Cosmic Hearse

When are a staple in the Norwegian avant-garde electronic alterno-psych scene, if there even is such a thing. When is the work of Lars Peder...

Quartz were one of the better second tier NWOBHM bands that, sadly, never really got the attention they deserved. While their first couple o...

Broken Talent were kind of like Miami's Flipper. They were noisy, abrasive, and were the non-conformists in a punk scene that prided its...

Bone Awl's second release was the seven inch EP called Night Is Indifferent . It was released in 2003 in a limited run of 400 copies. It...

Rattus Norvegicus , The Stranglers' first album from 1978, is so fucking great that I shouldn't really have to tell you about it, bu...

Cosmic Hearse reader and friend, Nick, hooked me up with another lost Swedish metal rarity that was on my wishlist. Faith released this tota...

Human Condition , the German bootleg released in 1995 is regarded as the best, and most respectful of the gazillions of G.I.S.M. bootlegs....

Maybe when you think of The Scorpions you think of "Rock Me Like a Hurricane," balding krauts, and striped spandex moose knuckle. ...

Back when I posted UFO's live epic Strangers In The Night ,it got folks talking about their favorite live albums, which led to me dusti...

Okay, I am a huge fan of the Sublime Frequencies label run by members of The Sun City Girls. Over the last decade the label has released wh...

Back when I posted Immortal's Pure Holocaust album, I mentioned that it was the perfect introduction to Black Metal for the uninitiated...

Yeah, I know this record isn't super rare, or cult, and is a bit dated, but in the spirit of the League themselves I gotta say "Fuc...

Debauchery was basically just Akhenaten of Judas Iscariot trying his hand at a more Death Metal vocal style with lyrics about S&M and f...

Gift Horse was an amazing, but short-lived, instrumental band from San Francisco that featured among its ranks, Doug Hilsinger on guitar, Da...

When you think of Cleveland...well, you probably don't. Anyways just because you never think about it doesn't mean it doesn't ex...

"The Stunts! The Rock!" read the tagline for Brian Trenchard-Smith's epic 1978 film Stunt Rock. He enlisted the talents of a y...

Confuse's first full-length, Indignation , originally appeared on the Japanese scene as a cassette in 1984. Though this was their debut ...

Geheimnis is a stunning, one-man Black Metal band from Brazil, led by a character called Count Belial. This tape, Das Negras Montanhas , rem...

Kreator was always a band whose name was often bantered about in my punk circle when I was a downy-moustached teen. We were interested in th...

It's cool when readers send in their band's stuff to be included in the Hearse, especially when it's good. Such is the case with...