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Visceral, volatile and spewing venom in all directions, LPBYG was, undeniably (and probably purposefully) a little bit all over the place, but still managed to retain just enough cohesion to stop it all flying apart at the seams… while still feeling like it might do so at any given moment. The band’s recently-released second album, We Are Always Alone, by contrast, may be a little less feral than its predecessor, but it’s still a wild, whiplash-inducing ride, make no mistake, whose er...

Andrew Reesen and guitarist/vocalist Andy Schoengrund) “deal in a gritty, gruesomely groovesome brand of Black ‘n’ Roll which has, over the years, also developed an increasingly savage-yet-sombre (not to mention ever-so-slightly proggy) edge to it”. The latest record in their discography as it existed at the time of Andy’s retrospective was the 2020 album Life Vapor, which he characterized as Feral Light‘s “darkest record yet”, a “more refined and more atmosphere-heavy alb...

Just after last Thanksgiving Day, our man Andy Synn wrote combined reviews here of the three EPs released in 2020 by Holy Death, who describe themselves as “three piece death doom out of the Nevada desert by way of Los Angeles”. Those EPs — Supreme Metaphysical Violence, Celestial Throne ov Grief, and Deus Mortis — revealed a multi-faceted and evolving approach, with the most recent of those EPs demonstrating that (in Andy‘s words) “the band continue to (somehow) get even harsh...