Monthly Archives: April 2008

Team Fortress 2 update pain

Medic achievements I’ve been getting back into TF2 recently, and all was going well. I was taking a break from my usual class of Pyro and racking up some good experience as a medic, that is until Valve dropped the … Continue reading

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Mario Kart Wii

A short review here of Mario Kart Wii. First of all, let me state that I am a Mario Kart fan, I have played and enjoyed every single Mario Kart game thus far (excluding the rare arcade versions). It’s important … Continue reading

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Pseudo-Grail excerpt

Don’t ask. “Thorn’s abscess to a disjunction; In tension I exclaim!” thralled the shaped dark being that defeats me to name, “In decision to perform, too shrill. Thus carry a carved ire shown for my becoming.” I returned, “Bellowed one, … Continue reading

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Deep Space Underwear

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Further Asphixiations (and other pastimes for children)

So,  work is sort of underway (at a relaxed pace, when I’m not busy with other stuff) on a project I aim to finish this summer, another Asphixiator release, this time a 2CD concept called Homophonies. For those who don’t … Continue reading

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Hrsta – Stem Stem in Electro

Yet another old unpublished review. The first line is now inaccurate, after having reviewed the latest Silver Mt. Zion. This may be the first review of a Constellation records release on thegrotto, but it’s far from my first Constellation record. … Continue reading

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Khanate – Things Viral

So I’ve been listening to a lot of doom and drone recently. Sunn O))) are of course hugely important in the genre, but I’ve also moved off into other areas of the genre, more traditional Doom and of course this … Continue reading

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Ruins – Tzomborgha

Another ancient review never published. Ruins. How on Earth could this band actually exist? This is a band made up of a bassist and a drummer, and yet, there’s clearly a guitarist. Isn’t there? No there isn’t, that’s the bassist. … Continue reading

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Meshuggah – Nothing

This review was written about an age ago, but I never got round to uploading it to the old site because it was a pain to do so, and I’m lazy. Meshuggah are a really rather impressive and technical metal … Continue reading

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Boris – Flood

Flood by Boris is an album that the vast majority of the world would never even consider listening for one simple reason. It is 70 minutes of the same song. It is indexed on the CD into four tracks, but … Continue reading

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