Stormcrow / Laudanum - Sacred Death
Oakland is one of the unhappiest towns on earth. It’s San Francisco’s ugly sibling, an industrial wasteland of racial tension. Stormcrow and Laudanum hail from there and sound like it. Sacred Death (20 Buck Spin, 2009) may be the heaviest split I’ve ever heard. Stormcrow turn in two tracks of Bolt Thrower-style metallic crust. They’re...
People are weird, pt. 6
Hot in Herre Sports Illustrated used to have a little column called “This Week’s Sign That the Apocalypse Is Upon Us.” Documenting sports atrocities and injustices, it was by far my favorite feature of SI. “People are weird” is sort of the equivalent here. Normally, it highlights Google searches that lead here. Judging by their...