Articles by Natalie Zina Walschots

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  Ysengrin / Black Grail

  Nigrum Nigrius Nigro Split LP

  PUBLISHED Dec 4, 2015

  Clocking in at a little under 30 minutes, the collaborative effort between the French experimental black and doom metal outfit and Chilean...

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  Muscle Beach

  Muscle Beach

  PUBLISHED Dec 4, 2015

  There is a joy to the self-titled debut from Colorado three-piece Muscle Beach, a particularly gleeful kind of violence that makes listenin...

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  Vision of Disorder

  Razed to the Ground

  PUBLISHED Nov 18, 2015

  After disbanding in 2001 and reuniting in 2008, early hardcore pioneers Vision of Disorder seem to be managing something unusual: a respect...

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  Soupcans

  Soft Party

  PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2015

  Soupcans just keep getting harder and harder, and the more violence they throw around, the more delightful it is. It's been three years sin...

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  Dragged Into Sunlight / Gnaw Their Tongues

  N.V.

  PUBLISHED Nov 11, 2015

  Feeling overwhelmed is a strange emotion. It can be perceived as entirely negative, a smothering too-much-ness devoid of nuance or specific...

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  Vhöl

  Deeper Than Sky

  PUBLISHED Oct 22, 2015

  Individually and within their other projects (the members of Vhöl hail impressively from YOB, Hammers of Misfortune and Agalloch), every me...

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  Myrkur

  M

  PUBLISHED Aug 19, 2015

  The self-titled debut EP by this one-woman Danish black metal project carved a surprisingly deep mark on the landscape of aggressive music...

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  Barrows

  Swine Race

  PUBLISHED Aug 19, 2015

  Hailing from the desolation of Medicine Hat, Alberta, Barrows have channelled some of the harshness of the Canadian prairie landscape into...