ZEUS! is so unbelievable heavy it’s almost unmusical. Which is not to say there’s no melody or that it’s not catchy (their Opera LP is all of this and more). Just that, when you hear this Italian duo play together, you don’t think of a band. You think of power, mountains, strength, force. It’s an MORE…
SQUID PISSER eviscerates the ego and and all things serene with their own vibrant form of vicious and mucky hardcore. Slamming down dolphin corpses at breakneck speeds, the duo, which is comprised of Tommy Meehan on guitar (Deaf Club, Cancer Christ, Sweatband Records, Cartoon Network) and Seth Carolina (Starcrawler), have constructed a fresh and mucousy MORE…
Venamoris – Drown in Emotion LP Venamoris was founded in 2021 by what can only be called astral influence. Married couple Paula and Dave (Slayer, Fantômas, Testament, Mr. Bungle, Misfits, Dead Cross) Lombardo formed Venamoris as a result of some persistent persuasion on the latter’s part. Dave, who is in charge of drums and production MORE…
Maybe it’s because I’m home in San Diego this week and the sunshine is tripping me out after a long winter on the farm but right now Retox feels like the brutal dark punk Beach Boys. It’s a beautiful, warm day where I’m at, the sun hot on the back of my fake leather jacket, MORE…
Hello from a hot summer night—wind lashing the trees in the darkness like a Hawaiian storm on the prairie. Order of operations: make dinner—enchiladas with green sauce. Miyoko’s cheese shreds spread in layers over (and in between and under) stacks of rolled-up tortillas (and inside each rolled-up tortilla—refried beans, diced cherry tomatoes [and tofu grilled MORE…
SQUID PISSER eviscerates the ego and and all things serene with their own vibrant form of vicious and mucky hardcore. Slamming down dolphin corpses at breakneck speeds, the duo, which is comprised of Tommy Meehan on guitar (Deaf Club, Cancer Christ, Sweatband Records, Cartoon Network) and Seth Carolina (Starcrawler), have constructed a fresh and mucousy MORE…
SQUID PISSER eviscerates the ego and and all things serene with their own vibrant form of vicious and mucky hardcore. Slamming down dolphin corpses at breakneck speeds, the duo, which is comprised of Tommy Meehan on guitar (Deaf Club, Cancer Christ, Sweatband Records, Cartoon Network) and Seth Carolina (Starcrawler), have constructed a fresh and mucousy MORE…
Inside the club it’s very dark and crowded. The window to the courtyard is foggy from all the bodies in the room and the Locust is on stage, halfway through a minute-long song I love, then half a minute later the song is over. The band is all dyed black hair and denim, dirtbag glamour, MORE…
Venamoris was founded in 2021 by what can only be called astral influence. Married couple Paula and Dave (Slayer, Fantômas, Testament, Mr. Bungle, Misfits, Dead Cross) Lombardo formed Venamoris as a result of some persistent persuasion on the latter’s part. Dave, who is in charge of drums and production on the record, explains: “Several months MORE…
I want to tell you that it was one hell of a summer and I mean that in a bad way. Summer as hellish season—as death, grief, and displacement. In the opening credits to the Jeffersons, Ja’Net Dubois (standing in for [and in character as] George and Weezy Jefferson) sings, “Took a whole lot of MORE…