CHAT PILE & HAYDEN PEDIGO - In The Earth Again LP Prog Metal Göran Nilsson (Hydra Illustration)

Göran Nilsson (Hydra Illustration)

that these 'Contes d'Étonnement' reinvent a fresh appeal to the liberal imagination

Here songs ooze louche evil over flesh-melting riffs that creep like hot magma bubbling up through the earth’s crust at their own malevolent pace

The clash of Sig Wilson’s psychedelic roots and the punk-tinged backgrounds of Markham and Bulgasem

I often think about a video that Ben made in the mid-2000s

CHAT PILE & HAYDEN PEDIGO - In The Earth Again LP Prog Metal Göran Nilsson (Hydra Illustration)The sprawling expanse of the American heartland is many things: picturesque as it is desolate, familiar as it is alien. Very few settings manage to capture such contrasting characteristics in equal measure, so its no wonder that the endless roads and forgotten towns of the deep countryside are practically synonymous with the general concept of a post apocalypse. Although theres a bleak horror to the rural decay of Flyover Country, theres a tragic