Tag Sacred Bones
A desolate scene decorates the cover of Uniform’s new album American Standard. In it, a power plant or some kind of processing site is blasting smoke into the air, and the yellow hue of the semi-dark scene suggests heavy pollution…. Continue Reading →
Heavy as a heavy thing – that is the best way to describe Thou from Baton Rouge. They steamrollered into my ears during the cursed pandemic with their magnificent collaboration project “May Our Chambers Be Full”. The question I had at… Continue Reading →
When this dropped…or more accurately seeped through the bricks like mould… I felt like the Paul Spericki character in Grosse Point Blank, slamming the steering wheel in his car and exclaiming to Martin Blank “Fourteen years man! Fourteen Years!!!!” So… Continue Reading →
Boris. A band by necessity I dip in and out of for two reasons: Firstly, they are so prolific I can’t keep up, and secondly because they are so eclectic not everything will float my boat. They are simply one… Continue Reading →
Leaving just three months from the release of an album to put out a follow-up EP would seem too soon under normal circumstances, however, in a period where time has lost all meaning and the future remains uncertain at best… Continue Reading →
Two years ago a collaboration between Emma Ruth Rundle and Thou would have seemed unthinkable; the soft, ethereal darkness of Emma’s gentle chords and clean singing the polar opposite of Thou’s brash, sludge-tinged brutality. However, at Roadburn 2019 this exact… Continue Reading →
There is something formidable about a band that’s able to reinvent one of its core attributes and still be completely recognisable. For New York’s industrial punks, Uniform, this reinvention manifests itself in their percussion; previous albums have relied on a… Continue Reading →
2019 has been a truly exceptional year for the noise genre, with new releases from Merzbow, Lingua Ignota, Uniform and The Body and now Pharmakon’s fourth album, ‘Devour’. Margaret Chardiet’s output via the medium of Pharmakon has an iconic ability… Continue Reading →
Uniform and The Body’s first collaboration ‘Mental Wounds Not Healing’ was founded on a mutual appreciation of each other’s work; ‘Everything That Dies Someday Comes Back’ was written in the wake of high demand for more of the electrifying horror… Continue Reading →