Tag: Noise
Unsane – Sterilize Review
It can be said that the casual Unsane fan needs no more than three Unsane albums. Those would be, without question, Scattered, Smothered & Covered, Total Destruction and Occupational Hazard. The first shows the band …
Squalus – “Flesh, Bone, And Rubber” Premiere and The Great Fish… Review
There’s a reason we don’t have an ape, tiger, snake or buzzard week: despite a deep admiration for a large portion of Earth’s animals that are lucky enough to avoid our grocery stores, the greater …
Couch Slut – Contempt Review
Originally written by Chris Redar In 2014, Brooklyn’s Couch Slut dropped one of the most harrowing listening experiences of the year in My Life As A Woman, a bleak examination of emotional depravity set to …
Succumb – Succumb Review
Many moons ago, a friend of mine convinced me to give a strange blend of juice from an eclectic little grocery store in a weird little neighborhood near my work a month-long try for supposed …
The Mass – Ghost Fleet Review
Those unfamiliar with how a gig like this typically works might benefit from discovering that most of us make it to around the first of December before pulling the plug on basically everything in order …
Yautja – Songs of Lament Review
Yautja’s Songs of Descent was one of 2014’s most pleasant surprises, a blistering combination of grind, sludge, death metal, hardcore, and even noise that never felt as if it was overreaching to any one of …
Kowloon Walled City – Grievances Review
Back in 1998, I found myself in a hoity-toity bar in Park City, Utah on a night when a band called Whiskeytown was due to play a show in support of an album called Strangers …
KEN Mode – Success
If you’re going with that atrocious mustard-and-pastels eyesore of an album cover, you damn well better back it up with some kick-ass sounds… Recorded with notorious noise-rock curmudgeon Steve Albini, Success is the sixth full-length …