AURICULAR ZOONOTOSIS: March 2021

 (February)

Who Is KIRITSIS? 

find out this summer. 

things are looking/

SCATMOTHER - Vivikta 

"labyrinths of concrete and acid" 

PORTRAYL OF GUILT - We Are Always Alone 

this one took some time to hit me, but when it did it did. i also like that their initials spell out the word "POG". 

MUCOPHAGUS - Demo 1 

the music sounds the way the name looks. 

COSCRADH - Mesradh Machae 

off to a good start 

HALLOWED BUTCHERY - Deathsongs from the Hymnal of the Church of the Final Pilgrimage 

if Primitive Man wrote an album for the angry hippie simp from Mandy.

PERTURBATOR - Lustful Sacraments 

still manages to hold my attention where most other projects in this genre have begun to leave me cold. 

SLEEPWALKER - Noc Na Krayu Sveta 

still filling that Birushannah shaped hole in my heart. 

HALLUCINATION REALIZED - Agency Denied

keeps getting better. 

RUDIMENTARY PENI - Great War 

shadow out of time 

CARCINOMA - Labascation 

a bit like Succumb maybe? 

STRUGGLING HARSH IMMORTALS - 4 Death 

i know all the crate-boring nerdos lunged at the Zouo reissue, but i gotta say i get more out of this post-Zouo project. 

LANDFILL - Landfill X Developer 

i low-key despise it when bands defer to "Untitled" for track names, but i can't maintain hostilities too long when you coming at me with the something that sounds like a cross between Enemy Soil and Custodian. 

SAIDAN - Jigoku- Spiraling Chasms of the Blackest Hell 

tasteful blends. 

OLD NICK - Curse of the Lock Master / Witch of the Northern Vill 

sounds like Dead Raven Choir rehearsing in an abandoned Toys R Us. dumb as fuck but i like it. 

WORLD PEACE - Come and See 

another new power violence band that remembers the crucial components of "power" and "violence". 

VEGAS - Recovery 

really have come a ways away from their Integrity clone infancy. really should get more attention. 

HIDE - Interior Terror 

"drink dirty water / be defiled" 

UNCONDITIONAL - Suffocating in Black Tar 

new project from the Miscarriage camp. 

 NIGHT WAR - Perversity of War Science 

best d-beat i've heard in a while. 

FANGE - Pantocrator 

when Tommy End shows up in AEW (or maybe even MLW to feud w/ Mil Muertes like in my Lucha Underground fan-fic), Fange should be playing him out to the ring. 

GRISHKA - I 

hope when they crossover into the realm of physical media i'll be able to snag them shits without having to pay crack-sucking Gulch prices. 

SLAUGHTER STRIKE - Winter's Agony 

maybe the most overlooked corner of the Endless Blockade Expanded Universe (isn't a universe always expanding, though?) 

KILLING FROST - The Declaration of W.W. 

no doubt that Lee Altomare (RIP) would be bombing my inbox with this one. if it sounded like Celtic Frost or Motorhead or Bolt Thrower or Poison Idea or Celtic Idea or Motorthrower or Poison Frost or Bolt Head or Celtic Motor or Poison Bolt or Bolt Motor or Headthrower or Frost Thrower or Celtic Head or Poison Motor or Ideahead or Poison Thrower or Motoridea or Frost Motor or Bolt Frost or Frost Idea or Idea Bolt or Sheer Terror, Lee was tossing it my way. 

NO ESAPE - Selective Punches: A Collection of Ballads and Battle Hymns 

yooooo where in the crap did this come from? Tim Singer's pre-Deadguy band reactivated. 

ALAN VEGA - Mutator 

when i die, i hope a mean-hot biker dom hate-pantomimes to my shit. 

BLACK MIDI - Cavalcade

like if Primus was way more murdery. 

ASSHOLEGRINDMOTHER ! - But The Sun Is Too Dazzling 

kaaabaaaaaahhh

HARSH - Implants 

in the bowels of France 

FLUIDS - Not Dark Yet 

very curious to see where this one goes 

INVERTED TOWER - Boarded Up 

we do and don't deserve better. 

AURICULAR ZOONOTOSIS: February 2021

 (January)

well we're two-deep into the new year and still nothing isn't terrible. my area got a hobo corpse-load of snow, fuck-you-money oldheads are physically incapable of sealing shut their prick-picklers about cAnCeL cUlTuRe, and in general we're all marinating in the scumhole moisture on the underside of the bedrock. 

but hey whatever, here's my favorite teases of the month (non-Clips4Sale division)

SANCTIONED - Annexation 

the Aussies have it again. 

HALLUCINATION - s/t

like Convictions and Vegas battle-scoring an Elias Merhige film. 

GAS CHAMBER / BLACK IRON PRISON - Public Humiliation II

definitely will be spending a lot of time with this one. 

 EARLY WAR - Cages

hi, Richard. 

DEATHNOISEFREQUENCY - Horrid Dirge  

a gradually decompressing silo of stratified sewer mold eventually reaches the dimensions of a bursting omni-colored sun. 

DERAILMENT - album preview 

if i ever get my music shit together again, the next band is ripping this shit off hard. 

THUG - discography 

the Derailment stuff reminded me that my jive-ass never checked out THUG before. 

ALTARAGE - Succumb 

i can't quit this style of DM. 

ORYX - Lamenting a Dead World

ahhh those high-vocals get me every time. 

BLUEST SKIES - Crushing Intervals  

most of the bands in the powerviolence genre tend to forget two crucial ingredients: 

1. Power

2. Violence. 

not this crew. 

 ROAD PIG - Demo 

TFW bands who aren't Integrity worship sneak Integrity parts into their piece. 

EAT - flare

looming predator moments in a hailstorm of black soot.

SINISTER WAND - Never Ending Night 

on that High Command / Devil Master trip. 

FEED THEM DEATH - Negative 

"but who is being entertained?"

CHAIN GANG GRAVE - Backwards Reaction

really glad to see one of my favorite NY bands is still kicking it. really looking forward to the rest of this one. 

ENSEMBLE SACRES GARCONS - Demonization: These Worldly Powers 

"It Seems So Foolish - These Sparse Statements of Desolation" 

SOCIOCLAST - s/t

on that Assuck, Avulsion trip (don't tag me, grindbro)

ARANA - Escondides Demo 

rolling through a wind tunnel beneath a tough-love camp in a steel garbage pail. 

UMORAL - Der Sola Aldri Skinner 

fuck the triggering. fuck the triggered. only pure sleaze from now on. 

GARUDA - Immemorial  

i remember Lee snagging me a copy of the first GARUDA album "Cold Wired Sentiment" about 15 years ago.  since then, Garuda has always found its way onto my list of favorite "one-and-done" bands. well i guess i can knock them off that list, cause late last year they dropped their follow-up release. much like this blog, doesn't seem like anyone can be bothered to check it out.