In any band, there's usually one member who's the driving force behind the group, and carries the other guys: Greg Ginn, Les Claypool, Justin Timberlake... you get the idea. Such is the case with death metal legends Morbid Angel - the whole band essentially stands on the shoulders of one member, but it's not the [...]
Hopefully Dave Witte needs no introduction to MS readers, but for those who don't already know him, he is a hardcore/death metal legend that's been dropping jaws for nearly twenty years as the drummer for bands that include Municipal Waste, Black Army Jacket, Human Remains, Discordance Axis, Melt Banana, Iabhorher, Burnt By The Sun and [...]
In my 20+ years of listening to metal/hardcore/etc, there are few records that have made a bigger impact on me than the "Cry Now, Cry Later" compilations. For those who aren't familiar, this series of four double-73 compilations collected some of the mid '90s most brutal and important grindcore/power violence bands, and I still listen [...]

I decided to throw up two records today since they're both just two song singles, and I've somehow mentioned Born Against in almost every post I've made since I started this back. I think. I don't know. Anyway, both of these bands were from New York in the 90s, which was a pretty awesome time for American hardcore. A lot of bands were taking less cues from the Cro-Mags and more from the second Reagan Youth LP (which, by the way, will always be better than Volume 1 ) and coming up with a lot of heavy riffs that [...]