Posts from the ‘Brutal Tunes’ Category
Black Waltz, the forth full-length album from Swedish metallers Avatar, releases on the US on Feb 14 2012. Don’t let the Valentine’s Day release date fool you – this is no soppy power metal lovefest, but a solid, catchy, almost industrial-style album that will probably launch Avatar into the mainstream market. Produced by Tobias Lindell [...]
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Edited to add some gig photos from Misery of Chaos NZ. So. I missed Heresiarch (because I fell asleep on the couch and had to change my t-shirt because I drooled on it? I can neither confirm nor deny), but my mate Ross said they were “like a bulldozer”, which I think is a pretty [...]
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Named after one of the sickest horror films I’ve ever seen (I watched the original version a couple of weeks ago, it still sits uncomfortably at the back of my mind), I Spit On Your Grave’s debut EP will have filthy grindcore fans gnashing their teeth in appreciation. Aside from having a classy cover, their [...]
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As part of the Hailstorm of Fire and Choas tour, Absu will be unleashed on the King’s Arms Tavern tomorrow night. Doors open 7:30 for the first of many awesome gigs this year. Absu are hot off playing multiple sold-out shows in Australia, and they’ve been receiving rave reviews for their rare appearance on stage. Absu [...]
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Super Happy Story Time Land doesn’t sounds more like a Japanese seizure-inducing children’s video game than a <> grindcore band. But if you were on one of those torture game shows, and you guess the video-game, you’d have a bucket full of scorpions crawling over your testicles right now. Their stage shows incorporate storyboards and [...]
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Steff Metal at First Thursdays
Review: Clinging to the Trees Of A Forest Fire – Visceral
Review: Spiral – The Traveller
Linking Horn: Links for Kevin Costner
AetherCon: The 2012 Auckland Steampunk Convention
