Protestant – As Dead As We Look
Hailing from Milwaukee, Protestant are one of the few original hardcore DIY bands out there and this release, containing their Make Peace With the Rope You Hang From, album as well as their split with...
View ArticleFall of Efrafa – Elil
As a child, one of the movies that left an indelible imprint on my psyche was 1978’s Watership Down. As a five year old I was too young to grasp the political, religious, social and possibly...
View ArticleProtestant – The Hate, The Hollow
As I first heard Milwaukee’s Protestant on their As Dead As We Look release and now their latest full length, I’m more confident in anointing this group as the heir to the mantle left by Cursed;...
View ArticleMalachi- Malachi
Halo of Flies Records are not particularly productive when it comes to releases, but when they do release something it usually gets my attention-for example Fall of Efrafa, Protestant and now...
View ArticleFall of Efrafa – Inle
And so, The Warren of Snares trilogy is complete and the UKs sadly short lived and now defunct (at least according to a farewell show back in October) Fall of Efrafa have a trilogy to their legacy that...
View ArticleNorthless – No Quarter for the Damaged EP
First off, the packaging from this EP is pretty unique, though its bound to drive storage-o-phobes nuts: the CDEP comes in a LP sized sleeve, with the CD resting in the middle on a spinner and the...
View ArticleMasakari – The Prophet Feeds
After the killer little Nails release, the second best recent offering of D-beat hardcore is the debut from Cleveland’s Masakari who have given the genre some needed melody and thoughtfulness within...
View ArticleMakai, The – Embracing the Shroud of a Blackened Sky LP
I’ll get right to it, after one full-length (2007’s The End of All You Know) and a couple of splits, California’s The Makai have somehow rendered one of the most brilliant pieces of music I’ve heard...
View ArticleProtestant – Judgements LP
While labels like Deathwish Inc, Bridge 9, Epitaph and Victory are often considered the preeminent contemporary hardcore labels, the fact remains that Halo of Flies actually has one of hardcore’s very...
View ArticleNorthless – Clandestine Abuse LP
Halo of Flies is having a pretty awesome run of LP releases over the last few months. Going back to last year’s The Makai and Protestant LPs, this year they’ve released the sublime debut of Light...
View ArticleLight Bearer – Lapsus LP
I’ve been sitting on my review of this simply stunning double LP for a while now for a couple of reasons. First, it’s such a monolithic, emotionally draining and fantastic album that putting it into...
View ArticleEnth/Amarok – Split 12″
Once again, Halo of Flies Records ensures that I keep a record player in my possession by releasing an impressive 2 track split 12″ from California sludge doom act Amarok and Polish doom band Enth....
View ArticleLight Bearer/Northless – Split 12″
Here’s a vinyl split LP with some amazing potential. Light Bearer‘s first LP, 2011’s Lapsus was one of the very best releases of last year while Wisconsin’s Northless have steadily improved over the...
View ArticleProtestant – Reclamation 12″/Stalemate 10″
“We continue to storm forward with no real sense of direction or purpose. We repeat ourselves, retell the same lies and never change. We all have become stagnant and entitled.. We know better, but we...
View ArticleLight Bearer – Silver Tongue LP
Featuring members of hardcore act Momentum and of course former Fall of Efrafa frontman Alex Bradshaw, the UK’s Light Bearer have quickly established themselves as one of atmospheric sludge/post rock’s...
View ArticleAmber – Lovesaken LP
My dealing with Wisconsin’s Halo of Flies records have mostly been Lightbearer/Fall of Efrafa or Protestant related with a few other crust /hardcore releases scattered in there. However, here is...
View ArticleCara Neir – Portals To A Better, Dead World LP
Hailing from Texas, Cara Neir is one of those bands that will drive grizzled old school black metal fans crazy but fans of envy, Hiretsukan, Quantice Never Crashed as well as label mates The Makai...
View ArticleJungbluth – Part Ache LP
I started this review with the feeling that after about seven listens I had grasped what was being conveyed and therefore I would be able judge and critique. The more I kept on listening, though, the...
View ArticleDeathrite – Into Extinction LP
From the always reliable purveyors of fine vinyl, Halo of Flies, comes a repress of the second album from Germany’s Deathrite. It strays a little away from the label’s norm delivering less hardcore and...
View ArticleHexis – Abalam LP
“The demon Abalam is a King of Hell and an assistant to Paimon. He takes possession of a human’s body to encourage the human to commit lust, he would defile humans during the possession and the only...
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