Pagan Fire/Cumsock Split CD SkullFucking Metal Records, 2006 Review by Kent Manthie This split CD by The Philippines’ Pagan Fire and Canada’s Cumsock is a whirligig of SPEED/death metal (they say there’s a difference but there really isn’t) – the first four cuts, which are by Pagan Fire, which are all about 5 minutes long […]

M-Pex & DJ Makrox Volukta Enough Records, 2012 Review by Kent Manthie   This new release by M-Pex & Makrox, Volukta is a really special treat.  Not only is it available for free via http://www.archive.org, but it’s a great listen.  It’s billed as “Electronic” but there’s more to it than that:  there’s some primo acoustic […]

Audible War #2 Gruuthaagy/Bone Machine (Split CD) Skull Fucking Metal, 2012 Review by Kent Manthie   This is an interesting disc.  Audible War #2 is a split CD by two similar bands that have transcended the speed/death metal genre as well as metal machine noise and have dove into experimental, esoteric “anti-music”. I really dig […]

Stirner 2012 Review by Kent Manthie     Well, we just got a whole new batch of experimental “noise” CDs and it takes a really special breed to be able to stomach the brave new noise. The first disc I pulled out of the package I received was an eponymous album by the magnate of mayhem, […]

Jared C. Balogh Detaching Realities (Vols.1&2) Altered State Reflections Review by Kent Manthie   Where to begin?  These two albums are so hard to pin down, so hard to “put in a box” – uh, that’s a good thing, by the way.  The easiest way to describe it is with one word:  “Jazz”.  But it’s […]