HAWAIIAN BLACK METAL

Honolulu-based Kuka'ilimoku are proof that misery, darkness, and filth can be conjured even on golden beaches and beneath sunny blue skies. Inexplicably recorded onto cassette and presumably from several rooms away, their self-titled EP sounds like suffering being shoved through a landline headset. What it lacks in listenability, it makes up for in “boundless disgust and hatred for those unwanted in this dominion”—“this dominion” being the Hawaiian islands, and “those unwanted” being you.