Archive for November 2024

Fulminate – Disintegration of Mechanical Entrails (2024)

November 3, 2024

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

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V/A – Earache Records – Masters Of Misery (1992)

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,…

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Vitamin X – Down The Drain (2002)

November 2, 2024

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…

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Disinterment – Graveyard Fornication (2005)

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!

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Saxon – Denim and Leather (1981)

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, itโ€™s popping off over here on Denim And Leather. The songs are catchy as hell. Iโ€™m not suuuuper sold on Byfordโ€™s vocals at this point but hopefully they will grow on me. Fire in the Sky!!!!

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Ozzy Osbourne – The Ultimate Sin (1986)

An interesting one. At first note, it sounds heavier than any of the previous albums, but as the songs progress thereโ€™s actually less โ€œmetalโ€ here than ever before and more so is just โ€œrockโ€ dressed up in a big sound. It may feel like Iโ€™m splitting hairs, but fuck it. Also, Ozzy sounds tired as fuck on this one, like he just canโ€™t be arsed. Production-wise, things are still pretty top-tier but the boxed in…

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