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SWANS DEEP DIVE, Pt. 2
Everyone says this album is really similar to filth and while sonically and production wise, this is true, there are a lot of huge differences that just make this one way worse. Filth was at least somewhat compelling, bro I just wanted this one to BE OVER UGH. It's so FREAKING REPETITIVE and slower and more boring than Filth. Not a single song has an interesting groove just DAAAHHHH-DUUUHHHH over and over and the vocals are even more depraved but they're not ... read more

SWANS DEEP DIVE, Pt. 1
The Swans deep dive that will take quite a while got off to a pretty solid start with Filth. A lot of hard hitting, brutal industrial tracks up in this thing, the first song Stay Here is seriously fricking groovy.
Despite the awful production and pretty repetitive songwriting (every song kinda just ends in a fadeout with Michael Gira grating some horrid noise through his teeth over and over), this one really knocked the nihilistic atmosphere and 'filthy' ... read more

WEEKLY NON-NEW REVIEW #2
Agalloch, an incredible black metal band from Oregon, USA, arguably created their masterpiece in 2002. The Mantle Is a supremely immersive journey through crushing grief and longing, the pale beauty of a gray winter forest, and suicide and desolation.
It begins with just the strumming of an acoustic guitar, punctuated first by this album's thunderous kick drum sound. It evolves into the 14-minute masterpiece 'In The Shadow Of Our Pale Companion', which ... read more

WEEKLY NEW MUSIC REVIEW #1
This week, I'm reviewing Black Milk & Fat Ray's new album Food from the Gods.
Black Milk and Fat Ray are a rapper/producer duo from Detroit, a city that really has it's own unique, gritty sound and foothold in the underground rap game.
Both have been making consistently solid music for the last decade and a half or so, you may know Black Milk best from producing Danny Brown and co.'s legendary posse cut 'Really Doe' off his ... read more