MAMMOTH GRINDER
In “Leviathan,” the philosopher Thomas Hobbes famously wrote that the life of man is “nasty, brutish, and short.” And that pretty much sums up the new LP from Austin’s Mammoth Grinder. Extinction of...
View ArticleUNCOVERING HIDDEN GEMS
(Today we’re happy to feature another guest post. This one came to us from NCS reader Rob K., and includes thoughts about some of his recent discoveries among bands both new and not-so-new — plus...
View ArticleSHUFFLE
As much as I like working on this blog, it has changed my listening habits. One of our missions is to stay abreast of song and video premieres and new albums, sifting through the flood of new metal to...
View ArticleTHE CORE-LESS BREAKDOWN: A LIST
(I wish I had thought of this cool idea for a post. But BadWolf beat me to it — and this is his piece.) It’s not news to anyone reading this ( I hope) that heavy metal culture has an elitist streak....
View ArticleFIVE OF MY FAVOURITE… ALBUM COVERS
(Andy Synn returns to his irregular series devoted to things that come in five’s, the focus of this one being metal album art.) The phrase “never judge a book by its cover” was obviously uttered by...
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