Articles by Natalie Zina Walschots

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  Cattle Decapitation

  Parc Jean-Drapeau, Montreal QC, August 7

  PUBLISHED Aug 8, 2015

  Deep in the forest of Parc Jean-Drapeau, Cattle Decapitation dragged something ugly and writhing into the world. Playing on the day that th...

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  Neurosis

  Parc Jean-Drapeau, Montreal QC, August 7

  PUBLISHED Aug 8, 2015

  Neurosis are trying to hurt you, badly. There is an extraordinary amount of beauty, and tenderness, and fragile, shivering joy in their mus...

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  Windhand / Olde / Familiars

  The Garrison, Toronto ON, July 31

  PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2015

  It's always delightful to be surprised by an opening band, and the heavy stoner rock outfit Familiars did an excellent job catching their a...

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  Locrian

  Infinite Dissolution

  PUBLISHED Jul 22, 2015

  For ten years, the experimental, blackened drone outfit Locrian have revelled in being a difficult entity to find down. Equal parts flesh a...

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  Hope Drone

  Cloak of Ash

  PUBLISHED Jul 22, 2015

  Few bands embody their names as beautifully as Australia's Hope Drone. Combining the bleak loveliness of post-black metal with the oceanic...

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  Goat Torment

  Sermons of Death

  PUBLISHED Jul 22, 2015

  For all its necrotic weirdness as a genre, one thing black metal rarely suffers from is an identity crisis. From the commitment to raw prod...

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  Immortal Bird

  Empress/Abscess

  PUBLISHED Jul 14, 2015

  It was late in 2013 that Chicago-based experimental blackened sludge outfit Immortal Bird released their debut EP Akrasia, a shattering and...

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  BlackQueen

  The Directress

  PUBLISHED Jul 8, 2015

  BlackQueen is something like a comet that only appears every few years, foretelling either great triumph or tragedy, portending the death o...