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How do you write an 11-minute powerviolence song? How is that possible? As a genre, powerviolence is defined, at least in large part, by its brevity. Bands challenge themselves and each other to come up with short, disorienting bursts of anxiety. A song might be 45 seconds long, and it might switch riffs and tempos three times. The whole point is to keep you on edge, off-kilter. You can’t settle into a groove. The very idea of groove is antithetical to the entire project. But the best powe...

The Richmond, Virginia bass-and-drums duo White Beast are a very new project; they just released their debut single “Fencewalker” a few months ago. If you’ve never heard of them, don’t feel bad; I didn’t know anything about the band until drummer Sam Roberts, also of the excellent metal-punk band Private Hell, told me about them at a Gorilla Biscuits show. But White Beast have already put out their full-length debut Suffering Time, and that shit goes hard.

White Beast are a new Richmond duo who make a grungy, guttural, psychedelic version of sludge-rock on nothing but bass and drums. (Their bandcamp tags include the genre names “post butt rock” and “anarcho buttrock,” both of which are, in my opinion, funny.) Drummer Sam Roberts has played in punk bands like Fried Egg and Private Hell, and I only know about White Beast because he told me about them at a Gorilla Biscuits show on Friday. Singer/bassist Jeffrey Rettberg used t...

Shows such as Selling the OC are set to come to Netflix this month - here’s when

Shows such as Selling the OC are set to come to Netflix this month - here’s when

Here's our monthly rundown of all the horror flicks dropping and departing from your favorite streaming services in May 2022.

Norman J. Warren: the gentleman of English exploitation You’d be hard-pressed to hear a word said against the director of Her Private Hell, Satan’s Slave, Inseminoid, Bloody New Year and other minor triumphs of British sex and horror film. 17 March 2021 Norman J. Warren (right) directing Sarah Keller in Terror (1978) ▶︎ Norman J. Warren’s films Incident, Fragment and Her Private Hell are available to rent on BFI Player. Her Private Hell is also available on BFI du...