Cosmic Hearse

One of your favorite albums slowed to 33rpm and ripped, creating something that sounds like the most monstrous crust band of all time. A new...

Here's some hairy, hophead, hard rock from Haystacks Balboa. With particularly heavy guitars ala Mountain or Grand Funk, wailing Hammond...

Imynvokad is an extremely shrouded Black Metal band from Austin, Texas. Sole member Beleseth, also plays in Thra'el. This excellent 7...

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Badge, another unsung NWOBHM band that only managed to eke out one single during their run. The A side, "Silver Woman" is an infec...

How fucking cool is this little EP? Not a whole lot is known about The Cheifs We do know they were from L.A., and if you were paying attenti...

The Singapore Black Metal scene is a fascinating one. There are many bands to check out, but let's start with one of the oldest and cold...

YBO² was a strange band from Tokyo whose personnel during their six year run reads like a veritable who's who of Japanese avant garde mu...

Adversary, another Swedish death metal band rotting in obscurity. These morbid minors wallowed in the bullshit town of Sandviken, a town kno...

Here's Japanese hardcore record that doesn't get much attention, Client's 1988 Trap ep. Client give you all the trappings of ri...

Deviser are a pretty odd, thrashy black metal band from Greece whose history can be traced back to 1988. This EP, The Revelation of Higher ...

You all seem to respond to the posts about these early FWOSHM (first wave of Swedish Heavy Metal) bands, so I am excited to share with you a...

The Catatonics were probably the best thing about Flipside's Vinyl Fanzine 2, and yet this 1984 EP remains relatively unknown. These spe...

Here's some rather maudlin psych/hard blues rock goodness from a little known Missouri band called Bulbous Creation. This album, You Won...

Ready for some Black Metal weirdness from France? This is Amon Sul, a bizarre trio from Calais. They seem to be going for an Immortal sound ...

The Cast Iron Canaries were an exceptional band from Santa Cruz (and later San Francisco.) They sounded a lot like The Damned, had a charism...

How is it that you love Bathory's first album so much, but you seem wholly indifferent to Bulldozer's debut The Day of Wrath ? Is ...

Arguably the most important and influential artifact of Swedish Hardcore is this EP by Mob 47. Mob 47 hailed from the very no bullshit town ...

If you went nutters for the oddball paranormally obsessed Black Metal fumblings of Ahulabrum you would do wise to check out this tape by Be...

One of my favorite bands, Mighty Sphincter, released their first LP, The New Manson Family in 1986, and despite what the liner notes say, A...