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.
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Ritual Ascension – Profanation of the Adamic Covenant Review
Perched on a wobbly table, Cosmo clutches his peppermint mocha like a sacred relic. He lifts it skyward, eyes blazing with caffeinated conviction, and whispers with holy reverence, ‘Ritual Ascension… the bolo tie of Minnesota.’
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Tower – 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!
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Savage 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.
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Dissocia – To Lift the Veil Review
How a genre that is built on experimentation and outside the box songwriting ends up sounding all the same and using the same tricks just baffles me. But once in a while, an act shows up and makes me pay attention because of their knack for individual expression. Did Dissocia just look at the handbook and throw it out the window?
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Dripping – 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.
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Hirax – Faster Than Death Review
When bears don’t mosh, they rummage through some thrash. Will the return of Hirax induce some bear-fisted action, or will they leave Bobo hanging in the trash pit?
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Marrowomb – Phiesnomie Review
Phisenomie is a collection of tracks that roughly deal in the same kind of sound as Vredehammer — blackened death metal focused on furious riffs that trade blows across the songs. Where Marrowomb manage to stand out is in some odd rhythms and use of dissonant chords that is a clear heritage from its creators time in Polyptych. As it stand, tough, our Gator may have a few bones to pick with its dedication to the mighty riff.
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Sleep Paralysis – Sleep Paralysis Review
If that amazing album cover doesn’t freak you out then I don’t know what to tell you. I always find it amazing when visual art and the theme of an album gel together well, and so I was hoping that Sleep Paralysis would be a powerful statement on its theme, matching that image. A bird in the hand is better than two in the forest. Spiders tho…?
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Crypts of the Unknown: Incubator – McGillroy the Housefly
