Monthly Archives: November 2011

Surachai-To No Avail Surachai’s latest release, To No Avail, is one off those releases you really need to let sink in. The first listen will reveal an innovative and challenging black metal album, but on further inspection, the songs reveal themselves to be full … Continue reading →

Handshake Inc. injects exciting new blood into extreme metal with Surachai, TSTAT November 18th, 2011 We have an exciting new record label in our midst, but it’s a name you’ve probably heard before if you’re way down in the gutters of … Continue reading →

Handshake Inc Announce Third Release as a Label: The Sun Through a Telescope’s “Summer Darkyard” Handshake Inc. is super stoked to announce their third release as a label: a three-song single called “Summer Darkyard” by Ottawa’s The Sun Through a … Continue reading →

Sulaco – Build and Burn (Handshake Inc.) Progressive/grind/thrash dudes Sulaco are almost out of this world. In James Cameron’s Aliens the U.S.S. Sulaco is a great, hulking, dangerous-looking vehicle full of testosterone and deadly aggression. As well as sharing a name, much … Continue reading →

Earlier this year, Lake Of Blood delivered As Time And Tide Erode Stone, its two-very-long-songs saga. Structurally, Surachai’s To No Avail seems similar. Comprising a pair of 10-minute-plus tracks, the Chicago band’s new disc also traffics in sustained, Deathspell Omega-style blasts of bleakness and … Continue reading →

By Laina Dawes The New Yorker recently annoyed metal fans with their observations on the U.S. black metal scene ― there’s inevitably some ire when a mainstream publication tries to explain an extreme musical genre. However, while the writer did an okay … Continue reading →

By Laina Dawes Fronted by Brutal Truth axeman Erik Burke, who shows off his vocal skill, as well as his guitar prowess, Build and Burn is a flurry of technical wizardry with deep roots in grindcore and a punk ethos. Stepping away … Continue reading →

Man oh man, do we have an awesomely weird one for you today. To our delight, Jucifer asked us to premiere their new video, for the song “Hiroshima,” and we can pretty guarantee you that you haven’t seen a metal … Continue reading →

SULACO BUILD & BURN GENRE: PROGRESSIVE TECHNICAL DEATH METAL FORMAT:VINYLTRACKS:7 LABEL:HANDSHAKE INC. YEAR:2011 While SULACO‘s full length debut, TEARING THROUGH THE ROOTS was a solid slab of technical death metal, the band’s follow-up, 2011′s BUILD & BURN takes the band’s sound to a whole new … Continue reading →

Sulaco are an insane grinding band from New York. I wouldn’t exactly call them a grindcore band. No, they are much more than that. Incorporating elements of death metal and progressive metal into their sound makes theirs unique. I have … Continue reading →