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My review of last year’s Hammer of the Gods by Bottomless Pit went up at Dusted today. Here’s a bit from the write-up:Almost immediately after drummer Michael Dahlquist was killed in a freakish car crash in 2005, bassist Tim Midgett and guitarist Andy Cohen announced that Silkworm went with him. The band, which had at that point recorded 10 albums over 18 years, fusing the heavy guitar fuzz of classic rock with the difficult rhythms and abrasiveness of post-punk, was over... MORE
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During its nearly 20 years as a going concern, Missoula-Seattle-Chicago's Silkworm could annihilate you with guitars or tickle you with self-lacerating humor. Smarter, more sardonic and indefinably different than the grunge it was often compared to, Silkworm's music was loud and sometimes basic but never, in any way, simple. Silkworm came to an end in 2005 when drummer Mike Dalquist was killed in a random, senseless accident that would test anyone's belief in an orderly... MORE
