Archive for November 2024

Bubbling analog gorenoise to melt the skin off your face and the eyes out of your sockets.

I got this CD for pennies (it was one of the reissues with the white jewel case and it had the tracklist that included Anal Cunt – for some reason there appears to be multiple versions of this compilation with different tracks, even different covers by different bands! I guess a band like Cathedral has an emergency stash of various Sabbath covers to break out in times of need hahaha). Now, a band like Sleep,…

Fast as fuck, furious as fuck, and FUN as fuck as well! The latter element there is often missing in a lot of records. Like, it’s OK to have fun in punk or metal, folks, it really is!  Anyway, Down The Drain has a clear production that really helps this set of 23 belters hit home. Despite the clarity, the record isn’t overproduced, and it feels like Vitamin X are playing in the room with…

My lord, those drums are sloppier than going last at a gangbang. The downtuned blurs of guitars don’t help either; hammering the songs on this record home with a wet splatter, like being hit in the head over and over and over again by a moss-covered chunk of stone broken off the edge of a grave. Disgusting!

Do the Brits really do it better? For this kind of RAWK (read: metal) Saxon have got it locked down. From the production, to the riffs, it’s popping off over here on Denim And Leather. The songs are catchy as hell. I’m not suuuuper sold on Byford’s vocals at this point but hopefully they will grow on me. Fire in the Sky!!!!

An interesting one. At first note, it sounds heavier than any of the previous albums, but as the songs progress there’s actually less “metal” here than ever before and more so is just “rock” dressed up in a big sound. It may feel like I’m splitting hairs, but fuck it. Also, Ozzy sounds tired as fuck on this one, like he just can’t be arsed. Production-wise, things are still pretty top-tier but the boxed in…