2009 was, to be frank, a goddamn good fucking year for music at large. But where I ended up drawing the pick for the top cream of the crop from was out of my past when my all-time favorite band Thrice (who I hadn’t really listened to much since the release of Vheissu in ’07) …
One lazy afternoon I found myself in the digital company of one Lille Gruber, drummer of German brutal death metal titans Defeated Sanity, and the topic of discussion was “balls”. Traditionally, brutal death metal has been the zenith and the bleeding edge of testosterone-soaked music, and with limp releases such as Origin‘s newest release stepping …
When a new album featuring freakish drummer Dave Witte reaches shelves or finds its way onto the wonderful world wide web, I do not even remotely attempt to hide my excitement and anticipation. The man has been involved with almost exclusively A-plus-plus projects, including the late grindcore gods Discordance Axis, the absolutely essential Human Remains …