Devil's Horns Zine

ALBUM REVIEW: WEREWOLVES - "THE UGLIEST OF ALL" By Mark Jenkins. Rating: 9.5/10 Severed Heads Melbourne's most unhinged export returns with their sixth sonic war crime, and Christ on a cracker, they've really outdone themselves this time. The Ugliest Of All promises to be "a devastating album with zero let-up or mercy, a thoroughly unenjoyable assault of horrific battering that will bring no pleasure to the listener whatsoever." Finally, truth in advertising! Where previous Werewolves albums at least pretended to have hooks buried somewhere beneath the avalanche of brutality, The Ugliest Of All abandons all pretence of human decency. This isn't music; it's what happens when you feed pure spite through a wood chipper and somehow teach it to play blast beats. The opening track Fools Of The Trade immediately establishes that any hope of melody died screaming in a ditch somewhere. The production is so deliberately unpleasant that it makes their previou...

CHAOS INCARNATE: ARIF ROT ON WORMROT'S RETURN & THE ART OF SONIC BRUTALITY By Mark Jenkins. Devil's Horns Zine catches up with the multifaceted mastermind as the original lineup tears through Australia Today marks a seismic moment in Australian grindcore history. As Wormrot kicks off their nationwide tour with Pig Destroyer at Perth's Amplifier Bar, the underground is buzzing with an electricity that's been building since the Singaporean legends announced their original lineup reunion. At the centre of this maelstrom stands Arif Suhaimi—better known as Arif Rot—a creative force whose artistic vision extends far beyond his throat-shredding vocals into the visual realm through his graphic design work under the Rotworks banner. Our recent sit-down with Arif revealed a man whose artistic DNA is woven from the same chaotic threads that have made Wormrot one of grindcore's most essential acts for nearly two decades. The interview, diving deep into the questions that m...