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Album of the day: Black Tusk – Taste The Sin

Posted on Thursday, July 15th, 2010

Lovingly pinched from Pitchfork: The single, substantive frill of Taste the Sin, the excellent Relapse debut album by Savannah, Ga., metal trio Black Tusk, comes as the final track begins. “Well, hell, World War II gave us the ball point pen,” says the actor Charles Tyner in a monologue excerpted from his hilarious role as the militant Uncle Victor in the 1971 film Harold and Maude. With tales of war and murder, and his well-decorated uniform, he brings the lugubrious teen Harold to some uncomfortable intersection of euphoria and orgasm. “I say get the krauts on the other side of the fence where they belong. Let’s get back to the kind of enemy worth killing.”


Black Tusk eventually interrupt Tyner’s talk, massive drums and turbid guitar slashing through the script like lightning bolts. But the passage is significant as a thematic statement and– by then, 34 minutes into these 37– a reminder of just how relentless and economical Taste the Sin has been.
Jonathan Athon’s swollen bass tone and the band’s tendency to put it in the middle suggest fellow Southern metallurgists Weedeater, while the serrated vocals and mid-tempo dominance recall fellow Savannah lords Baroness. But Black Tusk’s particular alchemy of metal and hardcore elides the fancy tangents of both bands, swapping Baroness’ acoustic and hyper-technical alleyways and Weedeater’s smoked-skull drones for a deliberate, methodical mix of marches and sprints. Churning like hardcore and viscous like stoner metal, Taste the Sin is the rare crossover record that works to capitalize on the immediacy of its chosen genres and not to bend them into obscurity. It’s a power play.

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Album of the day: Rangda – False Flag

Posted on Tuesday, June 15th, 2010

Lovingly pinched from Pitchfork: The question of what to release first is a dilemma for any new group, but especially so when the individual members already have recognizable styles. They can test the waters with a quick, don’t  hold us to this EP, or roll the full-length dice and hope ...read more

Black Mountain Announce New Album; new track available for streaming

Posted on Tuesday, June 8th, 2010

Spaced-out Vancouver riff-rockers Black Mountain have spent much of the time since releasing their last album, 2008′s In the Future, concentrating on side projects like Pink Mountaintops and Lightning Dust. But this summer, the main band roars back into action. Jagjaguwar will release Wilderness Heart, their new album, on September ...read more

Album of the day: Drive-By Truckers – The Big To-Do

Posted on Thursday, March 25th, 2010

Lovingly pinched from Pitchfork: On their first two albums (1998′s Gangstabilly and 1999′s Pizza Deliverance), the Drive-By Truckers were supreme redneck jokesters, specializing in scabrous white-trash vignettes owing more to Southern Gothic fiction (Flannery O Connor, Barry Hannah) than any sub-Mason-Dixon stand-up hacks. As the band matured and its de ...read more

High on Fire’s ‘Frost Hammer’ Video Posted On Line

Posted on Thursday, March 11th, 2010

High on Fire has just released its critically lauded new album, Snakes for the Divine. Now, the band premieres its brand new music video – for the explosive track ‘Frost Hammer’ — via Pitchfork. Check out Pitchfork’s world premiere of High on Fire’s’ Frost Hammer video below:

Album of the day: Spiritualized – Ladies and Gentlemen We are Floating in Space [Collector's Editon]

Posted on Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

Lovingly pinched from Pitchfork: “There’s a hole in my arm where all the money goes,” moans Jason Pierce at the start of “Cop Shoot Cop…”, the 17-minute closer of Spiritualized‘s third album and lone masterpiece, Ladies and Gentlemen We are Floating in Space. His bedraggled voice drips through the words. ...read more

Album of the day: High on Fire – Snakes for the Divine

Posted on Monday, March 1st, 2010

Lovingly pinched from Pitchfork: High on Fire make burly music; that’s the only thing you can really call it. The Oakland power trio’s thundering roar isn't dumb; there’s a clear technical virtuosity on display in Matt Pike’s squiddling solos, and the songs move confidently through multiple riffs and movements without ...read more

Album of the day: Jesu – Opiate Sun

Posted on Saturday, February 13th, 2010

Lovingly pinched from Pitchfork: The EP might be the ideal format for Justin Broadrick’s music, regardless of his alias. Whether he’s trying to erase your head via concrete-slab guitars in Napalm Death, reduce techno to a series of clockwork hammerblows with Final, or massage your pleasure centers with neo-shoegaze in ...read more

Dinosaur Jr’s J Mascis announces new band: Sweet Apple

Posted on Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

Dinosaur Jr’s J Mascis has launched a new band, the gently named Sweet Apple. The group, featuring members of Cobra Verde and Witch, are to release their debut album on 30 March 2010 (TeePee Records). Their formation was announced with suitably dramatic language, claiming to have “been born by accident ...read more

Album of the day: Woods – Songs of Shame

Posted on Sunday, December 27th, 2009

Lovingly pinched from Pitchfork: Like many Woodsist Records alums– the NYC-based label has also recently issued records by Vivian Girls, Wavves, Crystal Stilts, and Sic Alps– Woods have spent much of their time together quickly earning respect and fans in underground rock circles. Unlike those previously mentioned groups, however, they’ve ...read more

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