Noise Complaint Exploring Black Metal Ecstasy With Agriculture By Ben Sailer • January 5th, 2026 Agriculture call themselves “ecstatic black metal.” Believe it or not, that isn’t a contradiction of terms.
Noise Complaint The Deftones Are the Weirdest Metal Band on Earth By Ben Sailer • September 30th, 2025 The Deftones have influenced everyone, but no one sounds exactly like the Deftones. That’s because their improbable career trajectory is impossible to follow.
Noise Complaint Exploring the Miraculous Existence of Grails By Ben Sailer • August 29th, 2025 Instrumental rock band Grails have released a studio album that’s impossible to perform live. Somehow, it’s decisions like this that have defined their success.
Exploits Feature Loudermilk By Ben Sailer • August 1st, 2025 Writing about culture should be about more than just trying to control the narrative around a creator or their work.
Noise Complaint Full of Hell Sharpen Their Teeth on Broken Sword, Rotten Shield By Ben Sailer • July 29th, 2025 Full of Hell are one of the hardest-working and outright brutal grindcore bands around today. It’s time mainstream audiences gave them their due.
Noise Complaint I Have Seen the Future of Music, and It’s Bolted to the Ground at Chuck E. Cheese By Ben Sailer • April 30th, 2025 Please don’t make me explain what I was doing at Chuck E. Cheese.
Noise Complaint Growth By Ben Sailer • April 2nd, 2025 Here’s what I’ve been listening to and thinking on this month.
Noise Complaint Finding a Through Line with Touche Amore By Ben Sailer • February 27th, 2025 Ben reflects on the career of hardcore band Touche Amore and reconnects with a sound he thought he’d outgrown.
Noise Complaint How The Get Up Kids and an Xbox Demo Disc Changed My Life By Ben Sailer • December 3rd, 2024 One afternoon when I had nothing else to do, I popped in a sampler of the snowboarding game Amped, and discovered a couple tracks from The Get Up Kids.
Noise Complaint Marilyn Manson, Middle School Dances, and Small Town Fear By Ben Sailer • October 30th, 2024 I can’t remember if I left and went home after hearing the rules of the game, but I do remember refusing to play, without saying exactly why I didn’t want to join in.
