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Twisted Broadcast Self-Released2004 This demo CD has two original songs, but it also includes a video, photos, and two “pre-production” MP3’s. The band also sent a paper bio with full-color photos along with another CD containing two MP3’s, a cover of Anthrax’s “Indians” and another “pre-production” track. I don’t know why the band calls these […]

Referencing the notorious San Francisco district Haight Ashbury, Bongripper relishes another opportunity to smash the hippie mold. Hate Ashbury re-affirms the Chicago quartet’s slogan, “The only good hippie is a dead hippie.” A hostile illustration plasters Hate Ashbury with anti-beatnik animosity. All peace, love, and happiness vanish as the fingers of the peace sign are […]

by Cosmo Lee I feel the same way about Justin Broadrick as I do about Metallica: their later work doesn’t move me, but I cherish their earlier output. Earache is reissuing Godflesh’s Songs of Love and Hate (1996), Love and Hate in Dub (1997), and In All Languages DVD (2001) in a low-priced box set. […]

Hate Eternal for me is one of the pinnacles of human achievement – I mean that seriously. That three people can produce a sound so fast, fierce, and efficient blows me away. Haters cite the band’s relentless speed, and while that’s true of the first two albums, I, Monarch was a huge step up in […]

Shirt by Affliction Do you ever love a band, but hate its fans? If so, is there self-hate involved, since you’re a fan also? Recently I was walking and passed by fans exiting a Lamb of God show: dozens of young men with Affliction t-shirts and no necks. I shuddered and thought, “Man, I’m glad […]