Tag 20 Buck Spin
Hailing from Chicago, Illinois Immortal Bird have spent the past 11 years combining black metal, crust punk and some sludgy genres to create a somewhat unique blend of metal and adjacent sounds to express their outspoken shtick. Having discovered them… Continue Reading →
New school old school death metal. Yes sir/madam this is the kinda stuff that has put the ocean under my motion in recent years. Whether it be Sanguissuggabog or 200 Stab Wounds I am down with the dirty riffs and… Continue Reading →
Let me be honest here, when I received the list of albums available for review from He Who Must Be Obeyed (Pete) I was drawn to Atrae Bilis by the label who put this out rather than any description of… Continue Reading →
NB: contains descriptions likely to cause offence. Keep repeating, “it’s only a review, it’s only a review!” It probably comes as no surprise to anyone that having previously tackled Zombie Flesh Eaters and City Of The Living Dead, Fulci would… Continue Reading →
Quite the mob here with no less than ten members taking up arms around who I assume to be Emperor in chief Bigg o))) aka Brian “Itztlakamayeh” Ortiz, also noticeably of Xibalba. The Californian based crew obviously take inspiration from… Continue Reading →
I say it all the time but it’s worth saying again – 20 Buck Spin has been killing it in the last few years. Quality release after quality release and always full of spite, big riffs and delicious nastiness. It’s… Continue Reading →
A mate was recently moaning that judging by a list on CDs on Ebay they ‘appeared to have run out of metal band names’ and were just using gibberish. He was faintly amused when I said I had some Witch… Continue Reading →
A sophomore full length album from this Los Angeles based death/doom crew. I’m going to confess that I hadn’t heard of the band before, and in fact didn’t particularly “get” this album at first listen. I was listening to it… Continue Reading →
Back in January 2021 a debut album came out that slapped the sweaty corpse paint off my mush. “Godslastering Hymns of a Forlorn Peasantry” impressed me so much it stayed in my head and ears throughout that year to top… Continue Reading →
2024 sees the birth of a new wave of unconventional and pulsating Death Metal courtesy of Montreal’s very own Dissimulator. ‘Lower Form Resistance’ is seven slabs of intricate and complex pulsating Death Metal which is reminiscent of a hybrid which… Continue Reading →
Denizens ov death’s deepest darkest dungeons Vastum are the longest serving acolytes on 20 Buck Spin’s formidable roster. The Bay Area quintet contain within their ranks members of many other acts among them Cardinal Wyrm, Ulthar, Acephalix, Necrot and Human… Continue Reading →
So, I’d heard some Tomb Mold in the past, and in fairness it’s been pretty hard not to have notice them on Metal Twitter (or X, as ham-fizzoged ethics-averse replicant Elon Musk has renamed it), as they’re often spoken about… Continue Reading →