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Quick Hits: Trip Machine Laboratories, Dose: 23 - Dose: 29

Catching up on over a year's worth of top-notch releases...

Various Artists, Death Season 5 (Darker Days Ahead, 2015)

Another solid annual installment of underground experimental noise creations...

We're the Leaders, Worlds (Self-Released, 2015)

Rocked-out post-hardcore with the jangly catchiness of emo/indie rock... and a little Voivod, too!?

Vehement Caress, Frailty (Divergent Series, 2015)

Impressive dark ambient/death industrial full-length deserving of more than a mere 70 copies...

Various Artists, The Earthen Siphon (Kalpamantra, 2015)

The fourth in a series of cooperative comps highlighting the impeccable Malignant Records roster.

Various Artists, All the Little Devils are Proud of Hell (Chondritic Sound, 2015)

An immense double-cassette collection of 18 exclusive tracks of diverse experimental noise.

Black Army Jacket, 222 (Brainscan, 2015)

Late-'90s powerviolence gem gets its well-deserved remixed and remastered reissue treatment.

Psywarfare, Throw Away the Ocean (COF/Swarm of Nails/The Tide of the End, 2015)

A gorgeously packaged revisitation of '90s-era noise cuts from Dwid Hellion.

Ashtar, Ilmasaari (Czar of Bullets/Antiq/Throne, 2015)

Basel, Switzerland duo debuts with a textbook lesson in blackened doom supremacy.

Pretty Hurts, Make Graves (Rockstar/Grave Imprint, 2015)

Berlin trio rips through raw hardcore with a sheen of noise rock and subtle post-punk flourishes.

Watchmaker, Kill. Crush. Destroy. / Hirudinea Split EP (Killeveryone, 2015)

A cool cassette reissue from these sadly defunct cacophonous thrashers.

Omega Diatribe, Abstract Ritual (Self-Released, 2015)

A killer slab of burly, detuned, groove-centric, and djent-tinged metal from Budapest, Hungary.

Sewer Goddess, Painlust (Black Plagve, 2015)

Uniquely sinister industrial/doom metal meets experimental noise.

Heads., Heads. (This Charming Man, 2015)

Dead-on perfect noise rock with slithering bass, a dash of skronk, and loads of ominous intrigue.

Implode, I of Everything (Cramada, 2015)

Classic melodic Swedish death/thrash, with a modern twist...

Witch of the Waste, Made of Teeth (Self-Released, 2015)

Raging technical (death) metalcore that's working with a mixed bag of influences.

Slikk Wikked, Black Wind of Death (Self-Released, 2015)

Rockin' old school thrash, with attitude...

Ssanahtes, Ssanahtes (Self-Released, 2015)

French quintet impresses with djent-like sludgy doom.

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