FAITHxTRACTOR‘s new death metal full-length may appear “old school” on paper but there are many special moments waiting to be unwrapped. One of these moments occurs at 2:24 on track 2, “Life Abnegation”. Allow me to demonstrate!
Listen to ‘Contempt For A Failed Dimension’ at Bandcamp (Redefining Darkness Records).
SLOG ‘DIVINATION’ DEATH DOOM DANCE REVIEW
My first album cling of 2023 is definitely SLOG. They are my kind of death doom! Creepy slow at times, rockin’ at others. If you enjoyed last year’s ANCIENT DEATH ep, this is especially for you.
Listen to SLOG‘s excellent new album here.
THE BUTTHOLE ALBUM ART AWARDS OF 2022
Welcome to the Butthole Album Art Awards! (BHAAAs)
This is my 6th annual compilation of the best holes each year has to offer. Here are my 40 of 2022:
BOTCH reunited and this metallic BH 🎯 feels so good
[Bandcamp]
AVEL: Partly cloudy with a 100% chance of blinding BH
[Bandcamp]
THANATOPHOBIA and their M.C. Esher BH kingdom
[Bandcamp]
TESKA having the worst migraine ever, in need of extra strength forehole relief
[Bandcamp]
Land, sea, or air: KRIMH can get that BH there
[Bandcamp]
There’s always one goatse every year, thank you for your service SACRAL NIGHT
[Bandcamp]
LIFE/LIMB reinventing the “serpent radius-ulna BH” wheel
[Bandcamp]
The barren BH sun will consume us all
–BEKOR QILISH, 2022
[Bandcamp]
ONLY NOW: All hands on deck
[Bandcamp]
GRAAL: Death carries a scythe and a stained glass cyclops BH
[Bandcamp]
This little ‘BH stomach’ light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine
–THE TEMPLE
[Bandcamp]
DAYS OF DESOLATION: Birth, school, BH, death
[Bandcamp]
NOGOTHULA: Satanic clothespin (lost at sea) BH
[Bandcamp]
TERRA blinding us with cosmic BH dust from this extreme blastoff
[Bandcamp]
MINIPONY and their kaleidoscope BH (always one of these every year too)
[Bandcamp]
PERVERSION: Watch your step!
[Bandcamp]
REVEREND MOTHER didn’t need to draw those tendrils on the crystal ball
[Bandcamp]
SAPRAEMIA latching on with their tractor beam BH (with extra strength coils)
[Bandcamp]
Crater Blast BH by KILL SHELTER
[Bandcamp]
UR and their planetary petri dish BH
[Bandcamp]
Congrats to label CYCLIC LAW and their 20th anniversary sampler BH! (just wow)
[Bandcamp]
FULL OF HELL squeezed out a new EP this year
[Bandcamp]
They are called ANALEPSY after all
[Bandcamp]
AMON ACID droppin’ a wild Ouroboros BH
[Bandcamp]
DENOUNCEMENT PYRE: The Apis BH Burns Bright
[Bandcamp]
Heavy lies the crown by 偏執症者 (Paranoid)
[Bandcamp]
SFEERVERZIEKER: Shanties to steer thy cursed helm to
[Bandcamp]
I’m BH (da ba dee) by ANUBIS
[Bandcamp]
DEMORALIZER: Mission accomplished!
[Bandcamp]
TRUP: Hellooooooooooooooo
[Bandcamp]
HYPOMANIC DAYDREAM / HOMESKIN
Snuffleupagus bids farewell
[Bandcamp]
ASTRAL TOMB named their album ‘Soulgazer’ when ‘Holegazer’ is right there (too easy)
[Bandcamp]
MAIDEN HAIR depicts Venus de BH
[Bandcamp]
KATO and their framed “hot ones”™️ BH
[Bandcamp]
ROTBORN: Independence Day BH
[Bandcamp]
NOLDOR’s falling away from me BH
[Bandcamp]
PRIDELANDS rhapsody in blue (BH)
[Bandcamp]
ABYSMAL DAWN (hey)
[Bandcamp]
HAMMERS OF MISFORTUNE always look to the north BH
[Bandcamp]
MARILLION teaches a lesson in color theory (mostly warm)
[YouTube]
Thanks for tuning in! Happy New Year!
-Justin
JUSTIN’S FAVORITE ALBUMS OF 2022
Here are the albums that moved me the most in 2022!
#10) Writhing Of Earth & Flesh (Everlasting Spew) Bandcamp
#9) Final Eclipse Interminable Darkness (self) Bandcamp
#8) Desecresy Unveil In The Abyss (Xtreem Music) Bandcamp
#7) Gutvoid Durance of Lightless Horizons (Blood Harvest) Bandcamp
#6) Phobophilic Enveloping Absurdity (Prosthetic) Bandcamp
#5) Vacuous Dreams of Dysphoria (Me Saca Un Ojo) Bandcamp
#4) Ancient Death Sacred Vessel (Necroharmonic) Bandcamp
#3) Scalding Exordium (wilt-shine) Bandcamp
#2) Doldrum The Knocking, Or The Story of the Sound that Preceded Their Disappearance (Katafalque) Bandcamp
#1) ULTHA All That Has Never Been True (Vendetta) Bandcamp
LOINS ABLAZE!
Cheers friends! Happy 2023!
-Justin
MY ULTHA DARKWAVE DANCE PROMO 2022
That feeling when ULTHA drops the darkwave song on their 2022 black metal masterpiece, All That Has Never Been True. One of my personal favorites from this year. List season is nearing so be sure to give this one a try if you haven’t!
Bandcamp
I DESTROYED MY FRIENDS IN WORDLE
I won my friends’ WORDLE table this week (for the first time) so I had to drop a reface celebration vid on ’em.
Originally tweeted by justin (@heyimjt) on October 29, 2022.
MY INTERNAL SINGING VOICE: “KOOL THING”
Sonic Youth "Kool Thing" (1990) guitar solo: *exists*
my internal singing voice:
Originally tweeted by justin (@heyimjt) on October 24, 2022.
HAPPY INTERNATIONAL COFFEE DAY
I’m celebrating with my favorite Philadelphia roaster, Suprema Coffee Roastery!
Music: L’Impératrice — VOODOO? (Lazywax remix)
NOW PLAYING: CAVURN ‘REHEARSAL’ (2017)
Imagine naming your release “Rehearsal” and it becomes one of the best death dooms of the past decade. I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve listened to these same 3 songs, same 20 minutes. This is all they have given us, but we can only hope for more because this band is perfection.
Listen here!
CASSETTE J-CARD ARTWORK AND ME
Has this ever happened to you?
You download the new EP from your fav band so you logon to Bandcamp you just want the digital album you don’t want the cassette not that there’s anything wrong with cassettes but when you open it in your media player you still see the cassette artwork?
Listen to TOMB MOLD New EP ‘Aperture Of Body’ @ Bandcamp.
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