Tag: New York

  • NastyFacts – “Drive My Car” (Limited Edition Deluxe 12” single)

    NastyFacts – “Drive My Car” (Limited Edition Deluxe 12” single)

    Nastyfacts “Drive My Car” (Limited Edition Deluxe 12” single) (Left For Dead Records) As every punk knows, it’s not terribly uncommon for many bands of a certain vintage to have a pretty abbreviated catalogue of releases. The idea of “one and done” isn’t uncommon at all, really – but it’s still saying something when a…

  • Ruin/Anthropic Split

    Ruin/Anthropic Split

    Horrifying samples, trudging through filth, and I keep turning up the volume.  Let’s see, what is this song called – oh, “Trapped in Relentless Terror” – alright, well, that makes sense.  You can practically hear Gollum skulking around in the cave, losing yourself in the first half of this crushing split from Ruin and Anthropic. …

  • River Cult – Halcyon Daze

    River Cult – Halcyon Daze

    Earthless already has a couple opening acts lined up for their upcoming North American tour, but if they ever needed another one, they couldn’t do much better than this New York heavy psych trio. River Cult busts a groove and kicks out the jams for over 40 minutes here on their full-length debut. “Likelihood of…

  • Clouds Taste Satanic – To Sleep Beyond The Earth

    Clouds Taste Satanic – To Sleep Beyond The Earth

    Take the minimalistic, defiantly monotonous widescreen dynamics of Dopesmoker era Sleep out of its vast desert backdrop and into the claustrophobic urban confines of contemporary Brooklyn. No, this isn’t the setup to a cruel Invisible Oranges joke. Glacially-paced NYC instrumental doom quartet Clouds Taste Satanic (nothing like a Flaming Lips reference to bolster yr tr00…

  • Hunters Re-Introduce Themselves

    Hunters Re-Introduce Themselves

    While Hunters’ smash self-titled album has been on record store shelves now for almost a year, the shine hasn’t faded from the album for the band yet. In fact, it still feels incredibly new for singer Izzy Almeida and singer/guitarist Derek Watson – and part of the reason why lies in the fact that the…

  • Artificial Brain – Labyrinth Constellation

    Artificial Brain – Labyrinth Constellation

    By Matt Hinch A few things are required for assembling an Artificial Brain: extremely talented musicians, super-technical riffs, complicated song arrangements, Colin Marston production, terrifying extra-terrestrial battle artwork by Paulo Girardi, and a release on Profound Lore. Fitting all those pieces together results in this New York tech-death band and their debut full-length, Labyrinth Constellation.…

  • There’s nothing like the sound of Neurosis in wintertime…

    Doom metal, in general, is not summertime music. When the sun’s out, the temperature’s rising and yer sweatin’ balls, you wanna cruise down the blacktop blasting some Kyuss or Fu Manchu, not some slow, melancholic, depressing tunes. Not that I have anything against slow and depressing, mind you–I just don’t have it pumping on the…

  • Black Anvil – Triumvirate

    Black Anvil has given us a decent collection of songs with a genuine spin that can only reflect positively on the new wave of black metal in North America

  • Portal/ Krallice/ Bloody Panda @ Mohawk Place, Buffalo NY May 24, 2010

    The energy that Portal projected, both in their music and their sheer physical presence, was overwhelming. Every gesture that The Curator made was impossibly intense. I spent the entire set staring wildly up at the band, certain that any moment something Very Bad was going to happen. They’re masters at wielding this carefully managed sense…

  • Meshuggah – Alive

    In less talented hands, the 90 minute concert film that constitutes the centerpiece of Alive would come off as a sloppily arranged mess, but director/editor Ian McFarland’s footage is so well-shot and so tastefully edited that we can’t help but forgive him for making the whole experience a touch disjointed. Adrien Begrand reviews the brand…