Cloud Rat just released one of the most thrilling hardcore albums of the year. this thing will ram its fist down your throat and show you your own heart.
this one is my favorite
"life's a bowl of cherries,
you can have as many as you can carry"
that phrase has been stuck in my head since i first heard it many years ago. peace to you, Daniel, you beautiful, restless soul.
coulda sworn this had a Tom byline when i looked at it... the whole time i was thinking "wait, doesn't Tom live in Charlottesville, and definitely wasn't 18 in 2009?"
so, uh... story checks out. sorry Ryan!
Tom, while you were enjoying your new life in the city, i was already 2 years in and doing a reverse commute from Bushwick to my job at a liquor store in Jersey City (because i studied poetry during a financial crisis, like a genius). the liquor store only played Lite FM, which means i heard the Alicia Keys version every single day while selling tall boys to homeless people at the mouth of the Holland Tunnel, before returning into the yawning maw of the city and wondering why the fuck i even live here if i work for minimum wage in New Jersey. where dreams are made of, indeed. so yeah, this song just makes me depressed.
in high school my friends and i used to hang out at the Princeton fountain with an accordion and sing "All My Little Words" at all the couples making out. i wonder why we weren't more popular.
for me, AOTD is a toss-up between Familiars and Good Kid, MAAD City. the former is a very personal choice, a record that probably saved my life, and the latter is the thesis statement from the artist of the decade.
though if i could combine Street Halo and Kindred into one perfect album, Burial would probably run away with the whole thing.
the frontman of Mgla released a solo album called Judenfrei ("Free of Jews"). i'm not the music police, i must admit i still spin Paracletus from time to time because that record is fucking killer, but that's a hell nooooooo from me, dogg.
re-listened to Historian on a road trip recently and yep, it's still going on my decade Top 10. No Burden never quite clicked with me, but I should revisit
sorry bb. it's lame as fuck that we have to be on our toes about every single European BM band just in case they're secret Nazis.
(my phone autocorrected this to "secret nachos" which would be way better. shit, now i want to listen to Weekend Nachos, as long as they aren't Weekend Nazis)
what up ding-dongs, heavy music coming atcha:
first up, our boy Doug Moore is all grown up and about to release some massive and beautiful doomy death (or is deathly doom?) under the name Weeping Sores, on everyone's favorite weirdo art-metal label, I Voidhanger!
the new Hellripper EP is very fun, very catchy black 'n roll. party metal!
check out Arboricidio for all your antifa crust punk/d-beat needs. highly recommended if you liked the last Svalbard, or Totem Skin, or that type of shit in general.
Witch Vomit is some extremely nasty, no-frills death metal. Wizard Rifle is a psychedelic stew of sludge and stoner doom. Typical patriarchy- wizards get a rifle, witches just get vomit.
finally, the new Mizmor crushes, obviously. i'm not a huge fan of doom, i usually prefer my metal fast and rowdy, but this thing is otherwordly.
have an evil weekend, everyone!
came here to post this exact same thing. dead prez are OG, can't believe they weren't mentioned.
all of the wagging grandma fingers in this comment section are deeply embarrassing. crime is fun, y'all. be gay, do crime.
