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Noteworthy Metal – February 2020

By Astrid Budgor • March 6th, 2020

New year, new metal.

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Noteworthy Metal – December 2019

By Astrid Budgor • January 12th, 2020

Astrid shares her favorite metal hits from 2019.

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Noteworthy Metal – November 2019

By Astrid Budgor • December 3rd, 2019

A double dose of metal albums you should check out.

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Noteworthy Metal – September 2019

By Astrid Budgor • September 30th, 2019

Prepare your ears for lots and lots of doom and grind.

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Noteworthy Metal – August 2019

By Astrid Budgor • August 28th, 2019

Metal waits for no one, and Astrid’s got a pile of records to share after a recent cross-country move.

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Noteworthy Metal – June 2019

By Astrid Budgor • June 26th, 2019

A little summer heat never stopped anyone from moshing.

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Noteworthy Metal – May 2019

By Astrid Budgor • May 24th, 2019

This month’s top contenders include two DBSM records because Astrid is a self-described predictable goth.

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Noteworthy Metal – April

By Astrid Budgor • April 30th, 2019

Fresh hot metal for you!

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Noteworthy Metal – March

By Astrid Budgor • April 3rd, 2019

Astrid Budgor’s got a whole slew of albums for fans this month, including an oldie but a goodie you can still find on vinyl.

Alita, large eyes looking out into the middle distance, surrounded by the male figures in her life and a gloomy sky.

Flesh Without Blood

By Astrid Budgor • March 22nd, 2019

Alita does not pass as human, either as actor or character, but the film remarkably doesn’t see “human” as the only option…Or, put another way: there is more to life than humanity.

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Noteworthy Metal – February

By Astrid Budgor • March 8th, 2019

Astrid casts a wide net this month and catches an eclectic mix of metal to melt your face off.

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Noteworthy Metal – January

By Astrid Budgor • February 14th, 2019

New year. New metal.

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Noteworthy Metal – December

By Astrid Budgor • January 11th, 2019

In the spirit of List Season, Astrid made a roundup of metal records she missed over the course of the 2018.

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Noteworthy Metal – November

By Astrid Budgor • November 30th, 2018

Astrid’s on a K-pop kick right now, so you know this month’s metal has to be good if it pulled her away.

Silkscreened Horrors

By Astrid Budgor • November 2nd, 2018

The horror t-shirt has become an institution.

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Noteworthy Metal – October

By Astrid Budgor • October 29th, 2018

Astrid Budgor may be sick, but so is NECRONOMIDOL’s newest album.

The Misogyny Industry

By Astrid Budgor • October 19th, 2018

“Can you hear me? They did this.”

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Noteworthy Metal – September 2018

By Astrid Budgor • October 12th, 2018

It’s all love this time around in a month full of new metal favorites.

FASCINATION

Never Be Clean Again

By Astrid Budgor • September 28th, 2018

“Oh, so society’s to blame …”

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Noteworthy Metal – August 2018

By Astrid Budgor • September 4th, 2018

It’s hard to argue against the rise of antifa black metal bands. But then, it’s hard to extricate current stylings from black metal’s past too.

Fascination

Damp and Rotting

By Astrid Budgor • August 17th, 2018

Sweet Sweet Lonely Girl is emblematic of a certain species of horror movie; autumnal, elliptical, vaguely about lesbians in a troublingly reactionary way, and dreadfully slow

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Noteworthy Metal – July 2018

By Astrid Budgor • August 16th, 2018

What can I say, it’s a death metal kind of month.

Procreation of the Wicked

By Astrid Budgor • August 10th, 2018

“They rip him apart as he grins, nerve-endings aflame with the liquor of pain, finally accepting an eternity of obliterative bliss.”

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Noteworthy Metal – June 2018

By Astrid Budgor • July 5th, 2018

This month in metal sees the awaited return of a few fan favorites and a band named after a freaking Bloodborne item.

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Noteworthy Metal – May 2018

By Astrid Budgor • June 12th, 2018

Astrid hates living in Tampa. These new metal records offer her blistering solace.

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Noteworthy Metal – April 2018

By Astrid Budgor • April 24th, 2018

Spring is here, so Astrid turns to wintry black metal to ward of the Florida sun.

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Noteworthy Metal – March 2018

By Astrid Budgor • April 4th, 2018

The latest metal gems unearthed on Bandcamp.

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Noteworthy Metal – February 2018

By Astrid Budgor • March 14th, 2018

There are no gatekeepers here at The Usurper. Witness: Necronomidol, the most metal thing you’ll hear this month.

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Noteworthy Metal – January 2018

By Astrid Budgor • January 29th, 2018

Introducing The Usurper, in which Astrid Budgor selects quality metal to tear up your ear holes every month.

Fascination

On Who Saw Her Die?

By Astrid Budgor • November 6th, 2017

As a director not bloodthirsty enough for the horror fans and not tasteful enough for the cinephiles, it only makes him ripe for endless rediscovery.

Giallology
A brunette woman looks at the camera, gaze panicked.

On The Case of the Bloody Iris

By Astrid Budgor • October 23rd, 2017

“Some maniacs pass themselves off as normal. It happens.”

Fascination
A woman with her eyes heavily rounded in eyeliner, her gaze dark, as a knife sticks out of focus in front of her vision. THis is a still from the film Death Walks in High Heels

On Death Walks On High Heels

By Astrid Budgor • October 16th, 2017

“I can’t help it. It’s a vice.”

Fascination

On A Lizard in a Woman’s Skin

By Astrid Budgor • August 14th, 2017

“The truth comes to light in very odd colors.”

Fascination
A group of people in a room, looking somber the light across their faces showcasing the lines of a set of near drawn blinds. This is a still from Short Night of Glass Dolls.

On Short Night of Glass Dolls

By Astrid Budgor • July 28th, 2017

“All our youth must eventually be sacrificed.”

Fascination
a mans hands hold a knife aloft, the blade lit red in a lens flare. Below him on a bed stretches the naked limbs of a woman. This is a still from the film The Black Belly of the Tarantula.

On The Black Belly of the Tarantula

By Astrid Budgor • July 24th, 2017

“There was a nude woman … someone had killed her.”

Fascination

On The Fifth Cord

By Astrid Budgor • July 14th, 2017

“Ever since you’ve been playing detective you just can’t get anything right!”

Fascination

On The Bird With the Crystal Plumage

By Astrid Budgor • July 10th, 2017

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