Total Vibration

Hi. I'm Lars Gotrich. I do a lot of things for NPR Music. I enjoy metal, fun-killer noise, effusively joyful pop music and beer. Sometimes I make mixtapes as DJ Gold Locks.
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johndarnielle:

acrosseight-dimensions:

This is beautiful D:

home taping is thrilling music

I like how Dark Angel gets top billing in a split with Megadeth.

johndarnielle:

acrosseight-dimensions:

This is beautiful D:

home taping is thrilling music

I like how Dark Angel gets top billing in a split with Megadeth.

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Midnight,
HELLS HEADBANGERS - Compilation Vol. 6

Don’t know Hells Headbangers? Then you should download this totally free 20-song comp of pure evil, featuring all new songs by Midnight, Witch Cross, Profanatica and Impiety.

I wish these Heavy Metal Parking Lot trading cards were real.

nprmusic:

The guitars on Deafheaven’s aching, nine-minute “Dream House” sound like classic U2, with a caustic Mogwai-like coda. It’s the sound of a metal band expanding within its reach, with an open ear dedicated not to what always comes next, but what will remain.

Hear “Dream House” now.

A massive step up for these dudes.

nprmusic:

Ever walked into a nearly pitch-black room after roasting on sun-beaten asphalt, only to sweat it out with a host of the moshing unwashed? No? But what if candles were involved — would that make it classier?

Watch experimental U.K. doom-metal band Dragged Into Sunlight’s skin-crawling, multi-sensory set from Maryland Deathfest: The Movie III.

Boil dem angels.

nprmusic:

Ever walked into a nearly pitch-black room after roasting on sun-beaten asphalt, only to sweat it out with a host of the moshing unwashed? No? But what if candles were involved — would that make it classier?

Watch experimental U.K. doom-metal band Dragged Into Sunlight’s skin-crawling, multi-sensory set from Maryland Deathfest: The Movie III.

Boil dem angels.

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Witch Cross,
Axe to Grind

First new Witch Cross material since 1984? Prepare thy battleaxes, let’s fight some demons and whatnot.

nprmusic:

With clustered chords out of Deathspell Omega, industrial heft via Godflesh, and some gritty Fennesz-like electronics, Teethed Glory and Injury is the kind of anything-goes metal record that will likely prove divisive. “Scald Scar of Water” encompasses a little bit of all of the above.

Photo: Barbora Mrazkova

This can’t be the only stoner-metal song to feature a jaw harp, can it? Also, THAT CHORUS… it’s the stuff that haunts grunge’s remaining nightmares.

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High Spirits,
2013

High Spirits might call these demos, but I’ll damned if “One Last Chance” isn’t one of Chris Black’s best songs, yet. Name your own price at Bandcamp, help the band out on tour.