Category: Features
Frig You Friday Presents: Frig You Fuzz – The Best Psych, Stoner, Prog, And Heavy Rock Of The Year (So Far)
As is tradition, every Fuck You Friday begins with: “Fuck me, there is a LOT of music out in the world.” But as the keenest and kleverest of you eagle-eyed shit-shellackers out there have surely …
Diamonds & Rust: 35 Years Of Rigor Mortis
[Cover artwork by Cort Johnson] We’re always told that we shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, and of course, we still do. But the good news here is that this first Rigor Mortis album …
Staff Infections – July 2023
It’s a Sunday somewhere between the beginning and the middle of the month, depending on how much I have my act together, and that means its time for Staff Infections, everyone’s favorite feature with little-to-no …
We Have The Power Presents: The Top 100 Power Metal Albums Of All Time, Part 2
Adventurers! What-ho and forsooth, it is time once again to kick The Most Important List Ever Compiled By A Human Being back into life! [Falls headfirst into a roiling nest of deadly Alaskan marmots] Yes, …
Audio/Visual Premiere: 夢遊病者 – “Silesian Fur Coat”
The music of the Japanese/Russian/American collective known as 夢遊病者 (Sleepwalker) have been using their music to search out the nexus between cognitive memory and the subconscious since their debut demo (統合失調症の飢餓) and subsequent first studio …
WAR Masters – A Completely Serious Analysis Of Metal And Baseball
Happy All Star Break, folks. Or, if you aren’t a baseball fan, enjoy the least exciting week in all of sports, when very little is going on except ESPN’s incessant coverage of the same 10 …
In Crust We Trust: Vol 28
Kia ora, comrades. Welcome to In Crust We Trust. This regular round-up of noisy releases focuses on the harshest strains of punk, hardcore and metalpunk. Tune in for crust, d-beat, stenchcore, raw punk, noisecore, and …
We Have The Power Presents: The Top 100 Power Metal Albums Of All Time, Part 1
Heroes! Adventurers! Bards, smiths, strumpets, tapsters, fools and ghouls! As the great Aragorn once famously declared in the back corner of a dimly lit halfling honky-tonk, “Let’s get into some mother-humpin’ trouble…” “YES!” Replied every …