Disfear ‘Live The Storm’ CD 2008
What does the term Punk Rock mean these days? It’s a genre so watered down by lightweight, pop star-aspiring posturing, and if were honest it never meant much in the first place anyway. The Sex Pistols...
View ArticleTrap Them ‘Seizures In Barren Praise’ CD/LP 2008
Jesus-fuck-Mary-and-Joseph…this is fucking dirty, dirty grind, punk, metal! Take Nasum’s high velocity head spinning grind, that very same grind that breathed new life into the whole genre and made it...
View ArticleBlack Breath ‘Heavy Breathing’ CD 2010
Smashing straight out of the speakers and grabbing the listener roughly by the throat, Black Breath show that they are NOT fucking around and they WILL bang that head that doesn’t bang. HARD. The...
View ArticleThe Secret ‘Solve Et Coagula’ CD/LP 2010
It would be a tough task to review Southern Lord’s latest sonic slab of filth without using the word ‘blackened’ at some stage. So please excuse me if it slips in a few times here and there! The Secret...
View ArticleNails ‘Unsilent Death’ CD 2010
OUCH. Nails are NOT screwin’ around here. ‘Unsilent Death’ is some seriously nasty grinding FILTH and no mistake. At slightly less than fourteen minutes long, it’s certainly the SHORTEST violent...
View ArticleTree Of Sores – S/T – CDEP 2011
One thing that Tree Of Sores do well is ‘ominous’. From the spectral loom of intro track…uhhh…’Intro’, right the way through to the closing number on this self-titled EP, ‘Silent Scream’ (no, not the...
View ArticleSummon The Crows ‘One More For The Gallows’ CD 2011
Hot off the press, this new Southern Lord Records release by Norwegian crust band Summon The Crows has arrived in lap. In the press release they have been described as a cross between raw–beat crust...
View ArticleSeven Sisters Of Sleep – S/T – CD 2011
Eight solid tracks like eight thrashing octopoid tentacles. Twenty minutes. That is all it takes to make a hardcore album. Perfect. After a good few years of soaking my head in one hour-plus albums of...
View ArticleAcephalix ‘Interminable Night’ CD 2011
Looks like Greg Anderson has stopped washing and is hanging out in the park with a bottle of ‘Wild ‘n’ White’ and a Sunn amp on a rope, cuz Southern Lord has gone all-out raging crust with this latest...
View ArticleXibalba ‘Madre Mia Gracias Por Los Dias’ CD 2011
MADRE DE DIOS!! Xibalba aren’t fuckin’ around, they take NO prisoners. Combining the glutinous guitar tone of prime Obituary with the bleak doom heaviosity of Crowbar and the relentless beatdowns of...
View ArticlePlanks ‘The Darkest Of Grays / Solicit To Fall’ CD 2011
You’ll be unsurprised to hear, given the Crust content of SL’s latest batch of releases, that the oddly-named Planks are purveyors of epic dark crusty hardcore/metal, and – as with the Alpinist and...
View ArticleHot Graves ‘Desecration Time’ 7″
Hot Graves have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass, and they’re aaaaaaaall outta bubblegum. Totally ripping, raw old-school thrash with a touch of death and a hefty heaping of D-Beat is the order...
View ArticleHot Graves ‘Knights In White Phosphorus’ CD 2011
“Running and hunting and slashing and crushing and searching and seeing and stabbing and shooting and thrashing and smashing and burning and destroying and killing and bleeding and pleading then...
View ArticleNails ‘Abandon All Life’ CD/LP 2013
Nails. Not often has a band been better named, this full-bore sludgy grindcore three-piece monstrosity is simply HARD AS NAILS. You may have come across them in 2010 as their Kurt Ballou-produced blunt...
View ArticleReview: Wolfbrigade ‘The Enemy: Reality’
The roots of Wolfbrigade can be traced back to the early 80’s and a band called Anti-Cimex who were Sweden’s answer to Discharge. That band released a classic 7″, the delightfully named Raped Ass,...
View ArticleHot Graves ‘Desecration Time’ 7″
Hot Graves have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass, and they’re aaaaaaaall outta bubblegum. Totally ripping, raw old-school thrash with a touch of death and a hefty heaping of D-Beat is the order...
View ArticleHot Graves ‘Knights In White Phosphorus’ CD 2011
“Running and hunting and slashing and crushing and searching and seeing and stabbing and shooting and thrashing and smashing and burning and destroying and killing and bleeding and pleading then...
View ArticleNails ‘Abandon All Life’ CD/LP 2013
Nails. Not often has a band been better named, this full-bore sludgy grindcore three-piece monstrosity is simply HARD AS NAILS. You may have come across them in 2010 as their Kurt Ballou-produced blunt...
View ArticleReview: Wolfbrigade ‘The Enemy: Reality’
The roots of Wolfbrigade can be traced back to the early 80’s and a band called Anti-Cimex who were Sweden’s answer to Discharge. That band released a classic 7″, the delightfully named Raped Ass,...
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