Tag Crust
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 →
Wipe yourself down. Strap yourself in. I hope you have been to the bog coz Wolfbrigade are back to drag you by the short and curlies through all the dirt and filth 2024 have to offer. They have been kicking… Continue Reading →
I had to have a word with myself whilst reviewing this album. The description of Crust Punk mixed with Sludge Metal in the list sent by the Ave Noctum Big Boss (ANBB) whet my appetite and got me all a… Continue Reading →
Utter filth! It should be banned. This is what Mary Whitehouse was trying to protect us from. She was right. Won’t someone think of the children!???? Don’t worry I have not taken leave of my senses and also, fear not… Continue Reading →
This album is described as a “concoction of melodic death metal and crust punk”, with the band’s style being likened to Black Sabbath, Entombed, Neurosis and High on Fire. This is the debut album from the no-frills, “three piece riff… Continue Reading →
An exciting debut record that appears to have come from nowhere. The last time I had something like this to review was Hulder’s debut and that ended up being my album of the year! Further in Evil could well end up hitting… Continue Reading →
With a name like Dismal Aura one may well anticipate a band playing atmospheric doom or DSBM but that’s not exactly what we get here. This trio from Ottawa are a politicised musical weapon tackling subject matter such as colonialism,… Continue Reading →
Rana make the sort of glorious racket that slaps you in the face with a velvet gloved hand then caresses you sensually after the blow has fallen. The band ran the gamut of many subgenres of extreme music and take the best… Continue Reading →
Last time I checked, the collapse of Mother Earth was still in progress. The German crust punk/post-black metal band Downfall of Gaia, named after that very same process, can therefore claim undiminished relevance despite being active for 15 years. Silhouettes… Continue Reading →
The Collins dictionary defines the Czech word ‘Litost’ as ‘a state of agony and torment created by the sudden sight of one’s own misery’……Cheerful stuff indeed, but actually it is the perfect moniker for this Spanish outfit who create a… Continue Reading →
A deeply pessimistic self-titled debut album from Polish Black Metal/Crust quartet Gololedz, (Black Ice) released towards the end of last year on CD by D.I.Y. Koło Records, and given an extra lease of life now via Iron Fist Productions. Gololedz… Continue Reading →
Once again German band Depravation and German label Lifeforce Records have combined to spew out another full-length release full of Black/Death Metal violence and intensity with a touch of crustiness for good measure. ‘IV: Letvm’ is the band’s third album… Continue Reading →