Tag Archives: The Body
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ALBUM REVIEW: Sightless Pit’s debut sets the bar for extreme music crossovers
Lingua Ignota, The Body and Full of Hell—three of extreme music’s most exciting projects, are joined at the hip. Over the past decade, The Body has collaborated with Full of Hell twice, Kristin Hayter has sung on the latest The Body and Full of Hell albums, and Hayter’s Caligula featured…
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Max Heilman’s 50 best metal albums of 2019: 20-11
Clockwise from top left: Gatecreeper, Numenorean, False, Abyssal, The Great Old Ones, Russian Circles, Dead To A Dying World, Baroness, Archivist and Uniform & The Body. We’re nearing the end of our dastardly journey! The following records honestly would have made it into my top 10… if the final…
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REVIEW: The Body & Uniform create infectious terror on second collaboration
The last The Body and Uniform collaboration felt like a water test. Rhode Island’s prolific sludge metal weirdos and New York’s industrial upstarts proved they could play well together, but it still needed that extra push to rival The Body’s collaborations with Thou, Krieg and most famously Full of…
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ALBUM REVIEW: Lingua Ignota reaches tortured sublimity with ‘Caligula’
Even a handful of Emperor Caligula’s misdeeds justify the Roman leader’s legacy as an insane tyrant. His decedent sadism undercurrents Kristin Hayter’s latest album as Lingua Ignota. The Rhode Island experimental artist is no stranger to appropriating evil and violence. Infusing death industrial, avant-metal and ritual ambient music with…
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ALBUM REVIEW: Full of Hell diversifies its aural evisceration with ‘Weeping Choir’
Even without considering the band’s landmark collaboration with Merzbow, Full of Hell embodies boundary-pushing insanity like few others. As the quartet has built on its combination of power electronics, grindcore and black metal, the caustic chaos has yielded mixed results with regard to cohesion. Having recently signed with Relapse…
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Kyle Kohner’s top 50 albums of 2018: 50-41
Christine and the Queens perform at Fox Theater in Oakland on Oct. 26, 2018. Photo: Shawn Robbins. It’s the most wonderful time of the year. No, not Christmas. I’m talking end–of–the–year list season. While I enjoyed RIFF editor Max Heilman’s list, it left a strong metallic taste in my mouth.…
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Max Heilman’s Top 50 albums of 2018: 20-11
Kids See Ghosts (Kanye West and Kid Cudi) We’re nearing the end of my top 50 albums list! If you’re just now joining me, check out part one, part two and part three before diving in. Several of these albums would have made it into my top 10 if not for several…
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REVIEW: The Body bludgeons ear drums at The Echo
The Body performs at the Echo in Los Angeles on July 31, 2018. Photos: Max Heilman. LOS ANGELES — Petrifying Portland sludge metal duo The Body brought its decimation to The Echo Tuesday. The performance came as a stark reminder of its primitive foundation, primally executed and terrifyingly brutal.…
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ALBUM REVIEW: The Body burns the rulebook on I Have Fought Against It…
Since releasing “the grossest pop album of all time” in 2016, the members of Portland’s The Body have kept themselves busy with two collaborations with Full of Hell and a self-released mini-album. Even so, the sludge metal interlopers’ cacophonic experimentation remained ornamental, against strangulated cries, crushing riffs and caveman…