gospel - the moon is a dead world

Warning: May Contain Screamo.

Gospel ended the way most DIY bands end: unceremoniously. They sort of faded away, after an anti-climactic intra-band fist fight on a lawn after a dumpster-dived vegan buffet house show in a suburban cul-de-sac somewhere in Indiana.

But before that, they were everything. Underground, DIY, musical heirs to Minor Threat, spiritual heirs to Can. One big dysfunctional cocaine fueled road trip of a band, that for some reason I will never understand, I never saw live.

This is a band that was engineered from the smallest molecule up to play in a bar in Greensboro while I drank cheap beer and ignored phone calls from the chef who wanted to know if I could open tomorrow.

But they lacked the emotional equipment to hang together in a squalid van long enough to tour far enough for me to see them, and I will always be disappointed that I never got that chance.

Regardless, this is an album that I have never put on and not listened to all the way through. It's just good rock music.

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Agriculture - Agriculture

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This album answers an incredibly important question: What if Rick Deckard was a goth? A goth replicant that could pass the Voight-Kampff test easily. More importantly, it provides a stunning backdrop to the writing I am supposed to be doing, but keep avoiding. French composer James Kent has always been something of a polarizing figure. Much of his earlier work has been very HOTLINE MIAMI style synthwave. This is most definitely NOT THAT. Instead you a weird robot sex soundtrack - a post-punk mood piece cloaked in goth rock nihilism and sexual malevolence. Gritty, misanthropic, but still atmospheric and ambient, this is some nice stuff! Lustful Sacraments by PERTURBATOR

Dødsferd - Skotos

Raw atmospheric black metal it it's sun soaked Mediterranean best. Wait... That's not right. Oh, but it is. For 20 years, Greece has been the home of Dødsferd since it's beginning as a one-man side project. Now, 10 albums, as many splits and EPs, and five comps, two new songs are available. Packaged with a re-release of the landmark album 'Diseased Remnants of a Dying World', what you have here is the pinnacle of what raw atmo-black can be. A full LP of this would easily be Album of the Year. I can still hope right? Skotos (Atmospheric Black Metal) by DØDSFERD (Greece)

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