Dark Suns “Swanlike” (Voice of Life Records) Dreamy music clinically designed in sound labs throughout Germany to lull the listener off into slumbery otherworldly place only to have the vocalist start growling like a bear with his paw in the…
Mike Marshall & Darol Anger “The Duo Live: At Home and On the Range” (Compass Records) When Marshall and Anger speak of “on the range,” they refer to that open road that they are three-quarters of the way to having…
Disillusion “The Porter” (Voice of Life Records) This is a review of a single. This is a magazine published in America. Our core audience of readers are Americans and Americans, especially fans of niche and alternative music, do not buy…
Dog Fashion Disco “Committed to a Bright Future” (Spitfire Records) Quirky, aggressive metal/circus music hybrid. Somebody’s Mr.Bungle is peeking through (mostly in the creepy keyboards that find their way into most every song). Keeping it as fresh as any other…
The Doubt Machine “Controlled Confusion” (Out Records) This is what Black Sabbath would play at their after-show party if they were still around. Take equal parts trip-hop industrial noise and blend them with a smattering of evil and you’d come close to…
Drexel ““The Inevitable is Available”” (Fork In Hand Records) When I first threw this one in this sick ass hardcore comes on and I just started day dreaming about the title of this album, “The Inevitable is Available”. It’s like…
Drop Logic “Fear & Sunlight” (AMC) Just another formulaic and wholly uninspired rap/metal hybrid act that believes they’re different from all the other ass-slapping rap/metal hybrid acts. Drop Logic, however, aren’t content to just rap over the heavy metal tomfoolery,…
Appliance “Are You Earthed?” (Mute) Appliance is a suitable name for a band known for making its own musical appliances. One such is device is the Thrippler. This tone generator is a Hamlet tin filled with parts from old video…
Arcana “Inner Pale Sun” (Cold Meat Industry) While it appeared The Last Embrace, released over two years before Inner Pale Sun, was to be the final chapter in Arcana, which proves to not be the case. Peter Pettersson’s new album…
Benumb “By Means of Upheaval” (Relapse Records) Viscous grindcore from the San Francisco area. Benumb’s songs are short bursts of savagery, often clocking in at less than a minute. Their ability to beat the listener senseless in that short amount…