music blog
D.U. interviewed Mick Harris about Scorn back in 1994 (posted on the blog), and took the opportunity to ask about another one of his bands, Painkiller. D.U.: Are you still Continue reading Painkiller interview with Mick Harris: From the Vault
Scorn has been getting a lot of spins at the D.U. desk lately, so it’s a good time to clean up an old Scorn interview, and add some detail, from Continue reading Scorn interview with Mick Harris: From the Vault
Being a Napalm Death freak, D.U. used to be a frequent browser of Twisting the Knife (Slowly), a fan site from the 2000s run by Joachim Ghirotti that featured an intriguing Continue reading Early Napalm Death: old-school content from long-dead fan site
Mick Harris will be known to longtime fans of the grindcore genre. He played on the first several Napalm Death records and went on to play in Painkiller and Scorn Continue reading Mick Harris is back with a new album: Fret
One of our favorite bands is Voivod, so we’re glad to hear about new releases and new tours. Post Society, coming out on Century Media next month, is a long-playing Continue reading New Voivod EP and a new tour
Back in 2013, a bunch of Brazilian record labels (Terceiro Mundo Chaos Discos, Cianeto Discos, Zuada Records, Contra-mão Records, Cipreste Negro Records, Old Grindered Days Records, Equivokke Records) teamed up and Continue reading Circling back to a couple Napalm Death tribute albums: comments from Barney Greenway
For years environmentalists have been sounding the alarm on the damage that construction of the Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline would cause. Congress recently sent a bill forcing approval of Continue reading Artists and musicians sign open letter to Obama
Voivod and Napalm Death—along with Black Crown Initiate, Iron Reagan, and Exhumed—are on tour in the States on a thing called the “Through Space and Grind Tour” and played Baltimore Continue reading Voivod and Napalm Death, through space and grind: video
We last talked about Usurpress in our review of two of the Swedes’ records. Here, the guys deliver another helping of old school, no-nonsense death metal. They call themselves “death Continue reading Usurpress / Bent Sea split CD
For those who aren’t in the know, Excruciating Terror was a hateful grindcore band from L.A. The band gigged and recorded the albums Expression of Pain and Divided We Fall Continue reading Excruciating Terror reuniting for L.A. gig