Exuent Albumnes 2020 part 1

"it's not getting worse; it's getting filmed."

songs:

AZUSA - Loop of Yesterdays 

captures the schizo-panoramic vibe of the more ruthlessly deranged members of the "Progressive Metal" fraternity (Fear of God, Mind Over Four, Anacrusis, Thought Industry)

CAUSTIC WOUND - Death Posture 

unrelentingly inhospitable funeral-riot grindcore. twee smart-ass memesters need not apply.

CHEPANG - Chatta 

somewhere between Johou era Discordance Axis and Torture Garden era Naked City.

COUCH SLUT - Take a Chance on Rock and Roll 

this music is the true face of New York. "what do you mean by that? elaborate. explain." no.

FED ASH - Diurnal Traumas 

i feel good about this. be better than we were.

MISCARRIAGE - FUCKING DISGUSTING 

being on the receiving end of a thumbtack colonoscopy while using a mud-shark as a fleshlight.

POPPY - I Disagree 

i'm going to lose a lot of you on this one, but fuck it; a pretty little weirdo in Jushin Thunder Liger shoulder pads who out-Pattons Mike Patton and plays Io Shari out to the ring will never not find occupancy in my headspace.

SCATMOTHER - Sadotantra 

i'm pretty much in "whatever" mode about the PE genre at this current stage, but something about this project just checks all my boxes. i'd hesitate to use the term "nostalgia", but it feels closer to the first wave of American PE (Deathpile, Slogun, Bloodyminded) and insanely vicious Italian projects than whatever is being sperged out by iron-deficient hipsters.

TEETH ENGRAVED WITH THE NAMES OF THE DEAD - It Will Be Dark Soon 

it might be uncouth of me to mention this release, as i'm thanked on it and i've been in regular friendly contact with MZ for quite a few years... but also no one cares and/or reads blogs anymore, so whatever; i'd be all about this shit regardless. cold, rhythmic, picturesque, menacing... everything you could want out of an industrial record.

 TITHE - Penance 

early contender for my top metal album of the year. impeccable all around. a must for those of us who remain dying of thirst for more groups in the gooey vein of Cattlepress, Succumb, Sepulcher, Reveal.

honorable mentions

AFTERBIRTH - Four Dimensional Flesh, BESTIAL PIGLORD - Cosmicism and Neuselore , BLACK CURSE - Endless Wound,  CRYPTUAL - The Tombs of Misery,  ENCOSTO - s/t , EYE FLYS - Tub of Lard , FORM HUNTER - s/t,  FOTOCRIME - South of Heaven,  GNAW - Barking Orders,  GNAWED - Subterranean Rites, HAAPOJA - Mullan Keskelta , KHOST - Buried Steel, , MANY BLESSINGS - Emanation Body , NYREDOLK - Indebrændt, OIL SPILL - Ash Lands , oVo - Miasma, RASPBERRY BULBS - Before the Age of Nothing, REEKING AURA - Beneath the Canopy of Compost, RIKI - S/T, ROTTEN MONARCH - Winds Over Ash,  THIN - Dawn,  T.O.M.B. - Thin the Veil , ULCERATE - Stare Into Death And Be Still,  VILE HORRENDOUS AERIAL BOMBARDMENT - Sovereignty in Rubble  , WAKE - Devouring Ruin

Exeunt Albumnes 2019 part 2

part 1

if you made it through this swamp water icicle urethral sounding of a year without adding "trepanation with a bayonet strap-on" to your daily routine... you think you're better than me?

here's what you might have missed while you were caving into to social media peer pressure by doing the whole check-out-my-ironic-wacky-guy-persona-album-challenge thing;

BLOODYMINDED - s/t

haven't lost a step. 

CUT TO FIT - Hopesick

taking it back to blind purchases. truly amazed this still hasn't popped up on someone's TouYube channel. gunky grindcore with some evil brains. FFO Cadaver In Drag, Mindflair, Garuda, Grossty.

DEVIL MASTER - Satan Spits on the Children of Light 

emerging from the the wreck pile cross-section of Christian Death and G.I.S.M. if you hate on this you're only trolling yourself. 

.GIF FROM GOD - approximation_of_a_human 

FFO anything Willowtip released from 1999 - 2004... which still sounds like it's from the future. time doesn't move... it deepens. 

GYNA BOOTLEG / LVMMVX - Wretched

more than above adequate sounds for underscoring the glacial-paced performance of genitalia-concentrated leng tch'e upon tiresomely rape-fixated noise bros. 

LINGUA IGNOTA - Caligula 

synesthetic god-terror from the cruelty-molded beauty of rupturing hermeticism. if you hate this we can't know each other. 

MEATWOUND - Culero 

repeat offenders. between the murdery cynicism of Clockcleaner and the abattoir vomit trough of Autopsy emerges this weaponized excreta pile. 

OTOBOKE BEAVER - Itekoma Hits

like feeling good about getting kicked really hard in the nuts over and over while a courtroom full of attractive muckbangers point and laugh and your stupid & useless swollen organ. 

RAINBOW GRAVE - No You 

basement-aged spite in a hypno-swirl of mid-tempo hardcore drag. a must for those who fuck with Brainbombs, Upsidedown Cross, Killslug, Total Abuse, etc. 

SKULLSHITTER / BLEEDING OUT - split LP 

one of the 6 NY bands that doesn't bore me into a rage coma teaming up with yet another winner from the always dependable Endless Blockade extended universe. 

HONORABLE MENTIONS 

ATTICA - Resurrected, BESTIAL MOUTHS - Inshroudss, BLACK CURSE - Endless Wound, BURIER - s/t, HAVE A NICE LIFE - Sea of Worry, HIDE - Hell is Here, HIMUKALT - Sex Worker,, LORD MANTIS - Universal Death Church, OPIUM LORD - Vore, PYLAR - Horror Cosmyco, RIPPER - Sensory Stagnation,  SANCTION - Broken in Refraction, SUTCLIFFE JUGEND - Relentless, SWANS - Leaving Meaning, VIOLENT PARTY - Signals from Outer Space, 

The Heavy Hole Podcast: In The Hole w/Nick Cacioppo (The Communion, Crisis Actor, and Tunnel Nun)

About this Episode

Will and Tom invite Nick Cacioppo of The Communion, Crisis Actor, and Tunnel Nun to the studio for a truly thought provoking conversation.

Music Featured - 
The Communion - Split w/ Bastard Noise
The Communion - Unreleased Tracks
The Communion - Great Violence and Hidden Depths
The Communion - Demos 2004 - 2006
The Communion - Split w/ The Kill
The Communion - A Desired Level of Unease
The Communion - 2010 Sampler
Buttress - Brutus
Malignant Altar - Retribution of Jealous Gods
Abyssal - A Beacon in the Husk 
Deiphago - I, The Devil
Goatwhore - A Haunting Curse
Neglect - Four Years of Hate
Koreisch - This Decaying Schizophrenic Christ Complex

Exeunt Albumnes 2019 part 1

[psst: i learned A. LOT. about what kind of people i once allowed to vape my cyber-air by posting this meme. but i digress]

VIAGRA BOYS - Street Worms

hits the scabrous g-spot between Grinderman and Brainbombs

TEN THOUSAND MILES OF ARTERIES - Survival Bloom 

power electronics that can almost pass for doom metal.

TRIUMVIR FOUL - Urine of Abomination

metal you can smell.

PISSGRAVE - Posthumous Humiliation 

a touch "cleaner" than their previous Suicide Euphoria, but also more interesting.

PSUDOKU / PARLAMENTARISK SODOMI - Report from the 10th Dimension / Demo 2018

towards the end of Communion's existence, we couldn't meet eyeball-to-eyeball about much of anything except the fact that no other bands need to exist except for those within the Psudoku extended universe.

MISCARRIAGE - Imminent Horror 

hands down my favorite new personal discovery of 2019 is the victoriously vile Miscarriage. this release picks up on sludgy climax of their otherwise grind record Homicidal Mania Trilogy, 

HELMS ALEE - Noctiluca 

Neurosis meets the Breeders.

DEIPHAGO - I, The Devil 

my favorite metal release of the year so far. after 30 years they just keep improving, expanding their imaginations and widening the scope of their diseased reality.

BOY HARSHER - Careful 

only good thing to come out of getting ghosted on FetLife was receiving this recommend before the disappearing act was pulled.

BEATEN TO DEATH - Agronomicon 

taps into the malicious smart ass spirit of early 00s post DEP mathcore before it got hijacked by terminally "wacky" Nicktoon enthusiasts like iwrestledabearonce and "crabcore" jerkoffs.

other things:

BETHLEHEM - Lebe Dich Leer, DEAD TO A DYING WORLD - Elegy, EMPTIED TORSO - demo, GETTING STABBED - Atmosphere of Decay, INCINERATED / HALLUCINATION REALIZED -split, LANDFILL vs. FED ASH - Closure Does Not Exist, LITTLE SONGS OF THE MUTILATED - Delicious! And home cooked too​!​!​! Hear the incalculable little songs of the mutilated, MALIGNANT ALTAR- Retribution of Jealous Gods,  M83 - Knife + Heart soundtrack, MYSTIFIER - Protogoni Mavri Magiki Dynasteia, NEEDLE - s/t,  PROGRESS OF INHUMANITY - Rotating Misery, SLEEPWALKER - First Uterance,  SPIRIT ADRIFT - Divided By Darkness,  -tetsvxshiima- - Operation Retcon,

Exeunt Albumnes 2018 part 2

part 1

you might've missed this during the shitposting arms race, where bitchy hot takes, sassy memes, and weaponized snark have battered numb true creative expression, leaving it to twitch and convulse in cratered ruins, but actual music was released this year. here's some of the auditory balm that soothed the nerves your continued elitist posturing has crinkled and inflamed:

CITY HUNTER - Deep Blood 

 a tape-hiss of hazily mined stalker film memory.

ENTARTUN - s/t 

scabrously fetishistic power electronics conjointly rendered by Scatmother and Yasuhito Fujinami.

HIMUKALT - Knife Through The Spine 

 a scrapyard universe beams its alarm.

KNIFE CULT - 10 Ways To Die 

Watchmaker lowered into a swamp of Fistula.

MY MIND'S MINE - Passengers of the Void 

their grind's fine durrrrrr

NOISEAR / FLAGITIOUS IDIOSYNCRASY IN THE DILAPIDATION - split 

2 long time favorites link up to form this screaming chaos.

REPUSLIC - Flower of Carnage 

gnarly deathgrind in the vein of Blood, Undergang, and other gut munching barbarioids who have no patience for your "profound lore".

SEPULCHER - Panoptic Horror 

simultaneously familiar and alien, Sepulcher hail from an alternate timeline where Thrash Metal never went commercial in the 90s and instead decided to go full unhinged serial killer. Andreas Fosse Salbu delivers the best metal vocal performance of the year.

SU19B - Neutralize 

 glacially raking the bowels of a Leviathan across jagged burning cobblestones of a Hell no mythology could ever aptly capture.

TRANSIENT/BASTARD NOISE - Sources of Human Satisfaction 

full disclosure; i have played with/toured with/been part of releases with both these acts, but even if i hadn't, this would be everything to me; the perfect blend of sharp grind and singular electronics. well done, friends.

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

AKITSA - Credo, AUTHOR AND PUNISHER - Beastland, BUFIHIMAT - I, BURMESE - Privileged, ENDON - Boy Meets Girl, EVOKEN - Hypnagogia, FED ASH, Grief as a Prison, GOUGE AWAY - Burnt Sugar, HALLUCINATION REALIZED - Made Hostage To Your Psyche, MAYUKO HINO - Lunisolar, IMPERIAL TRIUMPHANT - Vile Luxury, JESUS PIECE - Only Self, MALTHUSIAN - Across Deaths, MULE SKINNER - Air Strike, NAGAINA - Dissenter, NOISE TRAIL IMMERSION - Symbology of Shelter, SELF DEFENSE FAMILY - Have You Considered Punk Music, SUMAC - Love In Shadow, UNIFORM - The Long Walk, VISCERA/// - City of Dope and Violence

Exeunt Albumnes 2018 part 1

so far this year has been little more than time spent on maintaining resentments both past and current, mining their spite for writing and grind albums that, with every passing day, seem less and less likely to exist outside the broken brains of my overreaching imagination. in between all that, i managed to pile on more ephemera for the archives that will either bury me or be buried by me. i figured i should start putting together the lists now so i'll have less to remember at the proper year's end. on with the shiv:

ABJECTION RITUAL - Soul of Ruin, Body of Filth 

AR swaps out there deranged industrial horror for equally deranged sludge metal that further breathes anti-life into their private universe.

FFO: Lord Mantis

BLESSED BLOOD VULVA & GUILTY C - The Third Slaughter 

pure as fuckmurder.

FFO Jesus of Nazareth.

CAUSTIC WOUND - Grinding Terror 

adjectives are futile. it's fucking grindcore, dummy.

FFO: anything that isn't Nails.

HIDE - Castration Anxiety 

tucked away in one of the more neglected compartments of my mind is the desire to be a death-rock DJ, but one that realizes that there's music beyond the fading 1988-98 scope they depend upon. this release would no doubt be a cornerstone in my DJ set.

FFO: Youth Code

KNELT ROTE - Alterity 

not really sure why i never checked this band out before, as they are no doubt right up my alley; that schizophrenic mid-point between spiteful grindcore savagery and morose black metal experimentation.

FFO: making your favorite French Black Metal album go kissy kissy with your favorite Australian Grindcore album.

SECT PIG - Crooked Backs 

like going through a surgical procedure to become a mutant pig.

FFO: sleep paralysis panic breaths

SLEEPWALKER - Ichi-go Ichi-e

melodious nightmare metal.

FFO: Endon, Ehnahre, Maudlin of the Well

SOFT KILL - Savior 

touch more aggressive than the previous releases.

FFO: Fields of the Nephilim, the Church, Alvvays, Grave Babies

STARKWEATHER/CONCEALMENT - split 

the few that know me have more than likely grown malignant in their irritance with regards to my unending fascination and admiration for the brand of ugly progressive metal put forth by Starkweather, so i'll ease up on the praise and say something a little different; i know Starkweather has been sitting on the track for a long time (their last one with Todd Forkin on guitar, who left the band in 2013). it's tough to explain the feeling to those who haven't experienced it; the frustration of working hard on a releases, doing your best to be prompt in the studio so as not to run up a bill, getting it mastered until it sounds appropriate enough for semi-public consumption, only to have it run through a gauntlet of delays. Communion experienced it on a number of occasions. when it finally sees the light of day after what can be sometimes years of setbacks, the feeling is one of anti-climatic relief; everyone and everything having moved beyond the wait that kept you tethered to an abandoned ship. periodicals take one look at the date which the tracks were recorded, dub it "too old", and go back to hyping up the latest bilious sparkle core from the likes of Deafheaven or whatever. i've been writing for almost 1/2 the length of Starkweather's side. time to speed it up with...

WAKE - Misery Rites

played with these guys a few years back at the Acheron, where they knocked me on my ass with their brand of thoughtfully vicious grind. happy to see they kept at it and were able to attract enough attention to get the kind of exposure they deserve. sometimes the good guys win.

FFO: Vermin Womb, Noisear, Mother Brain 

see also:
AEVITERNE - Sireless, ANNA VON HAUSSWOLFF - Dead Magic, BUNUEL - The Easy Way Out, BLOOMING CARRIONS - Necrosis Twilight, BUSHPIG SCAT BUTCHER - The Art of Gore, GENOCIDE PACT - Order of Torment, HARM'S WAY - Posthuman, JENNY HVAL - the Long Sleep, MANY BLESSINGS - Ripe Earth, MOTHER BRAIN - Demo 2018, OF FEATHER AND BONE - Bestial Hymns of Perversion,  OKSENNUS - Kolme Toista,  OUR PLACE OF WORSHIP IS SILENCE - With Inexorable Suffering, PORTAL - Ion, RAWHEAD - Spineless Pigs, RITES OF THY DEGRINGOLADE - The Blade Philosophical, SEPTIC ROT - Cult of Grief, SHE SPREAD SORROW - Midori, SLUGDGE - Esoteric Malacology, SUICIDEFORCE - Demo 2018,