s enough to become numb to the effects. For others it’s a thousand pound anchor slowly sinking us in a sea of misery. For some the bottom never comes, […]
