Listening Chaos

The Listening Chaos – February 2017 Man, another month is in the books already. That means it’s time for another roundup of last month’s best new releases. it was another good one, so let’s get to it… Albums of the Month Crystal Fairy – Crystal Fairy From [...]

The Listening Chaos – January 2017 So here we are, starting the second year in the life of The Listening Chaos. I’ll have to admit, part of me is a little surprised that I’m still writing this column a year later, but that’s a testament to those of you [...]

Here we are – the final five records on our year-end list. There are actually a couple of similarities between these five records. First of all, they are all in some way pushing against the boundaries of whatever genre or subgenre one might try to put [...]

Thanks for sticking with us all week for Year-End Chaos. Hopefully you’ve liked a lot of what you’ve heard and maybe even added a couple of new albums to your collection. This is the point where this list started to get difficult – any of the next ten [...]

Part III – here we go… 15. Handsome Prick – Enlarged to Show Texture I have been singing the praises of NW Indiana grinders Handsome Prick to anyone who will listen ever since I saw them as one of the locals on a bill with Deicide in Valpo last December. [...]

Welcome back for Part II of The Year-End Chaos, where we’re counting down our favorite albums of 2016, five entries at a time. 20. Wake – Sowing the Seeds of a Worthless Tomorrow In a year full of excellent grindcore albums (spoiler: this is the first of [...]

Today we begin counting down The Listening Chaos’s Top-25 Albums of 2016. Instead of giving you all twenty-five albums at once, we’re going to spread it out over the course of five days, covering five albums per day. My hope is that releasing the list in [...]

So the year is winding down, which means fewer and fewer new albums are coming out each week. It’s a fairly short column this month, but the two Albums of the Month are among my favorite records this year – you’ll definitely be hearing about both of them [...]