Year: 2024Label: Century Media This year marks the 10th anniversary of US rap/hardcore/metal act Body Count’s fifth studio album Manslaughter, which was a true return to form after the somewhat lacklustre Murder 4 Hire eight years prior. In fact, it … Continue reading BODY COUNT: Merciless
Year: 2024Label: Svart Records So many artists, so many releases, so little time. Especially when your musical tastes are somewhat extensive and far reaching, this equation becomes impossible – and I do consider my taste to be just that. As … Continue reading PETRIFICATION: Sever Sacred Light
David Allan Coe is without doubt one of the most controversial characters within country music. There’s no shortage of reasons for this. Some of them humorous, such as the legendary story of him riding to Nashville in a hearse; some … Continue reading From the Vaults #11: Longhaired Redneck/Rides Again
Release year: 2024Label: Reigning Phoenix Music Around the time thrash metal icons Slayer called it quits in 2019, founding member and guitarist Kerry King made it known he would not have liked to end the band. As such, when the … Continue reading KERRY KING: From Hell I Rise
It must have been 25 years ago to the month that I first heard US death/doom icons Winter for the first time. I remember it clearly: spring was already turning warm, the end of school was just a few weeks … Continue reading From the Vaults #10: Into Darkness/Eternal Frost
Release year: 2024Label: Young Guns II Now, this here release is a prime example of the reasons why I love punk, the grassroots scene and the DIY ethos. I mean, how awesome isn’t the story of how this release came … Continue reading ROACHENDERS: Roachenders
Let’s talk perfection. Let’s talk Danzig’s second album Lucifuge. Of its 11 tracks, an amazing 10 are pure perfection, and the remaining one track – Pain In The World – is “just” pretty damn awesome. Regardless of what you think … Continue reading From the Vaults #9: Lucifuge
Year: 2024Publisher: Basam BooksOriginal title: High Magick – A Guide to the Spiritual Practices That Saved My Life on Death RowAvailable in: multiple languages The name of Damien Echols might be familiar to you not only if you have an … Continue reading Echols, Damien: KORKEA MAGIA
Release year: 2024Label: self-released It’s funny. Whenever winter starts turning to spring, I start listening to horrorcore. I mean, I listen to it all year ’round a little bit, but when the first signs of spring start to appear, that’s … Continue reading KEAGAN GRIMM: Gospell
When someone my age listens to The Ink Spots, an all-black US vocal group who had their heyday in the 1940’s, one can relatively safely assume they are also a fan of the Fallout video game franchise. And yes indeed, … Continue reading From the Vaults #8: The Best Of The Ink Spots
Only Death Is Real 