Trashed and thrashed: Municipal Waste will fuck you up Lily Ramus and Tyler Harding May 2, 2023 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews Photo by Lily Ramus With finals season approaching, legions of stressed metalheads graduating sometime between 3 weeks from now and 40 years ago, descended upon the UC Theatre on Friday, April 28th. The cre...
Doom metal legends Candlemass triumph over technical difficulties at the DNA Lounge Lily Ramus and Tyler Harding March 18, 2023 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews Photo by Lily Ramus A gloomy storm-tossed Tuesday is a miserable time to leave the house, but a perfect time for some occult doom metal. It was immediately apparent that this verdict reverberated across the...
Metal for Halloween! Tyler Harding October 29, 2020 Album Review, Reviews Halloween is celebrated through disparate traditions by cultures around the world. Globalization in the United States has turned the season into an amalgamation of customs from across the world, the simulacrum...
BLM! Albums of Perseverance Stanley Quiros, Natalie Gott, Tyler Harding and Amber Ellertson August 22, 2020 Columns and Opinions Keep fighting! Black Lives Matter has gained so much traction these past few months, and the next step is remembering that movements require long term internalization into one’s way of living. Times are gett...
Top Metal EPs of 2020 (So Far) Tyler Harding July 24, 2020 Album Review, Reviews The metal underground has seen a massive revival in the digital age, and it can be daunting to parse through dozens of terrible one-man basement black metal groups to find a gem. I can attest to this, as the 1...
Hexenbrett’s Happy Haunting Tyler Harding May 30, 2020 Album Review, Reviews 1 Comment Horror is paradoxically uncool: the elements of horror are ubiquitous and mainstream, and yet the genre itself remains insular and weird, the torch passionately carried by modern directors like Robert Eggers a...
Malokarpatan: Slovakian Witchery Tyler Harding March 30, 2020 Album Review, Reviews 1 Comment You find yourself in a cabin in a forgotten wood, and the grizzled wanderer across the fire tells stories about the dense, hushed forest outside your warm sanctuary. Through his bawdy, gruff guise, the strange...