I’ve never liked Full of Hell. I think its the vocals. Its either too Cookie Monster or too high pitched scream. 

The Body, I just kind of overlooked. I checked out “No One Deserves Happiness,” I remember some hype and something about Beyonce, but it didn’t do anything for me. But after listening to “One Day You Will Ache Like I Ache,” the collaborative album this track is from, I will be revisiting it.

The doomy sludge of this track is fantastic. 

“Of all the types of music you listen to, I hate this kind the most.”– My wife.

Slow and moody and maybe a little sexy?

I really like the first track from the almum, “My Fear” a lot. Its like the rest of the album, but with John Carpenter synths on top of it. Its really good, but not a great resprentation of the album as whole, “Womb” is beter at that.

The internet  (the band’s band camp page included) keep referring to this band/album as Black Metal.  If this really fits into that genre, I probably need to examine my “Back Metal is bullshit” theory.

My favorite track on the album is actually “Dried Blood and Old Earth, ” a 13+ minute ambient sludge track. But “Take This Pain Away” is a better representation of the album as a whole.

Jesus this is dark. 

”Sometime in the Spring of 2009 I tried to kill myself. Six months before that, I used a Voor’s Head Device for the first time.“  This line opens the 150-page book that accompanies Giles Corey, an intensely personal, intimate portrait of depression that took me almost 4 years to make.” - Dan Barrett (Giles Corey)

Here is more about the album, and what a “Voor’s Head Device” is. 

A friend made a Facebook post about a doom band name generator. I gave it a try and I got “Void Architects,” which pretty good, but  I thought “Architects of the Void” sounded better. So good that there is no way that a band isn’t called that. So I did search on Bandcamp, and I ended up on  Behold! The Monolith’s page. Their latest album being called “Architects of the Void.”

I don’t dally go for the super growly vocals, but they work on this track. They are more or less texture, another level of sound.  Other tracks from the album don’t fair as well (more me) with the vocals basically becoming exactly what I don’t like about growling. 

Umbral Vale probably isn’t the best representation of the album as a whole. Its shorter and sludgier than most of the album and lacks real vocals, which is probably why its my stand out track.

I can not stress enough how much I absolutely love the album this song is from, “Wolven (A Modern Interpretation).” I never seem to get tired of it. 

Dag Rosenqvist, is one of the 9 musicians who contributed the the Wolven album. He previously went by the name Jasper TX, and was previously posted on this site  6 years ago,.

Go buy the Wolven album or just listen to it on Spotify. I can’t recommend it enough.

Its not all yelling and banging on stuff around here. Sometimes its sad, songs with a touch of the good Ryan Adams.

I slept hard on this band for a few reason: lots go guys in the band, all wearing suits (at least the few promo photos I had seen), a dude in an eye patch and Asian Man put out their albums. I just assumed they were a ska band and I didn’t need to bother.

I was so wrong. Thanks again Spotify Discover weekly playlist.

Atom Age are bringing the hot RFTC style fire.

Photo stolen from Jamy Cabre

I’m not crazy about this band’s name. However after (very) a little research I would guess the name is lifted from 1942 book by Philip Wylie, that is basically about how everything is stupid and fuck everything. 

Makes their name a little cooler.

Photo stolen from Karen Mann.

Ex Charles Bronson, Das Oath, Holy Molar, Ampere, Orchid, etc, etc. Released on Youth Attack. 

Buy it here.

I pictured burlier dudes making this music, but its skinny kids in chokers. 

I also pulled this picture from MySpace. Weird. 

This is the only Rilo Kiley song I’ve ever liked. No matter how many people in their heyday tried to convince me they were great, I wasn’t having any of it.

A couple months ago this song popped up on my Spotify Discover Weekly playlist. It start playing and I was super into, then I checked to see what is was and I out loud said “God Damnit.”

Photo stolen from Rachel Brooke.