Perfection followed by something lukewarm.
Tag: Portland
Album Review | Drouth | Excerpts from a Dread Liturgy
A vortex, chaotic yet tinged with longing.
Album Review | Bell Witch and Aerial Ruin | Stygian Bough Volume I
Seeping atmosphere. A dirge for an undeserved death.
#170 | Album Review | Coffin Apartment – Coffin Apartment
Entombed in dereliction.
#159 | Track Reviews | Knock Over City, ZOMBIESHARK!, Firelink, Bell Witch & Aerial Ruin, Gaytheist & Intercourse, and Defeated Sanity
Succinct reviews of some fresh singles, EPs, and splits: cybergrind, funeral doom, noise rock, brutal death metal, and a sundry of other tones.
#129 | Album Reviews | ESOCTRILIHUM, Despondent Moon, Mizmor, Witch Vomit
Dissections of sounds arcane and apoplectic.
#110 | Album Reviews | Misþyrming, Ossuary, Lord Dying, Firelink
Our latest album review variety episode where we dissect some frigid black metal, murky death-doom, progressive sludge, and Dark Souls-inspired black metal.
Album Review | IDLE HANDS | Mana
When I first watched a video of Idle Hands that was recommended me on Youtube my first impressions were average. The video looked pretty cheesy
Ep. 33: A Conversation with Erik Moggridge of Aerial Ruin (Ethereal Dark Folk from Portland)
Erik of Aerial Ruin discusses performing Mirror Reaper with Bell Witch in its entirety and probes the compositions and themes of his latest album, Nameless Sun.
Voices From Corners Unknown, Ep. 12 (Pissblood, Hemelbestormer, Intercourse)
An album review podcast of the latest records from Pissblood (Self-Titled), Hemelbestormer (A Ring of Blue Light), and Intercourse (Everything is Pornography When You’ve Got an Imagination).
Ep. 12: A Conversation with Year of the Coyote (Concrete Cudgeling of Metallic Hardcore and Relentless Sludge)
The sludgy metallic hardcore three-piece, Year Of The Coyote, discuss their first LP, Siege, the origins of the band, and a good deal more.