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Crucial Listening #75: Mathieu Ball (BIG|BRAVE)

Crucial Listening #75: Mathieu Ball (BIG|BRAVE)

Drumsticks into sawdust, ripping off Harvey Milk, going crazy for the Blind Owl. The BIG|BRAVE guitarist discusses three important albums. Mathieu’s picks: Rockets Red Glare – S/T Harvey Milk – A Small Turn Of Human Kindness Blind Owl Wilson – S/T The latest BIG|BRAVE album, Vital is out

Review: Noothgrush + Coffins - Split

Midway through Noothgrush, I feel like I’m trying to walk uphill in chainmail. Each step is a very deliberate upheave of flesh and iron, and each subsequent stomp is an ecstatic relief in gravity and fracturing impact; a constant cycle of agonising muscular retraction and gushes of euphoric alleviation,

Review: Earth - Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II

Despite a year standing between the release of each part, this second instalment of Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light was actually recorded in the same two-week session as the first. So it’s no surprise that the same minimal instrument palette returns: ideas and momentum are passed and expanded

Interview: Greg Anderson (Sunn 0))), Goatsnake)

So how did the writing process work for 00 Void? What we decided to do for this one was for each person to bring in an idea, and then actually hash it out in the studio. So there wasn’t really any prior rehearsal – it was really just about getting

Review: Winter - Into Darkness

It seems fitting that Into Darkness gets a re-release on Southern Lord – if you’re not sure why, opening instrumental “Oppression Freedom Oppression” should spell it out nicely for you. The slow-motion guitar chord changes, the tumbling snare fills, the dismal and spiralling atmospheric pads…Winter wouldn’t sound out