Articles by Natalie Zina Walschots

Hellbastard

Sons of Bitches

PUBLISHED Nov 20, 2012

UK scene veterans Hellbastard have been active since 1984 and are considered hugely formative to both the crust punk and thrash genres. Aft...

Melencolia Estatica

HEL

PUBLISHED Nov 20, 2012

Black metal is often a solitary pursuit, as there's something about the gelid, tortured song structures and grim, isolationist themes that...

Eyeswithoutaface

Warguts

PUBLISHED Nov 11, 2012

It's fitting that Warguts, which is so conceptually concerned with the physical and emotional horrors of conflict, was released on Remembra...

Womb of the Desert Sun

Where Moths Eat and Worms Destroy

PUBLISHED Nov 8, 2012

Connecticut duo Womb of the Desert Sun are obsessed with the possibilities of low end. Consisting of Chris Grosso on bass and vocals and Mi...

Sofy Major / Uncle Touchy

Sofy Major / Uncle Touchy

PUBLISHED Nov 8, 2012

Having banded together for what they labelled the "Curbstomp Your Enthusiasm Tour," Tennessee noise perverts Uncle Touchy and French engine...

Grails / Pharaoh Overlord

Black Tar Prophecies Volume 5

PUBLISHED Nov 8, 2012

While many splits come to be conceptualized as a coin — two different designs or faces that make up the whole of one object — B...

Nadja

Dagdrøm

PUBLISHED Nov 8, 2012

Of all the adjectives and sub-genres that have been employed to describe Nadja's experimetal, ambient dirge-gaze, "dreamsludge" is most rel...

Dragged into Sunlight Discuss the Misanthropic 'Widowmaker'

PUBLISHED Nov 7, 2012

This week, Liverpool's Dragged into Sunlight released their second full-length, Widowmaker. A fusion of black metal, doom and death metal e...