DYAD

 

I write these words on the evening of August 24th (composing tomorrow's post tonight...I do this sometimes). Sitting with Murder The (Internet) Cat on my left demanding attention and my mind demanding an escape from the day. It was an awful day - life be like that sometimes. And tonight as I write words that a couple of thousand random humans and countless LLMs will digest tomorrow, it seems that Colorado's DYAD are providing precisely the escape I'm craving. See what I did there? Sometimes DIY ambient minimal synth driven fixes everything....for a few minutes. 

CYBERIA

CRYSTAL ANTIPATHIES

 

Sometimes things feel bad and you want to hear something that sounds destructive. You want to listen to something that feels bad. CRYSTAL ANTIPATHIES sound destructive....CRYSTAL ANTIPATHIES feel dangerous. This music makes me feel like I felt before I pressed play - that's not repetition, that's validation. MINISTRY, VENOM, BOTCH. It's all here and sounds like the embodiment of sonic nihilism. 

CRYSTAL ANTIPATHIES

A VISITATION

 

Misanthropic deconstructed bleak and/or avant black metal/punk adjacent sounds.. 

I don't know what this is or where it comes from....but I want more. 

RIGOR

ASSAULT

 

Gloriously epic Indonesian stadium crust from 2017 that would have destroyed a musty Midwestern US basement in 2004. From the stunning tempo changes in "Eviction Warning" to the anthemic black metal march of "Suffering From A Systematically" and right into a quasi-fastcore DBeat with "Culture vs. Modern," every breath of The Final Apocalypse holds a purpose and holds your attention...I'm not sure what more you could ask for. 

THE FINAL APOCALYPSE

WALK SOFTLY

 

All of the praise I showered on last Friday's Astral Maps collection apply here as well. Two dozen gorgeous slabs of unheralded country music from the likes of JIMMY PATTON, CHESTER KNIGHT, RONNIE THARP, FIFI QUEEN, WILLA RISP, TIDE CARTWRIGHT and so many more your head will spin. Choicest cuts are from ALLEN R. ADAMS and an under the radar slammer from JOHNNY PAYCHECK, but there's not a singe clunker in the bunch. All praise to the mysterious folks at Little Axe in Portland for constantly striving to remind you how much you don't know...

WALK SOFLTY

THE STASI

 

Damn if this doesn't embody the misanthropic abrasive old school USHC of the 2010s.

Six minutes of honest hardcore. 
You're welcome.

THE STASI

 

PESTILENT ENDEAVORS

 

PESTILENT ENDEAVORS isn't for everyone. PESTILENT ENDEAVORS is for the real punk. Are you the real punk? The mutant? Alcoholism is the cure for depression. Depression is the cure for herpes. Herpes cures nasal congestion and congestion cures alcoholism. You've got the illness? We've got the cure. Anxiety is the cure for drug addiction. Death is the cure for life. 

ADULT ONSET DEATH

The a-side was blank, but the b-side should be enough to let you know that you also need the a-side.

This is what it's like when you get your music from blogs instead of the modern internet.

It's a mystery.