Articles by Natalie Zina Walschots

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  Trap Them

  Blissfucker

  PUBLISHED Jun 10, 2014

  If there is a musical equivalent to the film genre New French Extremity, characterized by body horror and grotesque violence, it is the com...

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  Tombs

  Savage Gold

  PUBLISHED Jun 10, 2014

  Blackened and sludge-laden, New York-based Tombs' 2011 sophomore effort Path of Totality seemed an aesthetic-defining record, the sort of w...

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  The Atlas Moth

  The Old Believer

  PUBLISHED Jun 10, 2014

  Chicago gravediggers the Atlas Moth struck gold with their sophomore effort, An Ache For The Distance, a compositionally vast and emotional...

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  WolfCop

  Lowell Dean

  PUBLISHED Jun 5, 2014

  WolfCop (a film about a werewolf that's also a cop) is one of those movies that are awesome simply for existing. The work is almost entirel...

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  The Great Sabatini

  Dog Years

  PUBLISHED Jun 3, 2014

  Indefatigable road warriors, the battle-tested and Montreal-based the Great Sabatini have delivered a crushing blow with their latest effor...

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  Ruins / Usnea

  Split

  PUBLISHED Jun 3, 2014

  This is an unusual pairing for a split EP. Portland's Usnea are known for their crushingly depressive doom, laden with funeral ceremony and...

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  Mares of Thrace's

  Thérèse Lanz

  PUBLISHED Jun 2, 2014

  The baritone guitar Thérèse Lanz plays in Calgary, AB-based noise/doom project Mares of Thrace is one of the most distinctive musical instr...

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  Metsatöll

  Karjajhut

  PUBLISHED May 27, 2014

  Prolific Estonian folk metallers Metsatöll have something rare in the folk metal scene: no one else sounds like them. They always place fol...