Death metal history carries weight, and few names carry more of it than Grave’s earliest material. So when a new project surfaces under the name Hating Life, expectations are immediately set: HM-2 filth, down-tuned riffs, and a deep reverence for the genre’s late ’80s and… Read More »Mini-Album Premiere: Hating Life – Revenge From Beyond
Baltimore-based street metal crüe Total Maniac are back and sleazier than ever on their new album, Love Overdrive. Written and styled like they came straight off the streets of ’80s California, songs like “Early Grave,” which you can stream below, are driven by thrashy guitars… Read More »Track Premiere: Total Maniac – “Early Grave”
Berlin-based hardcore punks Zanjeer take aim at the systems reinforcing oppression in nations around the world on their new album, Seher-e-Maqhoor (English: “Dawn of the Oppressed”). Musically, it’s a concoction of classic hardcore punk, the band citing Ratos de Porão and Raw Power as major influences, with an… Read More »Track Premiere: Zanjeer – ‘F*ck Berlin, Free Falasteen’
In Living Color The Making of Boris’ Pink Wata, inscrutable as the Sphinx, slips imperceptibly into the chair across from me. Upstairs in the commons area of a 1930 house in downtown East Austin, the guitarist sits first, followed by bandmates Atsuo and Takeshi. The… Read More »Boris – Pink
With ALLDAY PROJECT’s huge success last year, I expect we’ll see more co-ed groups debuting in K-pop. Of course, it takes a very long preparation period to train and debut a group, and versions of ChoCo Family (also known as “ChoCo1 X ChoCo2”) have been… Read More »Song Review: ChoCo Family (ChoCo1 X ChoCo2) – Gimme