Articles by Bradley Zorgdrager

Cruciamentum

Charnel Passages

PUBLISHED Sep 2, 2015

Death metal is the music of, well, death. The thing is, it often fails to capture the terrifying nature of being killed, sounding like the...

Pissgrave Talk 'Suicide Euphoria' and Its "Whirlwinds of Aimless Destruction"

PUBLISHED Aug 28, 2015

To call Pissgrave anything but death metal would be a mistake. While their genre-dictated peers often have one foot in other sounds —...

Melvins to Release Long-Lost Collaboration with Mike Kunka via Sub Pop

PUBLISHED Aug 26, 2015

After 17 years, the Melvins will finally release an album they started in 1998 with Mike Kunka, bassist of noise rock duo godheadSilo. "We...

The Devil Wears Prada

Space EP

PUBLISHED Aug 19, 2015

It's hard for a metal band to capture the sound of a zombie apocalypse, as the Devil Wears Prada attempted to do with 2010's Zombie EP; to...

Extinction A.D.

Faithkiller

PUBLISHED Aug 19, 2015

If you've seen any of the documentaries on it, you know that thrash metal, at least in its early days, was about fun. The hybrid of the NWO...

Bullet For My Valentine

Venom

PUBLISHED Aug 12, 2015

The fallout from the "New Wave of (American) Heavy Metal" is still around. When the nu metal-killing strain proved successful, major labels...

Cattle Decapitation

The Anthropocene Extinction

PUBLISHED Aug 5, 2015

With every album they release, Cattle Decapitation shatter expectations; this time around, the shards have seemingly lodged themselves in T...

Pissgrave

Suicide Euphoria

PUBLISHED Aug 5, 2015

Some things just shouldn't be committed to tape; they're too dark to be inflicted upon the world. Exhibit A: Pissgrave's Suicide Euphoria,...