All posts by Dan Obstkrieg

Happily committed to the foolish pursuit of words about sounds. Not actually a dinosaur.

Found Sounds And Frig You Friday, Vol. 5

Fuck me, there is a LOT of music out in the world. You ever think about how words are really weird? Right now, for example, you are reading Volume Five of this odyssey of idiocy,

Verminous Serpent – The Malign Covenant Review

Friends, I don’t know about you, but sometimes I lose my patience with black/death metal. Too many bands focus their energy on kicking up an intimidating, claustrophobic racket, but they forget to start with riffs

Gorod – The Orb Review

Let’s begin with a question that might seem a little academic: Do you need your death metal to make sense? Of course, to the complete outsider, nothing about death metal makes any sense at all,

Found Sounds And Frig You Friday, Vol. 4

Fuck me, there is a LOT of music out in the world. You ever tape songs off the radio? (Yes, at least two of the words in that sentence are enough to paint me as

Found Sounds And Frig You Friday, Vol. 3

Fuck me, there is a LOT of music out in the world. Here at Hi, Hello, How Are You and We’re Sorry We Said ‘Fuck You’ So Much Fridays, we are pleased to report that

No Spill Blood – Eye Of Night Review

Perhaps you would agree that there are many ways for a band to be good. (If you do not agree, that is okay. But why start off on such a disagreeable footing?) There are two

Found Sounds And Frig You Friday, Vol. 2

Fuck me, there is a LOT of music out in the world. Welcome to volume two of a Found Sounds and Frustrated Expectations Fuck You Friday. The record keeps spinning, the globe keeps turning, the

Fvnerals – Let The Earth Be Silent Review

The German duo Fvnerals, so serious about their downcast craft that they opted for a ‘v’ to avoid even suggesting the word “fun,” poses a challenge to the listener: how dark is too dark? How