All too many times, bands come erupting from the gates with their debut full-length records at full, hell-spawned power, the proverbial blood, sweat and tears gushing from every raging pore…and the fans love every single song, every single note. With that blistering introduction, those bands seem to reach their peak before they’ve even really started,
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Trap Them – Darker Handcraft
Picture this: total immersion in violent, gut-wrenching sound. What graces the ears in the instance of cruel madness? A warp-speed, head-on truck collision on the German autobahn…or the steel and concrete of an office building crashing down to ruins upon the fragile bodies of those unfortunate enough to be inside…or the eruption of a lunatic’s
Anhedonist – The Drear
While my personal favorite city (that I’ve been to, anyway) in the world, Seattle, Washington has definitely earned its stripes within the more mainstream portions of the population when it comes to what could be deemed as “noteworthy” or “powerful”, or even “devastating” for that matter, very rarely has the spotlight been directed at the
Earth – A Bureaucratic Desire For Extra-Capsular Extraction
When guitarist Dylan Carlson formed Earth in Olympia, Washington in the midst of Seattle’s exploding grunge scene in 1989, the band would go on to be the pioneers of a sound known to many as drone doom. Derivative of more traditional doom metal and taking their name from Black Sabbath‘s original moniker, Earth delivers an