The Body-Hail to Thee, Everlasting Pain: The Sound of 1000 Frustrated Orgasms of Basement Metal Nerds

The Corpus of heavy metal




This track is essentially a dream come true. The Body, a sludge band that has been steadily increasing their profile among metal heads and music journalists by being dark as fuck, and The Haxan Cloak, darkness personified, are doing a collaborative album. This will be an extraordinary album if every track is as chaotic as this one. Who knew these two projects would get on so brilliantly? The video is essentially an afterthought, minimalist moving images which is welcome in the contrast to The Afghan Whigs's last video attempt.

The Afghan Whigs-Algeria: A Few Fucks More

Anything to put The Afghan Whigs in the pop culture spotlight again is a good thing




So The Afghan Whigs are now old, which means they are obligated to like Westerns. But that's ok, because Marty Robbins is the shit and combining a western sound and aesthetic with Greg Dulli's voice is hip as fuck. Unfortunately the music video is sort of hilariously bad since the climax is a guitar solo which you can't even hear because of all the men whipping old Greg Dulli. Thus, the ending of the video where Greg Dulli hunts down and kills his tormentors is only the second most insane moment of the video. On balance though, this +10000000000 because the Afghan Whigs are back

St. Vincent-St. Vincent

For fans of: St. Vincent, knowing an indie band that you're parents won't loath

Rating: St. Vincent once again makes a well constructed pop album, lyrically and stylistically diverse the album is fun to listen to throughout but really lacks any staying power. It's certainly a good album, but it wasn't as revelatory as the early reviews would lead one to believe.

Behemoth-The Satanist

For Fans of: Black metal, detailing the differences between LaVeyan Satanism and Theological Satanism, people who kicked cancer's ass #fuckcancer

Rating: It's certainly not going to be the black metal crossover hit that Sunbather was, but it's a fucking amazing black metal album. If you enjoy black metal, or really any extreme music, this album is a must buy.

Death Grips-No Love

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Have a Nice Life-The Unnatural World

For Fans of: GY!BE and Post-hardcore, thinking that lo-fi necessarily makes an album more emotional, liking black metal enough to understand its importance but not enough to listen to it, having Goth dance parties by yourself

Rating: Buy this album, it's only 5$ on their bandcamp

Sunn 0))) and Ulver-Terrestirals

For fans of: Sunn 0))), modern Ulver, a fitful sleep interspersed with nightmares, continuing to act like you understand Sunn 0)) to impress the hipsters, Satan

Rating: Pretty good, if you're into that sort of thing.

Mark Stewart-Learning to Cope with Cowardice

For fans of: Explaining who Lee Perry is, explaining who The Pop Group is (coming soon to a shitty blog near you!), ruining parties for the plebs who don't understand your music.