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Genghis Tron – Dead Mountain Mouth – Review

September 22, 2006

A substantial portion of the electronic beats has been replaced by more grind, and a touch of electrified doom. The guitars sound more assured and comfortable.

Jumbo’s Killcrane – The Slow Decay – Review

September 30, 2005

Much like the Southern-sludge-doom-scum-murder-rock of Eyehategod, Seven Foot Spleen, or Buzzoven. Dense, powerful, and fully-formed.

Infidel?/Castro! – Bioentropic Damage Fractal – Review

April 13, 2005

My cat runs from the room when this plays. I like my cat a lot more than this CD. Two CDs of experimental noise and random bursts of chaos.

Skullflower – Orange Canyon Mind – Review

April 13, 2005

20 years of “lumbering abstraction” and “freeform, bass-heavy, feedback-driven improv noise rock.” This stuff can be glorious, or like leaving the vacuum on.

Doom Capital – Review

March 7, 2005

Spans four generations of doom from bands. It’s paced well, starts off with a great Clutch tune and continues with new, rare and exclusive tracks

Dataclast vs. The Earwigs – Review

October 22, 2003

Dataclast’s distorto-growl is lanced off old black/grind LPs and synthetic fuzz via DHR’s discography. The Earwigs remind me of “industrial noise” before dance music and arena rock got mixed in it.

Jumbo’s Killcrane – Carnaval de Carne – Review

July 23, 2003

Art punk metal drawing on Touch & Go/AmRep ’80s blithering, grunting rocking units like Butthole Surfers (pre-suck), Killdozer, Helmet, Unsane, and Janitor Joe.

Below The Sound – More Like a Gunshot Than a Car Wreck – Review

January 17, 2003

Below the Sound compact dry nagging riffs with a mechanical rabbit-punch whacking from different angles until you’ve been worked over by a sock fulla golfballs.

Weedeater – Sixteen Tons – Review

January 3, 2003

Weedeater articulates the frustration and despair of being trapped in a mere body of nerves and bone with the modern rock version of the blues: Grinding doom.

Totimoshi – Mysterioso? – Review

January 3, 2003

A classic power trio line-up, they winnow the noise/crank stream of the Touch & Go/Boner/Relapse labels into the cool aspects of wadded-up hard rock.