American Standard begins with a shock. Vocalist Michael Berdan stands alone, screaming, “A part of me, but it can’t be me. Oh God, it can’t.” It all starts with an admission. Beneath the harrowing screams, there’s the pain of bulimia nervosa.There’s the pain of a […]
Like the towering mounds of toxic waste from which it gets its namesake, the music of Oklahoma City noise rock quartet Chat Pile is a suffocating, grotesque embodiment of the existential anguish that has defined the 21st Century. It figures that a band with this […]
sadorituals.bandcamp.cominstagram.com/gatesofhypnosandsadoritualsfacebook.com/SadoRituals ML-005: Sado Rituals – Conquering the Passions of the Flesh A forty minutes long industrial noise improv filled with constantly mutilated, pulsating drones and hissings. A piece dedicated to fasting and overcoming the temptations of the flesh in order to open to the spiritual. […]
“And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee named Nazareth, to a Virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the Virgin’s name was Mary. And the angel came […]
