Bloodstock 2022: A Review and an Interview with Pupil Slicer's Katie Davies

by Aker on Wed, Sep 14, 2022

“There’s a lot of people who’d like to kick you down in the world – fuck them”

The heat at this year’s Bloodstock festival was scorching and incessant, much like Pupil Slicer’s grinding, eclectic -core based sound. Bloodstock, this year especially, was a tale of two cities; the traditional metal core of the festival seemed more abundant, and perhaps more uninspiring for my tastes, as ever, however the fresher -core core of young bands, mainly playing the tented second stage, presented something different. The beauty of a festival like Bloodstock is its ability to cater to every need.

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State of the Vortex: Mid-year 2022

by Snyde on Tue, Jul 5, 2022

On and on it spins.

We are 6 months into 2022 and things are looking dire. Worse than being infuriating or perplexing in any sort of amusing way, music in 2022 has been excruciatingly pedestrian. “Risk-taking” is a seemingly unheard-of term and bands that got big off the 2010s' resurgence in heavy music are now old enough to be completely out of ideas. You know the situation is perilous when even Alestorm can’t stoop to a new low, opting instead to recycle music they’ve released on their immediately preceding record.

SotV midyear 2022

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Half Time 2022: Sludge Round-Up

by Aker on Sun, Jun 12, 2022

Scraping through the grime at the bottom of the barrel.

I’ve been on a sludge kick recently, so there’s no better time than the present to dive into 2022 Vortexian sludge activity. Sludge confuses members of the Interdimensional Vortex of Conspiratorial Tastemaking and there is little in the way of a consensus. In the shadowy e-pages of a far distant Discord channel, users squabble and bicker over truth of sludge. What is sludge? Why is sludge? If there is a consensus in the pro-sludge camp - a smelly squadron in the community - it’s concerned with oppressiveness.

sludge sucks

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DUMPSTER SLAM MARCH 2022

by Planex on Tue, Apr 5, 2022

The resident slammer of the Vortex is making his best racoon impression once again

We find ourselves again in the dumpster. How did we get here? Were we hungry and hoping to find a stale bagel without too much mold? Is this dumpster a shelter from the harsh natural elements of the alley behind the Burger King? No. This dumpster is the source of the $LAMZ. We dig through the muck to find a four minute weebslam demo with Family Guy samples. Yes. This is why we are here.

trash

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