Lethargy [Weekly Mixtape 119]

Tətsuo • Cell Press • Godflesh
The Black Flamingo • Heavy for the Vintage • Kill The Thrill
Alber Jupiter • Midas Fall • meth. • Glyph
Mudshow • Charles East • Baratro

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Prelude To Post [Weekly Mixtape 85]

Swans • Neurosis • Faith No More • Godflesh
Harvey Milk • Unsane • Today Is The Day • Meatjack
Bloodlet • Breach • Kiss It Goodbye • Will Haven

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Bandcamp Friday Picks [August 2023]

Bandcamp Fridays are back after a two month hiatus, so here are some recent releases that you should support with some $$$. The platform is waiving its fees for all purchases made today, so there's no better time to hand some independant artists and labels your cash.

Slag [Weekly Mixtape 57]

Swans • Fall of Because • Bottom • Zeni Geva
Harvey Milk • Fudge Tunnel • Art Of Burning Water
Sky Pig • Culted • Cerbère • Tons • Unsane

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Pulse [Weekly Mixtape 54]

Godflesh • Voivod • Killing Joke • Dead Kennedys • Devo • Judas Priest • Motörhead
The Stooges • Hawkwind • Neu! • Destruction Unit • Loop • The Ramones

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Schwerindustrie [Weekly Mixtape 6•24•2022]

Godflesh • Above & Below • Foetus • Einstürzende Neubauten
Kollaps • MØTIVATIØN • N8NOFACE • KYOTY • ScorpKlub • Gridfailure
Luminous Vault • Depressor • Omnibael • MASTER BOOT RECORD

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Clean Streets[Weeekly Mixtape 2.18.2022]

Haiku Funeral • Ministry • Lard • Melted Bodies • THE LION'S DAUGHTER • Sigillum S & Macelleria Mobile di Mezzanotte • OLD • Foetus • Human Impact • Godflesh



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2017: A Year to Survive

One of the more terrible years of my life is coming to a close. But before I get to say goodbye to 2017, I had to suffer through another fucking holiday season of appropriated pagan traditions, crass materialism and yuppie entitlement. Do you know anyone who hates Christmas? I mean, genuinely despises it? Well you do now.

Among the more useless traditions of the season is the year end list. As people gather around their screens to feel smug about how hip or "kvlt" their music choices are (delivered to them by the ür kvlt platforms of Spotify and Apple), I thought I'd try something a little different. Instead of "the ten best albums of 2017", I revisited releases by the bands who I've been listening to for a decade or more; the bands whose music shaped what I listen to - and in the case of one band, who I am.

Bandcamp Picks - Godflesh, Thaw, Svartidauði, Gnaw

Stripped of the grime of their earliest albums, Godflesh still has the power to unsettle. In case you forgot about Justin Broadrick's extended dub phase, Post Self is here to remind you of the fact, following up where releases like Nihil and the temporarily shelved Messiah left off - with G.C. Green's bass anchoring Broadrick's ambient guitar to the most machine-like beats the duo have employed in decades. Robotic in the best possible way. [$8]



Thaw have embraced noise since their earliest recordings. Though the band has deep roots in Poland's vibrant death and black metal scenes, Grains is ostensibly a doom drone album, finding common ground with the likes of Black Boned Angel and Earth in both its monolithic assault and ambient interludes. A marriage of knuckle dragging hesherdom and chin-stroking experimentation. [$7.90]



Iceland's Svartidauði are themselves no strangers to avant garde weirdness. Their latest two song EP is a rabbit hole of nightmarish psychedelic black metal, with "Exultation" consisting of a single guitar melody repeated over shifting drum patterns. Two songs lasting 14 minutes - to ask for more would be to invite madness. [€2]

With a lineage that goes back to the genre-hopping grind of OLD and the proto-industrial of Ike Yard, Gnaw is a band that can be relied on to bring the noise. Cutting Pieces is album number three for the NY band, broadening their caustic sludge with experimental electronic music and Alan Dubin's tormented diatribes. As reassuring as a choir of dental drills. [$6.99]