It began in the 90's...
Curve: Radio Sessions
Catherine Wheel: Chrome
Cranes: Wings of Joy
Mazzy Star: So Tonight that I Might See
The Verve: A Storm in Heaven
Portishead: Dummy
Suede: Suede
Strangelove: Time for the Rest of Your Life
Therapy?: Troublegum
MSP: The Holy Bible
PJ Harvey: To Bring You My Love
Paradise Lost: Draconian Times
KYUSS
It began in the 90's...
Curve: Radio Sessions
Catherine Wheel: Chrome
Cranes: Wings of Joy
Mazzy Star: So Tonight that I Might See
The Verve: A Storm in Heaven
Portishead: Dummy
Suede: Suede
Strangelove: Time for the Rest of Your Life
Therapy?: Troublegum
MSP: The Holy Bible
PJ Harvey: To Bring You My Love
Paradise Lost: Draconian Times
KYUSS
Mastiff have slightly changed tack with this new album, less influenced by black metal, and more firmly harcore... but there is still a total absence of light and an all pervading nihilism, not to mention the unrelenting vitriol. Everything Is Ending makes it to my favourite track (pure hardcore), but Worship is a close second (the ghost of Jeff Hanneman haunts on). God-damn dog just tore all the flesh off the bone then pissed on the bloody mess left behind!
I'm so grateful to Southern Lord for their $1 promos, it prompts me to check out some bands I haven't heard before, and in so doing I often uncover gems such as Lifesick. This is so well crafted hardcore, and is impossibly catchy, more than hardcore has any right to be. Very creative with guitar tones. And the percussion (to my ignorant ears) is breathtaking. Bit of a hint of Slayer, including vocals, and that can only be a good thing. There's so much to love here, I'm hooked!
I chose Every Unpleasant Emotion as favourite track just because Lifesick had the balls to do something completely different... reminded me of Nick Cave / Warren Ellis, and Cave's Murder Ballads LP!
Really enjoyed the video to Reverse Birth. Nails' Todd Jones features on the recorded version... apparently, Nails will be releasing a 4th LP this year 2024, so keep a look out for that.
God is a disease, a plague, a weight around a man’s neck... A disease which eats away his instincts. God is a superstition, a cancer, a man-made cancer, which is injected into the brain in the form of religion - David Smith in correspondence with Ian Brady, quoted in Evil Relations, Carol Ann Lee
Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind and poisons us. The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret. The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful - Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy, then gives them drugs to take away their unhappiness... Instead of removing the conditions that make people depressed, modern society gives them antidepressant drugs. In effect, antidepressants are a means of modifying an individual’s internal state in such a way as to enable him to tolerate social conditions that he would otherwise find intolerable. - Industrial Society and Its Future - Theodore Kaczynski
You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral & social conventions you despise, condemn, & know lack all foundation. It is that permanent contradiction between your ideas & desires & all the dead formalities & vain pretences of your civilisation which makes you sad, troubled & unbalanced. In that intolerable conflict you lose all joy of life & all feeling of personality, because at every moment they suppress & restrain & check the free play of your powers - The Torture Garden - Octave Mirbeau
Every man or woman is one of two things, a masochist or a sadist, only a few practise what they feel... Perversion is the way a man thinks, the way he feels, the way he lives. People are like maggots, small, blind, worthless fish bait... Murder is a hobby and a supreme pleasure... it’s a state of mind - David Smith in correspondence with Ian Brady, quoted in Evil Relations, Carol Ann Lee
Opening with a big phat squelchy bass riff, 3737 declares its intent, setting the bar high, & continues to deliver in spades for the following songs, too. This really is a strong album, no filler at all, stoner vibes backed with plenty of weight. Excellent drumming, excellent guitars & solos, and Caleb's voice is great, strong & confident. I was a bit harsh on the previous album Mystic Goddess, but any doubts I had have now been blown out of the water. You really do need this in your collection!
There are no dying embers or rust here, for SÂVER are forging a dark metallurgy, the transmutation of base (bass) metal into pure gold. I get so immersed in SÂVER's sound that I completely forget that I'm listening to music... it is more a place that I go to. An amazing band. Give a listen to their earlier bands Hymn and Tombstones, too.
