TUKAARIA

Seriously, those Southern California dudes are really good at this black metal stuff. Minor keys and howling vocals imprisoned by a blinding...

MERCYNARY

It's easy to throw around awe inspiring descriptors all willy nilly, but this demo fukkn rips .  This 1989 banger is the second of four ...

BRUTAL TRUTH

I was a new wave kid with punk leanings. Sure, I had a METALLICA tape ( Garage Days...Rerevisited was where I started) and I bought Reign In...

DEHUMANIZED

After watching HYSTERICS and GRIMACE melt my face two nights in a row, it seemed logical to share some Northwest love. DEHUMANIZED feature H...

TRAUMA

Old school death metal from Argentina tempered with some of the unfortunate trappings that the mid 1990s brought to mainstream heavy music. ...

NECROMIS

Death metal ain't my thing. Those words might read as blasphemy to some, but the genre has never really grabbed me. However, I like to t...

UPSIDEDOWN CROSS

Boston's UPSIDEDOWN CROSS are a thing of mystery. Formed from the ashes of the equally mystifying KILSLUG, their releases combine drug a...

SHIT

Who doesn't want to start their Sunday with 5 minutes of downtuned blackened crust/metal mayhem? Dummies, that's who. Since you are ...

BLATHERSKITE

This might be one of those "time and place" bands, but I dare say that if you lived anywhere near Indianapolis, Indiana in the ...

TOON DISASTERS

I've often praised the power of a well crafted mix tape, and Toon Disasters is exactly that. Excellent combination of deep cuts (10,000...

POVERTY RECORDS SAMPLER

It was the 1990s, and the idea of starting a label with two bands a roster made up of drug addled savants from the neighborhood, your aspiri...

PLUTOCRACY

Fuck. PLUTOCRACY was in a league (and often a world) all their own. Death metal weaned on powerviolence and genuine disenfranchisement, perh...

THE LAST MIX

Not actually the last Friday mix tape (though I have debated ending the weekly tradition), but a relic from the Milwaukee Mix Tape Exchange ...

STRONGBLOOD

The apocalypse is apparently filled with primitive beats and cro magnon guitar riffing. The future is also apparently very evil, and it arri...

THE WILD BUNCH

As went the musical tastes of a large part of the underground in the mid '80s, so went the progression of cassette releases from seminal...

STRESS

Last November when the CONQUEST FOR DEATH tour ended in Belém, Brasil, we had a few days to explore the city (the tourist books say it's...

EXTREME HARDCORE

Leaning more towards the DIY metal that was floating around the underground tape trading world and concentrating on bands from the South, Ex...

ODOUR OF DUST AND ROT

More sounds from a certain circle of incestuous black metal savants, this 60+ minute comp features many of the regular suspects (GLOSSOLALI...

ODZ MANOUK

Even more haunting black metal from the circle of Southern California madmen that call themselves Black Twilight. While I still leave discus...

QUIET RIOT

I am a shameless fan, have the tattoo to prove it, and these 1979 demos are QUIET RIOT's original lineup cranking through proto-Sunset S...