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California Love, Cryptic Passages, doom metal, hardcore, Hollow, Selfish Ways, Sludge Metal, The Wrath
“It’s all in the hips.” – Happy Gilmore, 1996
Welcome to the eleventh edition of Cryptic Passages, a weekly hopefully-weekly column in which I, Eric Nguyen, will be presenting for your torture, some of the most brutal, unrelenting, and hate drenched pieces of audio I’ve found journeying through the misanthropic plains of the internet. This week’s special re-summoning of the Cryptic Passages column brings with it a local focus, on bands from my neck of this circle of hell, Southern California. For now, I return to my place on the altar of sacrifice and offer you three fresh kills…after the jump. Continue reading »
Fucking incredible. That’s what I thought about Alice In Chains‘ first single off of their new album The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here. When “Hollow” was released, I was taken aback, for I had not even dabbled in the band’s previous album Black Gives Way To Blue. I fell in love with “Hollow” and now I have fallen for another new song called “Stone.” 
In December of 2011 I won a contest on MetalSucks.net. The prizes were incredible and two of the CDs I discovered in the 200+ stack I got stuck with me to this very day. Those albums were the Sofy Major/Membrane split album and Sofy Major‘s Permission To Engage. 
It takes a lot for me to like clean vocals riding over heavy music. I mean a lot. The band has to be pretty spectacular for me to let clean vocals ride even if it’s only every once in a while on an album. I have granted leniency to some bands like Holy Grail and As I Lay Dying and now I will be worshiping the awe-inspiring music that comes from Canada’s Anciients. This band came out of nowhere for me. I have never heard a single thing about them until their album came to me. I was initially very concerned that it would be something that I would not enjoy. I pressed play and I was instantly proven wrong. 
While performing at Lollapalooza in Brazil, stoner rockers Queens Of The Stone Age were caught playing a new track called “My God Is The Sun.” The song is pretty cool, but I know a lot of Queens fans, like me, ache for the return to Songs For The Deaf days. This ain’t that, but it also ain’t bad at all. 
I fucking adore Cathedral. How could you not love a band this 
Fucking Howl, man. This band is amazing. I love love love love these dudes. I’ve been jamming on their new album Bloodlines for a week or so now and one track that really stands out to me is the brute force aggressor “Attrition.” What’s that? You want a taste? Just the tip? Fuck the tip, you can get the whole thing, kiddos. 
Man,
A few weeks ago 
Remember that 
