AURICULAR ZOONOTOSIS: August 2021

 (July)

i have a new short piece appearing in the inaugural issue of the AGON Journal. pick up a copy.  

Hot Garbage Summer is going out the way it came in. but look music

BLOODMOUTH - Unmanned 

more Australia 

BOWEL RUPTURE / PVNISHER - split

New Zealand, too

BRAT - Bought the Farm

my own personal oversaturation 

FEEDBACK RECYCLING - All Studio Recordings 

too smart for dumb people, too dumb for smart people. 

GRAVESEND - Methods of Human Disposal 

the band NY does and doesn't deserve. new regional favorite. 

HEADSHRINKER - Callous Indifference 

really like the production on this one. 

IDEATION - Blunt Instrument Demo 

attack youth attack

KANDARIVAS - Blood Surgical Death 

Sepultura meets Swarrrm? Endon vs. Cut Hands? utterly insane utter insanity. 

MATSUNAGA WAS RIGHT - Kings of the Deathmatch 

gotta thank all the whiny grind nerds who wished on a monkey's paw for Pig Destroyer to sound like 20 years ago, only to have all the songs about pro-wrestling. Nick Fuckin' Gage. 

MELTING ROT - Blood Delusions 

sounds the way i feel. 

MOONSCAPE - Monolith 

only Japanese bands are allowed to have "rock" riffs. 

NUOVO TESTAMENTO - New Earth 

be instantly transported to an early evening in 1991 when you snuck a peak at the Playboy channel while scoping the new X-Men toys in the JC Penny Christmas Catalog. oh wait just me? 

PORTRAYAL OF GUILT / CHAT PILE - split

two of my favorite bands going right now. still have some time to pick up this one. 

SEVEN HEADED SERPENT - Upheaval 

Intestinal Disgorge personnel on the blacknoisecore trip. 

SILENTIST - House on the Hill EP

like if the Paper Chase got really into Swans and grindcore. got thank Stopgap City for pointing me in the direction of this auditory extreme haunt. 

 STAPLECUNT - Puke Ecstasy 

Scatmother peoples having a go at Pornogrind. 

SUCCUMB - XXI 

awesome so far. can't wait to hear the rest. another band i wouldn't mind ripping off sooner than later. 

SUNK HEAVEN - the Fvckhearted Living 

the album you wish Wolf Eyes would've done after their Sub Pop shot. 

SUPINE - No Altar for the Company Man 

a scarier, nastier take on the Portrayal of Guilt style. here for it. 

XIAO - Xiao-Pain

if Salome lived on to become a noise rock band. 

AURICULAR ZOONOTOSIS: July 2021

 (June)

hey so this whole "HoT ______ sUmMeR" has been a real explosive diarrhea slip 'n slide, eh? 

buy a book about it

UNDERNEATH THE DEADLIGHT - Erestu

might skip the write-ups. depression has been dipping in and out all cunting month, and it just dipped in. yippee.

REPTYLA - Parasyte

literally the exact same shit as above. 

DISMEMBERED FETUS - discography 

the sound in my head when i read everyone's terrible hot takes about Slipknot or ZZ Top or ZZknot or Sliptop or whatever other band they haven't thought about since the fucking 90s lost a member to the inevitable this week. if only y'all cared that much about the people who are ACTUALLY a part of your life. 

CRANKBAIT - Anatomy of Self Abuse

reanimate the caul of a rape-incubated stillbirth. 

DESIRE ft. ETHER - Haenim

grazing knife handles in the middle of the night.

DISEMPERIUM - Malefic Obliteration 

FFO Knelt Rote, Vermin Womb 

MISRULE - Forced to Suffer  

burly

REPLICANT - Malignant Reality 

really good so far, but maaaaaaaan i am reeeeeeeeealy starting to get fed up with how much scrolling down i have to do on these bandcamp pages just to get to the tracklist. 

G.A.Z.E. - Sielun Tuli

damn those vocals are rabid

CHARNEL GROUNDS - Molecular Entropy Examined in the Bowels of the Great One 

on that Arti B tip. 

KHOST / DEEP CROSS - split 

there are times when i think Khost might be the heaviest band in the world. 

VIXEN MAW - Hallelujah, Anxiety! 

new favorite NY band. shit's everything. 

MOURNING NOISE - discography 

you think they like the Misfits or what/

DEATH'S HEAD QUARTET - s/t

if like the parts of Anal Cunt that are without lyrics/titles, well this is that but with some saxamaphone. 

MIDWIFE - Lumoil 

feels like 

SHIVERBOARD - The Squirms

couple them up with Vixen Maw. 

MORGUE TAR / SHOTGUN COCK - Partners in Necrophilia

while you're at it, do a deep dive into Morgue Tar before they sign to Century Media and children on social media call you names for liking them. 

PUPIL SLICER - Mirrors

keep coming back to this one. 

GONER - Pain God 

never say never

DET KATTERSKA FORBOUND - Lidverken Del I: Att i Vadeld Forgas 

collaboration between Nordvargr and Trepeneringsritualen. sounds like god beast unfolding out of earth core smolder. 

WADGE - Assembled Armaments & Exotic Lore 

wow that's a lot. 

ISCHEMIC NECROSIS - Autolysis 

goooooooore

ANTRO - Demo 

more insane vocals 

UT/EX - s/t 

solid melodic 

DRITTMASKIN - Svartponk 

more please 

AURICULAR ZOONOTOSIS: June 2021

 (May)

(btw PLEASE by which i mean NOW buy a copy of my new book TERSE )

"hErE i cOmE SuMmEr wHoooOOoOoOoOoOoO."

sejus, shut the fuck up already with that shit. you know the minute the temp goes above 79 degrees you marys are clutching your throat and gasping for AC like Pam when she found the skeleton closest in Texas Chainsaw Massacre. stop trying to convince us that this "post-Covid" summer is going to be like if Dua Lipa signed to Deeper.com. i get it; 15 months (in my case; and. then. some.) of no physical contact has let our brains become deranged by excessive masturbatory porn consumption (hey 'Rona; my shits was like that before you sharted in the daiquiri blender), but get real aighty. 

mulesick:

 HALLUCINATION REALIZED / REDUNDANT PROTOPLASM - split

one of them "upper tier" underground labels really needs to be snatching up HR aighty. 

TAKE THAT VILE FIEND - Surplus Flesh

like a bidet catapult full of jellied sulfur. 

KING WOMAN - Celestial Blues 

very good so far. 

THE DRIN - Engines Sing for the Pale Moon

raw goth. 

MORDANT ARROW - Shared Blood

rhythmic menace. 

CODE - Flyblown Prince 

progressive metal that really pushes the more murdery impulses other practitioners of this genre tend to sidestep. 

CLIBBUS - Horsesatelite 

FFO Flying Luttenbachers, Arab on Radar, Skin Graft Records stuff.

DISPOSAL UNIT - De/com/press 

core erosion. 

DEATHMONGER - Hounds of the Mother 

dark hardcore seems to be turning a corner. 

LIAR, FLOWER - Geiger Counter 

KatieJane Garside's voice still brings the fear boners. 

2W - s/t

the Godflesh worship continues to evolve and explore terrains Broadrick couldn't even dream of. 

CHOIR BOY - Gathering Swans

i'll probably never be in a band again, but this is definitely something i would've brought along on the van rides to be irritating. i genuinely like a lot of this kind of stuff... but it also fun to make metal nerds squirm. 

 LAW OF POWER - s/t

i'm no where near tough enough to listen to this, but i'm still gunna.

DRIDGE - Curing 

if you know me at all, you'll know that there is nothing about this that i don't find good. absolutely giving this the highest recommendation possible. will no doubt make my top ten for the year.  

NAK'AY - Closed Doors / Open Veins 

FFO Internal Rot, Caustic Wound

SOPHROSYNE - Ecclesiastes 

liquid diamonds. 

STABBING - Demo 2021

cause sometimes you just fucking need it. 

SWARRRM - I Saw A Dream -- I Dreamed... - 

really didn't like the last few releases, but this one's hitting me just right. 

CRAKK YONDER - Dead Fools Scatter The Highway Bleeding 

Reveal! personnel doing weirdo electronic stuff. 

 ERDVE - Savgalia 

it's almost getting to the point that when a new metalcore band emerges i no longer have to add the word "good" before "metalcore". .... almost.... 

ARMS & ARMOR - Into this Wide Unknown 

serial cutter slow jams. 

OPTION PARALYIS - I. Continuum 

more than solid tech-core, but those snarling vocals really seal this one for me. 

LINGUA IGNOTA - Sinner Get Ready

we'll see.

MULE SKINNER - Untitled EP

FFO Soilent Green. 

ANTHESIS / BOTFLY / CELLPRESS / GREBER - 4-way split

let the Cattlepress saturation begin 

 GETTING THE FEAR - Death Is Bigger 1984-85

fuck the Cult. 

NON SERVIAM - Le Coeur Bat

in the bowels of France.

PERVERT OF ABILITY - Gorecult Revolution

more arsenal for debates with Death Metal weenies about whether or not my kind of vocals fit with their kind of music. 

MELISSA - s/t

FFO Sire

ZEALOT R.I.P. - s/t

members of Combatwoundedveteran, Triac, and other continuing in similar veins. new work sounds promising. 

EROS ROT - Demo 2020

really like the production / song writing on this one. hard as fuck. 

BRAT - Chain Pain

like where this is going.