Life In The Dark
Hushed Bloom
Sunyata\Music Ruins Lives (2011)
I need to stop listening to this, but, wait, no, I really do because it is getting rather ridiculous repeatedly listening to the same piece of music over again and that is exactly what is going on with Hushed Bloom and my headphones; these tones reverberate inside my head as the warm tones caress my tired brow in an utterly depressing but strangely comforting manner. Life In The Dark’s effort is emblematic of the works already present in its body of work even if the methodology behind the song structures and arrangements are a tiny bit different; this time around, Life In The Dark goes back to the longer form compositions heard on The Sunya Is Rising while being even more droning and numbing and hypnotic than its previous work. The cassette version of Hushed Bloom is a cassette of two sides: one (“Hushed Bloom”), all subtly nightmarish and disturbing without getting loud or overly oppressive and frightening comes complete with a droning female voice which threatens to drag listeners down in to a severely despondent abyss that comes out of a movement that is virtually just percussion and vocal depression while the second side (containing “Comadeth”) is more dream … Read more
Voice Of Ruin
Self Titled
Heimathome (2011)
Believe me, I love oldschool thrash metal as much as the next person--give me early Metallica or Death any day … Read more
Future Virgins
Western Problems
StarCleaner\Plan-it-X South (2011)
2011 saw me getting deeper into garage bands. What better way to close out my year than with Future Virgins, … Read more
Dead to Me
Moscow Penny Ante
Fat Wreck Chords (2011)
After listening to Dead To Me’s latest release Moscow Penny Ante it made me think about something bassist/vocalist Chicken said … Read more
