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It’s a magical corner of the musical world where a band can combine an infectious nature with extreme oddness, and it’s in that corner that Idaho’s Seven Chains makes their home. Make no mistake about it, third album Swollen, In …
[Cover art by Claudio Elias Scialabba] Italy’s Into Darkness has been a band for approximately 15 years but is just now releasing its first full length album, Route to the Other Side, but all that time has been greatly beneficial …
[Cover art by David Preissel] The sounds of Neurosis’ “Locust Star” emanate from a desktop speaker wired to an iPod Nano via ⅛-inch cable “Hey maaaan … is that Ponderous Post Metal?” “Yeah maaan …” “Well turn it up MAAAN!!” …
[Artwork by Vicky “Liddo” Morales] In a soak-your-underwear sweaty, tetanus-to-the-touch warehouse in the middle of Skid Row, Raw Addict played its first show. Weeks earlier, drummer Isaac made the irresistible sales pitch, stating that the multinational band connecting grind lifers …
If you’re one of those poor, unfortunate souls who can’t get into grindcore because “it’s just nonstop blasting and grunts” and “the songs fly by so fast it all blurs together,” then… well, Sulfuric Cautery …
[Cover art by Jon Zig] Despite forming in 2013, this NYC-by-way-of-global members quartet didn’t fire off their debut, Defiled In Oblivion, until 2022. Rather than continue to roll with a slow build, they’ve struck while …
Howdy, friends. I’m back. Apologies for the absence of Staff Infections these past few months. The rise of fascism has me in a bit of a crisis of giving a shit, and Ozzy Osbourne’s death …
Melbourne’s Deliquesce debuted with monstrous intent on 2023’s Cursed with Malevolence, an album so stuffed with brutal/technical death goodness that you’d have thought they were flies on the wall for the Pierced from Within sessions. …
Being actively online can be a terrifically strange thing to experience if you happen to be old enough to remember… the Before Times. This becomes imminently clear when misfortune hits because, if you’re like me—and …
It’s the middle of the year, so we’re taking a few days to round up some of our favorites we failed to cover in the past six months. As you can read above, this is …
It’s the middle of the year, so we’re taking a few days to round up some of our favorites we failed to cover in the past six months. As you can read above, this is …
Happy summer, folks! It’s become tradition here around LR HQ to spend part of July catching up with the things we’ve missed throughout the year, or at least the things we really dig that we …
