Isis: new song, new record
Isis have posted a track, “20 Minutes / 40 Years,” from their new record, Wavering Radiant, out May 5th on Ipecac. It’s both interesting and not. The intro is the best part, with nocturnal atmospherics and indefinite tonality. It reminds me of ’80s action movies, in the non-action parts. As for the song’s body –...
Tribulation - The Horror
Yet another band exhumes old-school Swedish death metal. Arvika’s Tribulation, formerly Hazard, do so with undead zeal on their debut full-length, The Horror (Pulverised, 2009). It’s meat-and-potatoes stuff, topped with black metal pepper and rosemary (‘s baby), i.e., horror movie trappings – a string shriek here, a discordant piano there. They’re not enough to be...
Bonded by Blood, Exmortus free show
Bonded by Blood, Exmortus, and Witchaven are playing a free show in Brooklyn Queens this Saturday 3/28 at The Water Grill, a French/Japanese restaurant The Lone Star Bar and Grill, a Country/Western bar Maric Lanes, a bowling alley (7pm, 1945 49th St., Long Island City, NY). These California retro thrashers are currently out on the...