Ahhh, Paying homage to some of my favorite bands from Chicago, both signed and unsigned. Great playlist that I loved throwing together at the last minute hehe. Hope you all enjoyed, and thanks to all that tuned in! STAY BRVTAL! Spotify playlist here!
Oh wow, what a nice breezy walk through the woods this was. By woods I mean a cyberpunk version of the ninth circle of hell, and by breezy I mean the atmosphere of fucking Jupiter. What a delicious set of tracks from the mastermind behind Scientist, Eric Plonka. This sludgy batch of blistering blast beats […]
Varaha’s first EP is a fucking BANGER. Wrote this when it was released back in 2016. Chicago has one of the best, yet overlooked metal music scene. There are so many talented artists out there working their asses off to create their views of beauty, sorrow, angst, or whatever through music. It is all within […]
Reviewing Without Waves’ Lunar album here from a couple years ago. They thanked me in their liner notes!!!! Oh these crazy cats have finally released their album. I have a little bit of history with Without Waves. A couple years back, I was helping co-host the Rock in Chicago podcast, where we interviewed many of […]
Here is a review of Pale Horseman I did back in 2015! Plug. Have you ever daydreamed about walking through some cold, dark, musty catacombs in search for treasure? If not, you either never watched any Indiana Jones movies as a kid, or you are a filthy liar, or maybe you just do not have […]
Reviewing Scientist’s 2nd album here, and I fucking love this thing. 2015 in the house! After a night of heavy drinking, Neurosis’ “Through Silver in Blood” went to the titty bar to see if he can get lucky. He stumbles into the dark, nasty club and orders another drink… a whiskey sour on the rocks […]
A review I wrote from one of my favorite fucking bands, and one of my fucking favorite albums of all time. Released in 2013. Every once in a great while, an album is released that just attaches itself to you and shatters you to your very core. To me, Scientist’s self-titled release is one of […]
Here is a review I did of Immortal Bird back in 2013! Its been pretty cold here in Chicago with the whole polar vortex thing going on, and if you are like I am, the temperature and weather affects the patterns of what music I listen to. What a joy it was to have Immortal […]
Here is a review I wrote back in 2013! I know all of you have experienced this in one way or another. You are either at work, or doing something around the house/apartment/garage/trailer/cardboard box, and you’ve got music blaring in the background because silence utterly sucks. You have your shit on random, or some sort […]
Here is an interview I did with Chigrel Glanzmann from Eluveitie back in February 2012! Of all the bands that I have seen over the years, Eluveitie is definitely one of the most intense live performances I have had the pleasure of seeing. They describe themselves as “The new wave of folk metal”….and with good […]