I will not be sorry to see 2011 go. I am, by nature, an optimist, but there are limits on what a man can take and still wake up smiling. And it got pretty close on more than one occasion. To be sure, highlights abounded, but in the win-loss columns of life, I'm leaning towards the latter for this one. I do have high hopes for 2012, however. It's not every day you get to witness the end of the
Time to make the noxious cloud of information smog even thicker! At least I'm telling you about awesome music you should be listening to, instead of giving you false empowerment through hackneyed optimistic sayings or trying to co-opt you into a political movement by saying you are JUST LIKE EVERYONE ELSE. Or worse yet, using the internet to complain about how metal was better back in the 80s and
Music is an intensely personal form of art - for both those who create and those who take the time to appreciate. Music is often reflective of time periods within life. I feel that this list represents a very significant change in my life within the last year: the disappearance of time. My list last year had records that I enjoyed on a very deep level. I spent a lot of time listening to
FEATURING MEMBERS OF AT THE GATES, TEXTURES, GRINDLINK, FIGHT AMP, MONSTRO, GLORIOR BELLI, VALLENFYRE, HOODED MENACE, AND PORTRAIT Every year year, MetalSucks invites musicians from across the vast spectrum of the metalsphere (or, in a few cases, the almost-metalsphere) what their favorite albums of the year were. Death metallers, thrash metallers, black metallers, stoners, grinders, [...]
Uh-oh. It's started. It's not even December yet and yet the great Season Of Lists is upon us. As 2011 slowly creeps to a close, every man, woman, magazine, website, and radio station is publishing their Albums Of The Year List. Of all the major players, Decibel Magazine - America's only monthly metal magazine, and [...]
Gridlink are one of my favorite grind bands that I almost never have an excuse to write about. And part of the reason I never have an excuse to write about them is because they don't really tour; the band's members live in three different locations on two different continents, so it's not like they [...]
GRIDLINK - Orphan by Hydra Head Records GRIDLINK - 3 Miles Below Sea Level by Hydra Head Records It's not often that I'm in a grindcore mood, so why not show off a band that took their sweet time growing on me: Gridlink. I've been conscious of the band's latest LP, Orphan , for a few months now. It's twelve tracks that collectively span, yep, twelve freaking minutes. The tracks I've been sampling [...]
By Andrew Wilhelm (TX)Lately, I've developed a frustrated impatience for artists who are too prolific. Some bands release more music in a span of months than most do in their entire career -- Agathocles' Metal-Archives page is terrifying. Hyperprolificity is not entirely without merit. With the short attention span of many music consumers, it's important to keep your name out there. Also, now
ARTIST: The SWAG Report 52 with freebie mp3 downloads for songs by Baby Baby, Calhoun, Daniel Romano, Helms Alee, Jill Barber, Screens, The Trews, The Sea And Cake and more! So much more! DATE: 04-21-11 WRITER: Don Loder Hey there junky, Awright, firs' an' foremost, we gotta give the man his due – Happy Birthday Iggy Pop! On'is day in 1947, missus Louella Osterberg screamed out one o' the most enduring self-proclaimed idiots inna world, named 'im after his Daddy [...]
Before there were blogs there were these things called magazines, and the only metal magazine we still get excited about reading every month is Decibel. Here's managing editor Andrew Bonazelli... J. Bennett stopped by Decibel HQ last month; naturally, we took the opportunity to grab some adult beverages. It didn't take long for me to [...]
So I think the last time we heard about the new Gridlink album, it was scheduled to come out on via Hydra Head on February 22; that obviously didn't happen, but it is coming out on March 29! And Noisecreep has premiered the title track*, which was formerly available only in instrumental form. And it's [...]
I somehow missed that Jon Chang's Gridlink were even working on new material. Luckily, Crustcake schooled me today when they posted news of not one, but two new (unmastered) Gridlink songs currently streaming on the band's MySpace page: a "karaoke version" (read: currently without vocals) of "Orphan," which apparently also be the name of the new [...]
Hot damn! Finally some material from that new Gridlink album we told you about way back in June has surfaced. Two unmastered tracks from Orphan (due Feb. 22, Hydra Head) have been posted on the band's MySpace: a "karaoke version" of the title track and a song called "Hearts." As expected, Chang and Co. deliver some real scorchers. Release details after the jump.The scheduled street date for
Hydra Head has released a nifty sampler featuring Torche, Knut, Harvey Milk, Xasthur, and a whole lot more. Click the link and check out the track listing below. Track List Oxbow + Philippe Thiphaine - "Coalking" From Songs for the French (5:46) Daughters - "The First Supper" From "s/t" (3:18) Bohren & Der Club Of Gore - "Unkerich" From Dolores (5:31) Knut - "Calamity" From Wonder (1:43) The Austerity Program - "Song 273 From Backsliders and Apostates Will Burn (4:04) Pyramids With Nadja - [...]
Gridlink, the critically-acclaimed grind maestros (and camo trench coat jacket designers!), have announced they are "planted firmly" at New Jersey's Technical Ecstasy Studios to record Orphan, the follow-up to their superb 2008 debut, Amber Grey (Hyrdra Head). We all loved Amber (though don't let our lack of coverage convince you otherwise) and with the announcement of Gridlink's continued
Like so many grind bands, Gridlink (a.k.a. "Another awesome grind band with ex-Discordance Axis vocalist Jon Chang") make really, really short songs. Their first album, Amber Gray, was eleven tracks in something like twelve minutes; that was two years ago already. I don't mean to understate the amount of work that goes into making [...]
I barely remember the lost weekend I once spent in Baltimore. Was I bored, or just doing what I do? I dunno. I dunno. Looks like I might be going back, though: D.R.I. have been added to the already stellar line-up of the 2010 edition of Maryland Deathfest. This is just the latest in a long [...]
Shame on me for having never heard of Australia's Portal before. I just got their new album, Swarth (which apparently means "land covered with grassy turf"... metal teaches me a new word again!), last week, and it's blowing my mind. I don't even know how to describe it; it's death metal, I guess, but it's [...]
HALLELUJAH! Only a few weeks after the three-day slaughterfest that was MDF 2009, the madmen behind the whole thing (Ryan and Evan) have announced the initial lineup and dates for next year's edition. The festival will take place from May 28th to May 30th, with venue information to be released at a later date. The first [...]
My dumb friggin' luck. Gridlink, the killer grindcore out featuring Discordance Axis' Jon Chang, are kicking off a small East Coast tour tonight in Brooklyn and I can't make the show. And I was actually having a pretty good day. So I hope anyone who can go to one of these shows does go to one [...]
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