Disgusting, dissonant, raw sludge-drone-death from Baltimore. True sounds of despair and malevolence from the B-more underground. Oak starte...

UK industrial metal/hardcore. Thrash-y punk riffs, gated drums, distorted vocals, sample-heavy industrial atmosphere. Track listing: 1. Drai...

I live in Portland, OR. Some of you may have heard of it. In fact, some of you may have heard, on the news and from the highest office in ou...

Related: Svart - Våran tid är förbi (2009) Acacia - Tills Döden Skiljer Oss Åt (2013) A deep, echoing pit of droning, patience-testing DSBM...

Classic late 90s screamo/hardcore. Listened to this LP twice in a row on Saturday while doing one million pushups, still hits. There was a m...

Two of my dearest friends, along with my beautiful wife, never gave My Bloody Valentine a chance, and they all had the same reason: they tho...

Here's a fucking weird noisy abstract techno-ish album for you to have an existential crisis to. Track listing: 1. Jax 57 Or Jist BGIU 2...

I honestly thought that I was maybe done with this blog, but I just went to share a link to listen to this and I couldn't immediately fi...

Previously on OPIUM HUM: Lol Coxhill & Morgan Fisher - Slow Music (1980) Beautiful, shimmering ambient sounds for sunny days. Real ones...

Grind-y straight edge hardcore. I first discovered Monster X back in high school via their split with Spazz, when I was still young enough t...

If I'm checking out a band that I've heard described as "neoprog/prog metal", this is what I am hoping they will sound lik...

Related: Beatrik - Journey Through the End of Life (2002) Tenebrae in Perpetuum - Onori Funebri Rituali (2003) Tenebrae in Perpetuum - L...

These New Puritans really had an extraordinary first-3-album arc, moving from post-punk revival to percussive art rock to experimental chamb...

Unsurprisingly, I've been tripping down musical memory lane. This comp is a real formative punk classic for me that I've somehow man...

Not to sound like a broken record but: my friend died. No, not that one; a different one. Pat. The person who in middle school introduced me...