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If you know black metal, you probably know Debemur Morti. The French label, along with its distro Eitrin Editions, has been a bastion of quality, with bands including Horna, Archgoat, Spektr, and Old Wainds. It also handles European distribution for many Moribund releases. Debemur Morti recently put out five records which amount to an embarrassment […]

Hypothetical black metal urban poster campaign What’s that? You don’t have Hiems‘ new album yet? Who’s Hiems? Funny you should ask. I reviewed their last record here and their new one here. Worship or Die (Moribund, 2009) is my favorite black metal album so far this year. Yeah, I know. Black metal isn’t doing so […]

…for Decibel. CD’s technically can’t hold that many tracks, so these contain many songs each. For example, here is Cripple Bastards‘ 94-song demo from November 1992. Total length? 5:11. 94 song demo, Nov. 1992 The Italian grindcore act has gotten much “better” since then. I did a feature on them (preview here) in Decibel‘s grindcore […]

I recently watched Flashdance for the first time. It is one of the greatest movies I have ever seen. Even though it is not very good, it is great. Never mind its two-dimensional characters, formulaic arc (a straight line), or that it would spawn Save the Last Dance with the addition of hip-hop and jungle […]