Tag: Cripple Bastards
Best Of 2018 – Chris Sessions: Are You Slimy Enough For 2018?
ON THE YEAR Last year at this time I was angry. Constant anger starts to numb the spirit. You feel tired rather than restless. So you stop paying attention, focus back in on the minute …
Best Of 2018 – Andrew Edmunds: Clever Title?! I Barely KNOW Her Title!
2018 was a very strange year for me. I started the year with an intracranial hemorrhage (I’m fully recovered now, thanks) and ended the year with a marriage (she may never fully recover, thanks). Through …
Best Of 2018 – Last Rites Combined Staff Top 25
You’re here! Welcome! So glad you could make it. So, how was the flight? Wait, what? You walked here? All the way from January 1st? You walked here all the way from January 1st. Wow. …
Cripple Bastards – La Fine Cresca Da Dentro Review
These Italian grinders are celebrating their 30th anniversary with this one, their seventh full-length album, but don’t think for a second that they’ve mellowed in their older age. Their last full-length, 2014’s Nero in metastasi, …
Dave Pirtle’s Best of 2014 – This Blitz Goes to 21
I didn’t mean to do a blitz this year. I really didn’t. In case you missed the story last year, that troublesome “personal life” thing prevented me from keeping up with all the great stuff …
Cripple Bastards – Nero In Metastasi Review
I’ve read a few reviews in the last several years – and I’ve written one of them – stating that Italy’s Cripple Bastards has quietly been creeping up to become one of grindcore’s leading lights. …
Cripple Bastards – Senza Impronte Review
The Italian punks in Cripple Bastards have been grinding along since the late 1980s, and though they haven’t always been among the first bands that come to mind when the sub-genre’s biggest acts are listed, …
Cripple Bastards – Blackmails And Assholism (DVD) Review
Crusty Italian grinders Cripple Bastards celebrate their twentieth anniversary with this exhaustive double-DVD documentary plus their full set at the 2003 Obscene Extreme Festival in the Czech Republic. DVD sets are almost always “for fans only” …