Dystopia’s classic “Human = Garbage” LP is a tempest of life’s worst frustrations incarnate: a living, breathing storm fueled by societal oppression and futility. This album paints for its listeners an all-too-familiar image of day-to-day misery, and touches on themes of poverty, hopelessness, and suicide. The introductory monologue of “Stress Builds Character” sets up the … Continue reading “Human = Garbage” – Dystopia
Infection
My sincerest apologies go out to anyone who has been following this site for the last week or so; I've been in and out of the hospital with a horrendous infection in my right arm, which has gotten into my elbow joint. I've had a PICC line put in and must take IV antibiotics each … Continue reading Infection
Night People: Prologue
"Night People" is a series I'm working on about the various denizens of the dark and dismal streets I've run into whilst roaming America's forgotten backwoods highways and byways, and urban areas both before and after I became an addict myself. Each of these stories is true and is a portrait of someone I met … Continue reading Night People: Prologue
Night People I: A Living Ghost
The dark stretches out into forever, night’s infinite veil seeps across the sky, draped over the trees on either side of the highway in that ghostlike way that sheets cover furniture in the homes of the recently deceased; dual walls of towering black leviathans closing in on either side of the asphalt, split by reflective … Continue reading Night People I: A Living Ghost
“Zero Devil” – Cloak of Altering
Maurice "Mories" de Jong delivers yet another horrendous offering with Cloak of Altering's "Zero Devil". Each track is thoroughly bathed in a grit of electronic noise and seething guitar, and Mories' half rasped, half howled vocals. Eerie bits of spoken word are heard here and again, as in parts of "Tired Drones Scan the Seas" … Continue reading “Zero Devil” – Cloak of Altering
“You Can’t Fall Off the Floor”
I don't remember the last time I shot up. I do, however, remember the first. I couldn't do it myself -yet- so my girlfriend did it for me. Left arm, main pipe, powder. I remember the sting of the needle like yesterday. I savored it, and the release that followed. My eyes widened and a … Continue reading “You Can’t Fall Off the Floor”
“Terminal Aggressor” -Dragged Into Sunlight
A staggering, mind-bending effort, Dragged Into Sunlight's "Terminal Aggressor" is positively seething with misanthropy. Challenging, yet alluring, this is the soundtrack to a serial killer's psyche. It takes a special kind of lunatic to really appreciate this sort of thing. Terminal Aggressor is pulsating, thrumming and ready to burst like a bloated dog carcass rotting … Continue reading “Terminal Aggressor” -Dragged Into Sunlight
8/20/2018-Blog
Today marks the official launch date of this site, and I couldn't be happier to finally be committing to this project. That said, it's important for me to reflect on this time last year, as during this period in 2017, I was still badly addicted to smoking and shooting crack. My fiance` and I had … Continue reading 8/20/2018-Blog
“A World Lit Only By Fire”-Godflesh
This monolithic slab of crushing industrial metal was seen by many as a return to Streetcleaner-era Godflesh. This album is a sprawling dystopian hell-scape, brooding and formidable, impossible to traverse unscathed by its rage. Its undeniable heaviness peaks in its outro, "Forgive Our Fathers"; minimalistic and repetitive, but nonetheless soul-grinding riffs produce the effect of … Continue reading “A World Lit Only By Fire”-Godflesh
“For All Slaves… A Song of False Hope”
This was the first Gnaw Their Tongues album I ever purchased, and represents a gloom-swept, gut-churning descent into the deepest pits of humanity's dark subconscious. From the abysmal eponymous introduction to its vitriolic climax, "For All Slaves..." is like the lingering odor of a suicide's voided bowels: even after all the bits and pieces are … Continue reading “For All Slaves… A Song of False Hope”
Towers of Rust 