If you read the site, you’re probably well aware of Young Widows, we’ve covered them a million times. Their new album on Temporary Residence, “In and Out of Youth and Lightness”, is as well-written and mature as anything they’ve done before. I haven’t spent a whole lot of time with it yet, but it might [...]

Gog have staked out quite a plot in the heavy music landscape. By the sound of it – a dark and desolate valley where hooded wraiths channel black holes via amplified feedback and end up conjuring noise as dense as the planets. Vibrations that you will feel and hear, from the deepest narcoleptic drone to [...]

Black metal from Bloomington, Indiana. Probably not what you were expecting though, unless you were expected some blurred-out necro fuzziness dubbed from a tenth generation VHS bootleg. With a vocal aesthetic that at times seems more in line with Not Not Fun than with Sweden’s church-torching locals, this peculiar slab of lo-fi psychedelic blackness can [...]

What can I tell you about Harvey Milk that you don’t already know? This band somehow managed to claw off the crust of 90′s obscurity and reinvent themselves as critical darlings for a new century of heavy metal lovers. All while giving absolutely not a single shit. This is the 3rd vinyl issue of this [...]

The next three posts are attempts at getting through the highlights from our ever-growing promo/review pile. Dark Sea Dream’s self-titled album, presented by the always-impressive Prophase label, is a loud, bludgeoning affair.  Falling somewhere between the noise-rock of Sonic Youth or The Dead C and straight up doom metal, this record is best played with [...]

Malibu Wands is the noisier moniker of William Cody Watson, aka Pink Priest.  For his new lathe-cut 7″, rather than including only his usual dark dirges, WCW enlisted Frank Baugh aka Sparkling Wide Pressure to collaborate on the a-side, “Honeyhead”.  The b-side is some solo Watson, and is equally awesome.  This is limited to only [...]

A new album of menacing drone and metal from the Pacific Northwest. Trees don’t fuck around, and this album is not for fucking around. Order it and give it a spin whenever you are in need of a right, proper face shredding. 100 copies on clear vinyl, 400 copies on purest black. $15 at planariainc.com.

This mysterious, minimally packaged record showed up here a few days ago with a note only stating “Since 1988 – Ultrabunny – “Nuff Said!”.  Apparently that actually wasn’t “nuff said”, since I had no idea what I was putting on my turntable, but it turned out for the best, as any one-sheet for the record [...]

For the next paragraph or so, you can watch me flail around trying to explain this record, which, since it sounds unlike anything you’ve heard before, is almost impossible.  Like something that leaked out of a weirdo’s bedroom in the late 70′s, the influences are far and wide, landing somewhere between Neu! and straight up [...]

It won’t be hard to notice that both of these LPs came out quite awhile ago, but I figured as long as you are all sitting around waiting for a vinyl edition of Union Of Irreconcilables we might as well point at that the first two albums from this incredible duo are indeed readily available [...]