SAINT VITUS – First Album Demo

I gotta give a tip o’ thee lid to the legions of nuevo-doom outfits out there. It’s gotta be tough making a living outta playing within the heavily scene-enforced signifiers of a marginalized genre (though it seems to’ve garnered some trendiness as of late). Even in my advanced state of jadedness there’s something noble [...]

Kick to Kill

TEST DEPT. – Beating the Retreat (1984)

Being a New World Man of thee Kanück Mütt persuasion, I have little to no grasp of the British class system. As far as I can figger– at least where it is applied to underground musicians– is that one should be “working class,” not speak with a “posh accent” [...]

DARKTHRONE: The Early Demos

The black metal franchise known as Darkthrone have had a lotta potshots taken at ‘em as of late. Cries of “sell-outs!” and “creatively washed up!” aren’t hard to find all over the intrawebs. I guess that’s bound to happen when your career has reached its second decade, but I still find it a little unfair. [...]

NECROS CHRISTOS – Grave Damnation (Demo)

Formed in Berlin in 2001 by multi-instrumentalist/vocalist Mors Dalos Ra, Necros Christos is blackened death metal in the finest tradition as exemplified by Treblinka/early Tiamat, Acheron and Göetia-era Mystifier. Heavily influenced by occult rituals, each track is prefaced by a numbered “Temple” which are spoken invocations or ethereal keyboard pieces. Last year’s “Triune Impurity Rites” [...]

“I Don’t Want To Get Better.”

Is he gone? Okay… this is just a quick one while he’s away…
CARBONAS – 1st EP (demo?)
Okay, so I’ve lived in Atlanta since 1998 and have watched as the scene went from struggling post-noise rock to self congratulatory R&R into the blossoming underground units we have today. It’s no surprise that Black Lips, [...]