Demonologists
Miscarriage Of The Soul
Crucial Blast (2011)
This is another band that while maintaining some bleak footing in the black metal scene exists as a noise group. That is not to say there aren't obvious trademarks of black metal within the structures, however loosely built they are. This band plays on the darkness that many black metal bands try to play up and orchestrate. Rather than just being another grouping of disenfranchised metal kids that play with their four tracks this is something more spiteful than what most people would attribute to black metal.Like most artists in the noise genre this is an exercise in what the listener and player can withstand. The bulk of the album is an oscillating, static fueled mess of sorts. The vocals fall directly into the mix with no regard for being anything outside of another instrument with the melee. They whisper, croak and scream their way through these tracks. With no discernible words within the vocal attack it acts as a catalyst for the other weapons at the group's disposal. The instruments themselves are a barely recognizable guitar flayed by what may be one of the hugest pedal displays in history (assumption not fact). Every once in awhile one can hear … Read more
Dan Padilla
As The Ox Plows
Razorcake (2011)
It’s been almost a year since As the Ox Plows popped up on the interwebs. Back then it boasted itself … Read more
High Tension Wires
Welcome New Machine
Dirtnap (2011)
Namedropping in reviews is an easy thing to do, and I’m not averse to it myself. The obvious ones for … Read more
