I asked this question last night on the DBS Facebook page. Here are the responses, with mine first: Juan Butts – Death Toll 80k, War Master, Misanthropic Noise, Gowl, (my two local faves) and Ilsa. Connor Donegan – No Tolerance, The Rival Mob, Coke Bust, Double Negative, and No Tomorrow. Bartholomew Howitzer – Curmudgeon, Iron …
Sore Throat vs. S.O.B. vs. Disrupt vs. Septic Death
I personally have listened to Disrupt the most out of these bands because their music is easier to come by. I love their politics. S.O.B. has an obvious special place in my heart, see the name of this blog. Septic Death I love and had the luck to find some of their stuff on Discogs …
Too Early for Spring Cleaning
Every few weeks, I purge my record collection to make room for new stuff, and to get money to buy new stuff. There’s no motive of gain, some sort of pyramid scheme, or anything like that. To me, records have a utility to them. I’m not a collector, I’m just a listener. So, when searching …
5 Grindcore Records You Probably Didn’t Buy in 2010
The following are five noteworthy records released this year that I heard almost nothing about. Were it not for my love of discovering new music, I wouldn’t have known to get these. I had to really think about 5 good grind records from this year, as it seemed a sad year for new grind releases. …
Best Album Of The Year
…is Contagium‘s Archaic LP. The album contains 9 songs of pure aural bliss from these three Halifax punks. Contagium knows how to seek out a lumbering rhythm, and use it to plod along through a song until piledriving the speed at just the right moment, allowing chaos to ensue. The sparingly-used vocals are bleak and …