Matt Cook

Jan 8, 2025 | ghostcultmag.com | Matt Cook

When Stick To Your Guns are firing on all cylinders, it really is top-notch melodic-tinged Hardcore. And their latest full-length is a shining example. Keep Planting Flowers sees the Californians debuting on the sturdy SharpTone Records. The production is snug and larger than life and is complemented nicely by an overall sound that breeds a thumping, adrenaline-fueled orgy. From the get-go, “We All Die Anyway” is a solid textbook STYG album opener.

Dec 17, 2024 | ghostcultmag.com | Matt Cook

In a world full of two-faced people, misleading information and strings attached to practically everything, Goregrind is the breath of fresh air society needs. Simply put: what you see is what you get. And what you see plastered all over the cover of Horse Butcher’s self-titled debut EP is…Goregrind. The viscera and nearly unidentifiable slop of NSFW machinations is the perfect precursor of what Horse Butcher is all about. This EP is a six-pack of sadism, a deluge of human detritus.

Dec 11, 2024 | academic.oup.com | Cassandra Byrnes |Jeffrey Weeks |Matt Cook |Without Condoms

In 2006, academic and activist Dennis Altman remembered the heady days when anxiety about Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) pervaded the Australian psyche:Altman astutely captured the nascent feelings of social and political change in Australia, while an unprecedented epidemic raged globally in the 1980s. The first Australian diagnosis of AIDS—and what we now recognise as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection—occurred in 1982 in Darlinghurst, Sydney.

Dec 4, 2024 | hoerzu.at | Robert Mark Kamen |Matt Cook |Creighton Rothenberger |Ric Roman Waugh |Katrin Benedikt

» Griffiger Weltenrettungs-Reißer « BeschreibungSecret-Service-Agent Mike Banning (Gerard Butler) hat seine ganze Karriere damit verbracht, US-Präsidenten zu beschützen. Zwei Mal musste er dabei bis an seine Grenzen gehen, um den Tag zu retten. Doch nun gerät er selbst ins Visier und seine Angreifer haben noch viel mehr vor: Sie wollen gleich halb Washington dabei in Schutt und Asche legen.

Dec 3, 2024 | ghostcultmag.com | Matt Cook

Blackened Deathgrind is a trifecta of a subgenre that is tailor-made for the backdrop to an album that deals with limitless outer space and the vast uncertainties throughout. Beyond Subconscious Realms (Road To Masochist/Eggy Tapes) is Shrykull putting heart and soul into nine tracks rife with intensity and presence. It’s established with a quintessential wall of sound but has so much more to offer. The burgeoning cacophonies created are more of a base than something that is heavily relied on.