Krallice — Crystaline ExhaustionWhat’s most impressive about Krallice’s eleventh studio release, “Crystalline Exhaustion” is how much it still sounds like the humble…Jan 31, 2022Jan 31, 2022
Essential ServiceHour five of carting your steel three-tier over ice and pavement, it’s racket drowning out any sound but your own drive up hustle. Hop the…Feb 4, 20211Feb 4, 20211
Enslaved — UtgardEnslaved has always been on the spiritual margins of black metal. Their early second wave sound was never as straightforward as early…Nov 15, 2020Nov 15, 2020
Edenic Past — Red AmarcordBrutal death metal is a live band’s music. Ping snares blasting atop chugging drop tuned bass and skronking guitar leads lend themselves…Nov 6, 2020Nov 6, 2020
Ulcerate — Stare Into Death and Be StillCOVID-19 erodes the promise that the lives of our loved ones are guaranteed in the morning. For the first time in a century, the globe…Sep 12, 2020Sep 12, 2020
Krallice — Mass CathexisEvery subsequent album by Krallice, New York’s avant-garde metal chimera, better utilizes each members instruments. Starting their canon…Sep 10, 2020Sep 10, 2020
You Do Not Belong Here: From Industry to Interloper in HALF-LIFEBeams that shake and creak as you struggle for balance. Steel drums that bleed green, irradiated fluid. You are Gordan Freeman, a…Jan 22, 20191Jan 22, 20191
Writing Better Men: A Look at Masculinity in The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit FilmsMom and Dad weren’t officially divorced yet, but Dad was in Orlando and Mom just out of New York. I was in hell. Depression and dysphoria…Dec 21, 20182Dec 21, 20182
Video Game Paralysis: Loving Games with BPDVideo games are challenging for me. On one side there are the straight-forward kinds of challenges, those familiar characteristics of…Nov 13, 2018Nov 13, 2018
borderline immigrantMy name is fuck. I live under the porch, smoking sweet daffodils and I plant the trash in the garden to grow rubber trees and oxycontin…Oct 28, 2018Oct 28, 2018
