some days you just get up and you need some ripping black metal. you could talk a lot of smack about united states black metal if you wanted to, but these blokes are the genuine article. read this recent interview where they wax philosophical about how evil they are and see for yourself just how true is this guy's face tattoo.
_dj whips and leather
ripping black metal that sets the bar for how it's to be done in 2017 and beyond... hail and kill.
_alibi
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majestic dissonant dutch black metal perhaps of a similar vein as great groups like mitochondrion and ingurgitating oblivion.
_dj sundried man
these guys must have 8 hour band practices at least three times a week. untouchable technical brutal death. only bands to hold a candle to these guys that i know of are abysmal torment and guttural secrete.
_alibi
at the farthest reaches of that which is far out in heavy metal lies the music of jute gyte, and this two song e.p. is among his best.
_alibi
i read that the drummer on this record tragically passed away in a bulldozer accident... one listen to this masterpiece will clue you in to a sense of how the man behind the kit on this record might have been in a position to be doing some dangerous stuff with heavy machinery.
-mink nun
in their video for carrion prophesy, incantation's guitar player sports a do rag like sil from the soprano's when he rocks out with the e street band. it's a good look. i decided to check out this record because i really liked a record that came out last year by a band called ruinous, and the guitar player for that band plays on this record. it was a pleasure to discover that this band, who's been at it since 1989, can still crank out a solid death metal record two and a half decades later.
_mink nun
driving in my car with an old bandmate and lifelong chum last weekend i put on jim black's recent trio record, with which i am obsessed, because i wanted this man, who's musical opinion i respect very highly, to dig these sounds i'd been into recently. 'whoever thought you'd get into jazz...' he mused. it's true, i did used to view jazz as music that primarily belonged in elevators and cruise ships. and in the last decade or so my opinion reversed completely. 'i like complex music.' i told him. this was anything but a confession. this was more like an entreaty. tell me what music made with acoustic instruments has complexity, sophistication, and emotional depth lately. if i continue on this rant, i expose the fact that i am an old curmudgeon. i digress. we listened to the jim black record together, and at one point, in response to me saying, 'dude, check out this sick riff on track eight,' he said to me, 'this sounds like something thrill jockey could have put out back in their hay day.' this was high praise. thrill jockey is a chicago based record label that we two friends grew up following as a lighthouse that ushered in innovative instrumental music. rock groups who pushed the envelope like tortoise trans am and the sea and cake along with innovative electronic pop acts like oval and mouse on mars really expanded horizons for young minds like ours in the 90s. is innovative music made much with guitars these days? certainly. thrill jockey remains active and still deserves accolades for putting out records by artists representing a vast array of musical styles to this day. labels are for profit, and a lot of the artists currently on that label in question come from one scene or another. this in and of itself does not make the music bad. nonetheless, for my money, music from farther flung scenes, or from no scenes at all, take the biscuit when it comes to making innovative music, these days more than ever, it seems. check out these two tracks by shrine of insanibilis and tell me if you agree.
_dj diaper cream
