If you ask me, split releases are a goddamned treasure. They’re a formidable commodity. They are something that should surely get Max far in a place like Bartertown. What I’m getting at here is that there’s not only the obvious benefit of acquiring new music by a band that you are already well aware and
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The Communion – A Desired Level of Unease
One of Prison Tatt Records very latest releases and a very unique addition to my collection, this LP lives up to its titles description as The Communion blend early true 90’s sludge Eyehategod/Acid Bath/Seven Foot Spleen/Noothgrush with the modern twist of Seven Sisters of Sleep and Integrity stirring up a stampede of shrieking anti-social/anti-PC lyrics
High on Fire – De Vermis Mysteriis
Lord Mantis – Pervertor
“No tears, please. It’s a waste of good suffering.” – Pinhead, Hellraiser Ladies and gentlemen, I ask you…have you ever seen the face of a true nightmare? Ever stared, wide-eyed and scared senseless at something so goddamn, unforgivingly gruesome that its cold, pale fingers dug their way deep into your quivering brain forever? Ever been
Chinaski – Cruelty
“It’s like killing roaches. You have to kill ‘em all. Otherwise…what’s the use?” – Charles Bronson as Paul Kersey, Deathwish 3 You have to hand it to those among us that have no qualms whatsoever about pulling all the stops and grinning at the thought of the ensuing flood’s cleansing properties. It’s just like Bronson
Divider / Colony
New York has some new blood in the forms of DIVIDER (Long Island, NY) and COLONY (Hudson Valley, NY), both bands having a sludge/hardcore sound and both that are making some waves in the underground. Both bands have recently self-released a new split 7 inch EP in 3 different vinyl colors and contains 4 tracks
Hunters – From Birth To Soil
In movies, books, artwork, and general folklore, the prehistoric woolly mammoth has, throughout history, often been portrayed as a gigantic, lumbering peacefully-minded juggernaut that will, however, put any would-be predator and/or dipshit, Neanderthal asshole square in their place if the elephant-like giant felt at all threatened. I’m guessing that being stomped into the tundra by
Forbidden Magazine presents: Nate of the Living Dead’s “Best of 2011″
Late August – Not For Human Consumption
“If you’re going to do something, do it well…and leave something witchy.” – Charles Manson The first thermonuclear bomb test unleashed the same amount of deadly energy and devastation as approximately ten million tons of TNT. With that kind of force, it’s pretty much a given that someone’s ass is going to be handed to