That’s the thing they don’t tell you about opiate addiction. People are in pain because unless you went to college, the only way you’ll earn a decent living is by breaking your body or risking your life — plumbers, electricians, steamfitters, welders, mechanics, cable guys, linemen, fishermen, garbagemen, the options are endless.
My favorite hip hop track of 2018
Left: Album art to Can’s 1969 debut album Monster Movie. Right: A Jack Kirby panel from The Mighty Thor #134, November 1966.
Annihilated leaves you in precisely the state that the title implies. Mostly foregoing any bells and whistles, you can expect a relentless onslaught of noisy guitars, furiously fluctuating beats, and esophageal scouring vocals. This is sure to go down as one of the heaviest mathcore/hardcore albums of the year. It’s fast, deviously destructive, and dangerously addictive.
Source: Metal Trenches review
Always had a soft spot for Scottish hardcore but i wasn’t expecting to be blown away by this album from Sectioned. Also available for streaming & buying on Bandcamp. Highly recommended if you like Botch, Converge and the like.
punks not dead
diurnal, France c. 1400
Avignon, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 103, fol. 45r
Sharing a member with Canadian grind collective Fuck the Facts, Ontario bass-drums duo Greber spin off from that band’s self-professed “bastardized grindcore” with a doom-grind sound built around low-slinging grooves and heavy-swinging drums.
Source & streaming on Bandcamp.
Staying in Harm’s Way
One of our favorite avante-garde labels and home to Church of Ra, Consouling Sounds, is set to release the fantastical new record from Jozef van Wissem entitled Nobody Living Can Ever Make Me Turn Back. He based the record around the stunning painting by Belgian artist Cindy Wright that graces its cover. Says Wissem, the album is “informed by renaissance visual art, and serves as a parallel to updated classical lute pieces,” with each song title making reference to the painting. Not only am I completely enamored of the artwork that inspired this album, but the music itself is the perfect balance of confrontation and meditation and has me completely captivated. I recently suffered a devastating loss, and this music feels like it is reading the pain and gratitude etched on my soul. You can pre-order Nobody Living Can Ever Make Me Turn Back from Counsouling Sounds right here.
Source: the excellent CVLT NATION’S TOP TEN AVANT GARDE RELEASES OF 2017
You survived 2017, this is your reward.
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A young black rain frog [Breviceps fuscus] expressing an emotion we haven’t invented yet. This species can only be found in the Cape Fold Mountains of South Africa, and although it is not listed as threatened it does not appear to do well in areas where its range overlaps with human expansion. Image by Biodiversityfocused.co.za.
