For the real amount of gains, Scuttlegoat need something loud, bassy. Something with a lack of nuance and constant aggressive dynamics. Oh, and it must be good, too.
Read moreVacant Moley – The Programmed Obsolescence of Your Kind Review
Dripping has not done much since the cult release Disintegration of Thought Patterns During a Synthetic Mind Traveling Bliss, although a single released just last year might suggest that more new music is on the horizon — a beautiful side effect of the internet age is that cult classics can be revived and live on. The musicians have not been lazy, either way. Or rather, Ed Morris, a relatively new addition to Dripping who now seems to be one of its main creative forces, has not. Vacant Moley is a solo project by Morris that, in any way but name, just seems like more Dripping. Glaze us, weirdo slam daddy.
Read moreMessa – The Spin Review
The cruel, ever advancing passage of time spares no one. Three years, and a few mental breakdowns and depressive episodes later, Scuttlegoat finds himself confronted with The Spin. Will it make him turn 360 degrees around and walk away?
Read moreTower – Let There Be Dark Review
Facing his computer clad in a sexy troubadour cosplay, Goat can no longer deny who he is — he loves female fronted trad metal. The only thing that can tear his eyes away from Stacey Savage is another female fronted band. Sarabeth Linden from Tower steals the stage, let there be female fronted trad metal!
Read moreSavage Master – Dark and Dangerous Review
Savage Master has a female vocalist, Stacey Savage. Stacey Savage sits front and center more and more with every album that they release. Stacey Savage wears a snow white cosplay on the cover. The Goat is not sure that Stacey Savage has quite earned all this attention, though.
Read moreDripping – Disintegration of Thought Patterns During a Synthetic Mind Traveling Bliss
Join us as Scuttlegoat reminisces on Dripping’s 2002 release Disintegration of Thought Patterns During a Synthetic Mind Traveling Bliss. Oh, never heard of it? Well here in the Crypts we specialize in the unknown, the uncelebrated, and the uncovered, no matter how recent or distant. We can’t keep all our dirty little secrets… especially when they ooze out of our slamming unconscious thoughts.
Read moreCrypts of the Unknown: Blunt Force Trauma – Vengeance for Nothing
Join us as Scuttlegoat reminisces on Blunt Force Trauma’s 2012 release Vengeance for Nothing. Oh, never heard of it? Well here in the Crypts we specialize in the unknown, the uncelebrated, and the uncovered, no matter how recent or distant. We can’t keep all our dirty little secrets… and believe us when we say that this one is filthy.
Read moreTubal Cain – Slime Abyss Review
Black metal used to be about icy feelings — depression, hate , borderless self-expression. Scuttlegoat, for one, is quite glad that black metal musicians have discovered that having material that can actually be grabbed on to is beneficial. He wholly welcomes the rise of blackened traditional metal, which Tubal Cain and Slime Abyss fall into nicely. What once was kvvl is now kvlt again.
Read morePentagram – Lightning in a Bottle Review
What about Pentagram has ever been “Lightning in a Bottle”? Pentagram are, fundamentally, the first all-American Sabbath rip-off. Given, Pentagram were early adopters, releasing singles all throughout the ’70s even if the first full-length only materialized in the mid-’80s. Being early is not always a good thing. Good thing lightning in a bottle strikes exactly when it needs to. Like a wizard. That’s how that works, right?
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