Review: Bongzilla
Bongzilla “Gateway” (Relapse Records) With a name like Bongzilla there is little chance of a misconception. Any idiot can easily see that this is stoner rock even before you pop this little piece of THC into your disc player. Now…
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Review: Benumb
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…
Review: Godflesh
Godflesh “Messiah” (Relapse Records) And the sludge crawls on. Godflesh define pounding rhythms. It is sometimes stark, and often bruising. It just pounds and pounds relentlessly. It’s edge worn dull from it’s dragging tempos and scraping guitars that drip in…
Review: Agoraphobic Nosebleed
Agoraphobic Nosebleed “Altered States of America” (Relapse Records) Agoraphobic Nosebleed are sonic terrorists. They use their music as assaults on the witting, and on this album they go all out for it with 100 songs on a wee three-inch mini-disc.…
Review: Skinless
Skinless “From Sacrifice to Survival” (Relapse Records) The band is called Skinless; would you accept it if they played anything other than death metal? Well, they do play death metal and the closest comparison I can think of off the…
Review: Naglfar
Naglfar “Diabolical” (Relapse Records) I wish a black metal band would come out with a song that goes, “Worship the Devil, Worship the Devil, Worship the Devil!” over and over again. I think that would be sick. And it could…
Review: Sulaco
Sulaco “Self-Titled” (Relapse Records) Upon initial listen of Sulaco (an “all-star band” of sorts if you can call survivors from various forgettable death metal bands “stars”), one is put off faster than imagining naked photos of Roseanne Barr with a…
Interview: Pig Destroyer
(this interview originally appeared in issue #17 of Modern Fix Magazine in 2002). – interview by rinaldo It is probably close to 11:30 at night. I am standing outside 924 Gilman Street in Berkeley, CA. The surroundings of the…