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Tag: Metal
Moo Kid’s Irish Bandcamp Weekly
Digging through bandcamp.com for the best in Irish underground sounds — this week fro leftfield electronics to headbutt grindcore. Animal Party Toronto-based Dubliner Sinead Bermingham is a producer and multi-instrumentalist whose creations are teeming with […]
‘Grief wrongs us so’: The Body – A Lament
The Body don’t leave you guessing too hard with their album and track titles. Previous album titles include: I Shall Die Here; No One Deserves Happiness; Mental Wounds Not Healing, and the Sylvia Plath-referencing I […]
All the right noises: Third quarter 2020
Now that’s what I call another three months of the dystopian Massive Multiplayer Online game that is 2020.
All the right noises: February & March 2019 in 20 tracks
From long-form ritual ambient, to sick Finnish grindcore, to Japanese brain-fry hip-hop and a love song to an ancient sea sponge living on a dying coral reef, here’s a selection of the best music from […]
All the right noises: October 2018 in 20 tracks
UUUU – Electric Blanket (from s/t EP) UUUU’s debut s/t was one of Moo Kid’s albums of 2017, and the follow-up EP takes the experimental project into further slithery territories. The four U’s are Graham […]
Real metal machine music: Author & Punisher – Beastland
The term industrial music evokes plenty of gut reactions, from the avant-garde nihilism of Throbbing Gristle to the crossover thrash headbutts of Psalm 69-era Ministry. But in the wrong hands it’s vaguely goth metal with […]
Gruth interview: ‘This is music born of intense personal experiences’
Gruth is an artist whose style has been hard to pin down over his three releases on the Brazilian experimental label Tormenta Electrica. Finnish producer Juha Puuperä brings a black metal aesthetic to his dark […]
Never Reigns but it pours: Slayer going down fighting on last tour
Metal fans have recently been wearing extra black for mourning after thrash gods Slayer announced their retirement — but they’re going out with a hell of a headbang on their final tour. After 37 years […]
Relentless despair: The Body’s I Have Fought Against It, But I Can’t Any Longer
The Body’s Chip King maybe has the most terrifying howl of anyone in metal’s outer limits. True, extreme black metal acts like Gnaw their Tongues and Jute Gyte are polluting Bandcamp with their brilliant festering […]
All the right noises: April 2018 in 21 tracks
Aside from Kanye’s #MAGA hat, last month was brought to you by abstract hip-hop, hypnotic house, cosmic lounge music, darkwave pop, voodoo techno and black metal ultraviolence. Playlist below… 1. lojii – Six9 (lofeye LP) […]
21-tune salute: February 2018 playlist
Apart from blizzards and broken resolutions, February was brought to you by nervy electronics, hip-hop, battered rock, depraved noise and plenty of soothing ambience to offset all of the above. 1. Factory Floor – Heart […]
Irish gigs round-up
CELEBRATING DAVID BOWIE: Olympia Theatre, Dublin, Monday Dublin went headlong into a Bowie wormhole last week, with tribute shows, lectures, exhibitions and stage plays as part of the Dublin Bowie Festival, – but we’re not done just […]
Moo Kid’s 2017 in 25 albums
This time last year we were begging for 2016 to hurry up and finish, oblivious to the cesspit round the corner. Luckily we have all these album lists to remind us of the year’s artistic […]
Irish gigs round-up
BORIS… Limelight 2, Belfast, Wednesday Experimental metal band Boris are one of Japan’s most famous avant-garde exports, with over 40 releases since 1996, ranging from heavy psychedelia to doom metal and noise. Their underground credentials are boosted […]
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