Category: Features
5Q5A – Exordium Mors
originally written by Craig Hayes The roll call of New Zealand metal bands finding fans offshore is ever growing. Bands like Vassafor, Ulcerate, Diocletian and Witchrist have led the charge, and in recent years, groups …
The Best Of What You’ve Missed In The First Half Of 2014 – Part 5
It’s the last day of our Best of What You’ve Missed series: we’ve collected twenty-five albums that haven’t created much of a stir yet this year that we think you should hear before diving into …
Your Independence Day Mixtape – Because AMERICA
Originally written by Jordan Campbell Happy Independence Day, Planet Earth. Today, the fifty United States of America (and probably Guam and Puerto Rico or whatever) will celebrate our liberation from taxation without representation (hmm…) by …
A Devil’s Dozen – Darkthrone
Darkthrone, to black metal metal fans, needs no introduction. For the rest of you, here’s the quick rundown: Formed in the late eighties, Darkthrone began as a death metal band releasing several demos and the …
The Best Of What You’ve Missed In The First Half Of 2014 – Part 4
We’re winding down our week of albums that you might have missed so far, but we’ve still got some great music for you. Today’s five range from the extremely traditional to the outrageously avant-garde, so …
Iron Bonehead Roundup – Four Doses Of Pulsing Corruption
Y’all are down with Iron Bonehead by now, yes? No other label has been churning out the underground filth with as vicious a streak lately as these Handwerksmeisters of degradation. They’ve got a vigorous thumb …
The Best Of What You’ve Missed In The First Half Of 2014 – Part 3
We’re back with more picks from the first half of the year that we don’t want to see disappear into obscurity in the back half of the year. The Last Rites crew had picked out …