Flush It Friday: They Said He Didn’t Have An Itty Bitty In Him
They were wrong.Oh how wrong they were.
The World is a Beautiful Place & I am No Longer Afraid to Die – “Beware the Centrist”
Independent | May 28, 2025
While most of us assumed the cover of Ceremony’s classic “Kersed” was a one-off, it seems to have inspired at least one more track. “Beware the Centrist” sounds ripped right out of early aughts Boston, channeling American Nightmare and Suicide File. Will this be the next album? Who’s to say. It is, however, a great excuse to read Hamilton Nolan’s latest piece “What is Centrism?” In it, he describes Matt Yglesias as someone “who looks with each passing year more like a muttonchopped Civil War general who has been confined to a gaming chair.” This is kismet. This is art.
Beautiful Child of God – Scraping Divinity Demo
Independent | May 12, 2025
Hailing from Birmingham, Alabama, this new quartet have released the death metal demo of the year. What appears at first blush to be a classic case of Entombed-worshipping HM-2 death quickly turns on its ear, gobbling up and spitting out a gleeful array of hardcore, brutal death metal, and slam influences. If you thought Obstruktion needed less melody and more Snuffed on Sight beatdown, then look no further. “Shiver in the Dark” and “Cast from Heaven’s Gate” are the most varied in their approaches, while “Flesh Denied and “Pulverized” are resplendent in their ignorance. “Disinter. Dismember. Remember: you deserve this.”
36 & zaké – Stasis Sounds for Long-Distance Space Travel III
Past Inside the Present | June 3, 2025
In my office Tuesday doing my own research, I floated into the listening room for the third installment of Stasis Sounds. Collecting article after article from the Journal of Animal Ethics, particularly on the ethics—or the lack thereof—in animal research and laboratory settings, I was traveling along frictionlessly through “Final Approach” until the first movement of “Blue New World” eclipsed the horizon and utterly subsumed me in its dawning, radiant splendour. May we all find the soundtracks we need in our various moments and travails. May we all be forced into quiet beatitude by the art of others.
Justice League – Shattered Dreams
Fartblossom Enterprizes | 1986
I missed the announcement last month that California legends Justice League were reuniting for the upcoming Big Frank Memorial in July. Featuring the likes of Chris Bratton (Chain of Strength, Inside Out), Ryan Hoffman (Chain of Strength), and Casey Jones (No For An Answer), Justice League over 5 years released 31 of the most influential hardcore songs of the mid-’80s. You can hear so clearly on tracks like “Chain of Strength” and “Down Again” the sound Gorilla Biscuits would take up on their 1988 debut. It’s moments like these when I wonder why I never tried to live in California.
Animals Revenge – Temporada de homínidos
Fiadh Productions | May 23, 2025
Originally released in 2019, this debut EP just got the Fiadh treatment in vivid slime-green to honour the passing of guitarist Alan García Vega. This is sleazy, crusty, d-beat hardcore that sounds dusted off and resurrected from a thrashed-to-death 1980s. It has the verve and swagger of the world wresting itself from human control. In this new world, your battle vest is your passport, and those band patches are stamps recorded therein of all the times the non-human world let you keep living. “Eco-emancipation will involve certain limitations on us as people,” writes Sharon Krause. You’re goddamned right it will.
Let’s fuckin’ Flush!
Stick Press’d us while Roldy This’d us. We should be so lucky.
Aaron gave us the details on another disappointing record from Pelican.
Diary of Doom is back with a few words about jellyfish and an ocean’s worth of words about Maryland Deathfest 2k25.
Toilet Radio 563 features Joe n Jordan embarking on a new series. The first installment covers something called “death metal.” Sounds stupid!
I dropped an exclusive from the forthcoming Putridity. Chop chop chop.
Exclusive Track Premiere: Putridity’s “In Disgust They Shine”
Delectable Minis from Prof. Guan’, Hans, 365, and Spear. A murderer’s row, if you ask me.
Brock hurt his back 20 years ago, and I guess we have to hear about it now. 5/5 for the new Weeping Sores.
For less than 12 euros, you can buy Roldy this owl-themed Nightwish coin purse. Because 365 has class, he didn’t make a single joke about sacks in the newest Shirt Stains.
You’ll Never Believe This One Track Falxifer Has For Reviewing The New Katatonia.
Review: Katatonia – Nightmares as Extensions of the Waking State
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