Pret a Portal
Everyone’s favorite furniture-headed death metallers are back. On October 20, Australia’s Portal will release Swarth on Profound Lore. (See album cover here.) Like its predecessor Outre (reviewed here), the album should delight, annoy, terrify, and polarize. For a taste, hear “Larvae” below. It exemplifies what makes Portal so fresh: turbulent dissonance, otherworldly vocals, and no...
Doomed to be stoned in a sludge swamp
Culted Moving time for me is fast approaching. To lighten my load, I’m giving away 25 sludge/stoner/doom metal CD’s. These subgenres have become independent scenes, but they overlap in sound enough for me to lump them together. “Slow and heavy” is all the “scene” one needs, no? These CD’s consist of demos, promos, and finished...