Collective Zine

The cover art for Suffering Quota’s latest grindstrosity feels like a pretty apt metaphor for life in 2026: an exhausted, worn-to-the-bone human husk pushing a load of shit uphill while surrounded by fucking serpents.

Nice lil five-tracker that managed to catch me somewhat by surprise.

While cross pollination between hardcore and black metal is now thoroughly commonplace, back in the late 90s it was a different story.

If I’m being brutally honest, a lot of modern-day oi!

London punx [FILLER] knows exactly what they want to do, and this is to beat you viciously about the head.

Wasn’t sure how Cryptic Shift were going to follow up their magnificent ‘Visitations From Enceladus’ LP, but they’ve somehow gone and topped it.

Oh yeah, I like this.

Ever jammed a fork in an electrical socket?

In this new, topsy-turvy world of punk we’re now inhabiting I have no idea how Combatwoundedveteran fit into the reimagined hierarchy of things, but at the time ‘I Know A Girl Who Develops Crime Photos’ felt like a sort of highwater mark for crazed, splen…

True to form for longstanding Italian weirdos Zu, ‘Ferrum Siderum’ is wild and thoroughly immersive.

Last time I reviewed Coscradh I griped about things seeming sort of formless.

Always viewed ownership of and admiration for Burned Up Bled Dry’s ‘Cloned Slaves For Slaves’ as a mark of taste and discernment: it was (and remains) a cheap score in terms of the wider Slap A Ham canon, but dripped with such a savage sense of vengefulne…