Archive for the Southern Lord Category
Sunn O))) “White 2” (Southern Lord)
Sunn O))) have reissued their two White albums in high fidelity vinyl format. Originally released in 2003 and 2004 respectively, White 1 and White 2 were actually conceived as acoustic albums. But as Sunn O))) co-founders Stephen O’Malley and Greg Anderson note, the outcome of the recording sessions at Oregon’s […]
Sunn O))) “White 1” (Southern Lord)
, Sunn O))) have reissued their two White albums in high fidelity vinyl format. Originally released in 2003 and 2004 respectively, White 1 and White 2 were actually conceived as acoustic albums. But as Sunn O))) co-founders Stephen O’Malley and Greg Anderson note, the outcome of the recording sessions at […]
Axis of Despair “Contempt for Man” (Southern Lord)
Axis of Despair features former and present members of such bands as Nasum, Coldworker, Infanticide, Volturyon, Livet som insats, Nervgift and Overtorture. To be exact: The band was formed by former Coldworker members Anders Jakobson (drums), Oskar Pålsson (bass) and Joel Fornbrant (vocals) in the end of 2013. About half […]
Baptists “Beacon of Faith” (Southern Lord)
Beacon Of Faith broadly follows the same trajectory as the album’s predecessors, Bushcraft (2013) and Bloodmines (2014) – combining raw adrenaline-fuelled emotion, venomous vocal delivery, gigantic guitar sound, and a visceral rhythmic propulsion – a sonic manifestation of desolate rage, bolstered by a palpable sense of urgency. Beacon Of Faith […]
Scream “NMC17” (Southern Lord)
A seminal album of the 1980s DC Punk sound, the album was the first to feature drummer Dave Grohl, who replaced Stax for the album, and stayed with the band until they disbanded in 1990. This was the first ever album the now world famous musician ever played on. Since […]
Agrimonia “Awaken” (Southern Lord)
Awaken arrives ten years since the release of their first album, and AGRIMONIA has evolved notably over that period. Their sound has always been dense, immersive, ambitious even, and on Awaken, the band has evolved their prog-infused form of expansive metal into something energetic, dynamic, and powerful. On Awaken, the […]
Magma “Retrospektïw” (Southern Lord)
The first 10 years of Magma were celebrated on three memorable evenings in June 1980 at the Olympia theatre in Paris. This retrospective, reuniting most of the musicians who had performed in the group, was issued as two albums, Retrospektïẁ 1 / 2 (double) and Retrospektïẁ 3 (single). Issued first, […]
Centuries “The Lights of This Earth Are Blinding” (Southern Lord)
Centuries’ second album on Southern Lord. “The Lights Of This Earth Are Blinding is a dark album that carries a theme of constant self-doubt. It follows how we choose to accept our loses and the reaction to life, as well as the journey we take to make peace with the demons […]
Sect “No Cure For Death” (Southern Lord)
Sophomore album from Hardcore supergroup Sect. Sect consists of vocalist Chris Colohan (Cursed, Burning Love, Left for Dead), guitarists James Chang (Catharsis, Undying) and Scott Crouse (Earth Crisis, the Path of Resistance), bassist Steve Hart (Day of Suffering), and drummer Andy Hurley (Racetraitor, Fall Out Boy, the Damned Things) The […]
Kohti Tuhoa ”Pelon Neljäs Valtakunta” (Southern Lord)
Kohti Tuhoa’s debut was considered by many as the most exciting hardcore punk record out of Scandinavia in ages. Their sophomore album Pelon neljäs valtakunta is constructed from similar building blocks but with the band’s sound taking a step further towards genre classicists such as Discharge and Disorder, not to […]
YOB “Great Cessation” (Southern Lord)
2009 album from the reunited cosmic Doom Metal band. One of the heaviest and most respected bands in Metal, Yob are renowned for their unique brand of epic, crushing sludge doom. Founded in 1996 in Eugene, Oregon, the band developed a reputation as the heaviest Doom Metal three-piece ever alongside […]
All Pigs Must Die “Hostage Animal” (Southern Lord)
All Pigs Must Die are far more than the sum of their parts, and their fusion of crust punk, hard core and metal is more ferocious than ever before.
Big Brave “Ardor” (Southern Lord)
A beautiful album of sheer power, delicate restraint, and beautiful swells into enormous sounds. What these three can create is never short of staggering.As with their previous release, Ardor was recorded a the Hotel2Tango, this time by Radwan Ghazi Moumneh (of Jerusalem In My Heart). Jessica Moss (Thee Silver Mt […]
Wolfbrigade “Run With The Hunted” (Southern Lord)
WOLFBRIGADE’s Run With The Hunted surges with ten brutalizing new tracks which elevate both the harsh intensity and the melodic attributes of the band’s patented, penetrating, d-beat-ridden hardcore crust punk to new extremes of infectious viciousness. A concentrated sense of urgency lines the entire record, while a fragmented sense of […]
Power Trip “Nightmare Logic” (Southern Lord)
The second crushing, soul mangling, neck bustin’ album from Texas hardcore thrashers: Power Trip. Quite possibly the best thrash album you will have heard in the last decade. IMMENSE, MAMMOTH, MASSIVE. Recorded by Arthur Rizik (Inquisition), mastered by Joel Grind (Poison Idea, Toxic Holocaust) and features cover art by Paolo […]
Sleep “The Clarity” (Southern Lord)
2017 release, the first studio album by the stoner/doom rock trio in nearly 20 years. Active during the 1990s, Sleep earned critical and record label attention early in it’s career. Critic Eduardo Rivadavia describes them as “perhaps the ultimate stoner rock band” and notes they exerted a strong influence on […]
Ruin “He-Ho/Fiat Lux” (Southern Lord)
Southern Lord are extremely pleased to be reviving the music of Philadelphia’s lost punk heroes, Ruin. Long considered a treasured local delicacy of the city’s earlier hardcore scene, Ruin released two albums during their original run, 1984’s He-Ho and 1986’s Fiat Lux, both of which are combined for this release. […]
Wolfpack “A New Dawn Fades” (Southern Lord)
The record before us today, however, needs to be divorced from the listless, sorry context of the band’s later trajectory. A New Dawn Fades is in every way the equal of more celebrated metal-hardcore hybrids like Integrity’s Those Who Fear Tomorrow, Crow’s Bloody Tear, or the Cro-Mags’ Age of Quarrel. […]
Goatsnake “Black Age Blues” (Southern Lord)
“Black Age Blues” is an instant classic, with each one of the nine songs an anthem, and each of the four members of GOATSNAKE in top form. Everything is magnified; Pete Stahl’s vocals have never sounded so good, the rhythm section comprised of Greg Rogers on drums and Scott Renner […]
Earth “HEX; or Printing in the Infernal Method” 2xLP (Southern Lord)
Bands like Black Sabbath and the Melvins made it OK to “drone” within the realm of heavy metal, but this approach wasn’t fully explored until Earth hit the scene in the early ’90s. Led by guitarist Dylan Carlson, what sets the band apart from the rest of the doom metal […]