Touché Amoré- Spiral In A Straight Line (Album Review) Oct. 14, 2024

Spiral In A Straight Line
by Touché Amoré

Like a lot of the other bands that formed around the same time in the screamo and post hardcore genres, Touch Amor earlier days were marked by short, punchier songs that crammed a lot of riffs and emotional vocals into a short span of time. Albums like To the Beat of a Dead Horse and Parting the Sea...

Envy- Eunoia (Album Review) Oct. 9, 2024

Eunoia
by Envy

Envy has been a significant part of the Japanese post hardcore and screamo scenes for the better part of thirty years, initially starting off in a similar vein to some of the bands in the genre on the other side of the world before adapting post rock and other sweeping instrumentation into their son...

Pharmakon- Maggot Mass (Album Review) Oct. 8, 2024

Maggot Mass
by Pharmakon

Around ten years or so ago, Pharmakon was generating a significant amount of buzz on the recorded and live performance front. Where most artists that fall somewhere within the death industrial, noise, and power electronics space appeal to a very specific and smaller audience, Pharmakons first two fu...

A Place To Bury Strangers- Synthesizer (Album Review) Oct. 7, 2024

Synthesizer
by A Place To Bury Strangers

A Place To Bury Strangers formed in the early 2000s, but it wasnt until later in the decade that the group would gain significant traction. Following the release of their self-titled debut in 2007 and follow-up Exploding Head in 2009, it seemed like the band was regularly mentioned amongst shoegaze ...

Crows- Reason Enough (Album Review) Oct. 4, 2024

Reason Enough
by Crows

London based Crows has been a regular face in the garage rock and post punk scenes since 2012, bringing a noisier and more aggressive take on the styles on their earlier material. Each release has seen them make some tweaks to their approach, and this years Reason Enough has some of the biggest chan...

Trash Boat- Heaven Can Wait (Album Review) Oct. 2, 2024

Heaven Can Wait
by Trash Boat

Trash Boat has had an interesting trajectory since their formation a decade ago. The British groups earlier efforts fell somewhere between pop punk and melodic hardcore, treading similar ground as bigger names like The Wonder Years, A Day To Remember, and A Wilhelm Scream. But over time their sound ...

Siderean- Spilling the Astral Chalice (Album Review) Oct. 1, 2024

Spilling the Astral Chalice
by Siderean

Slovenian progressive death metal band Siderean first emerged back in 2020 as a rebranding of sorts for Teleport, who had spent the past decade exploring technical and progressive thrash before pivoting to more of a death metal sound on the appropriately titled Ascendance and The Expansion EPs. With...

Adorior- Bleed On My Teeth (Album Review) Sept. 30, 2024

Bleed On My Teeth
by Adorior

Adoriors output has been infrequent, but each of their albums has left a lasting impact on those that gravitated towards the most extreme ends of black, death, and thrash. Formed back in 1994, their 1998 full length Like Cutting the Sleeping offered a whirlwind of riffs and unhinged vocals courtesy ...

Seether- The Surface Seems So Far (Album Review) Sept. 27, 2024

The Surface Seems So Far
by Seether

Where many of the hard rock bands that dominated airwaves in the late 90s and early 2000s have either disbanded, fallen into re-release only mode, or failed to live up to their past glory on recent albums, Seether has remained consistent. First coming into mainstream awareness with Disclaimer back i...

Kanonenfieber- Die Urkatastrophe (Album Review) Sept. 19, 2024

Die Urkatastrophe
by Kanonenfieber

Despite only being around four years old, German based Kanonenfieber has taken the metal world by storm since the release of the Menschenmhle full-length in 2021. Written and performed entirely by masked musician Noise, the material on Menschenmhle fell somewhere between melodic black/death metal an...

Void Commander- Alien Queen (Album Review) Sept. 18, 2024

Alien Queen
by Void Commander

Swedens become one of the major hubs for blues/stoner rock and doom over the past two decades or so, with quite a few bands from the country sounding like they couldve come from the swampy regions of the United States. Void Commander is the perfect example of this on their latest album Alien Queen, ...

Crobot- Obsidian (Album Review) Sept. 17, 2024

Obsidian (2024)
by Crobot

Pennsylvania based Crobot has been a regular face in the hard/stoner rock scenes for the better part of thirteen years, and while theyve never gained quite as much traction as the likes of Clutch or CKY the group has maintained a dedicated fanbase over the course of their career. Each of their full ...

WE ARE WINTER’S BLUE AND RADIANT CHILDREN- "NO MORE APOCALYPSE FATHER" (Album Review) Sept. 12, 2024

"NO MORE APOCALYPSE FATHER"
by WE ARE WINTER’S BLUE AND RADIANT CHILDREN

WE ARE WINTERS BLUE AND RADIANT CHILDREN brings together Mat Ball (Big Brave) and Efrim Manuel Menuck (Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Thee Silver Mt. Zion) along with members from defunct post rock band Ada. Within their respective bands these musicians have explored sprawling and spacious songwriting...

Deadletter- Hysterical Strength (Album Review) Sept. 11, 2024

Hysterical Strength
by Deadletter

The UK and Ireland have had a slew of new post punk and art rock/punk adjacent bands emerge over the last decade, many of whom have found international success thanks to their somber melodies with a bit of a bite. One of the latest to join the fray is Deadletter, who hail from London by way of North...

40 Watt Sun- Little Weight (Album Review) Sept. 6, 2024

Little Weight
by 40 Watt Sun

When 40 Watt Sun first emerged in 2011 with The Inside Room, it served as a vehicle for Patrick Walker to take some of the ideas that he had explored with Warning and push them into different territory. Warning had captivated a lot of people with their second and final full-length Watching From a Di...

Molchat Doma- Belaya Polosa (Album Review) Sept. 5, 2024

Belaya Polosa
by Molchat Doma

Molchat Domas rise in popularity has been interesting to follow, and as with most viral success it seemed to happen overnight. The Belarus post punk/synthpop group originally made a name for themselves with lo-fi and mysterious sounding albums, often coming through like you were hearing a dubbed ove...

Endon- Fall of Spring (Album Review) Sept. 4, 2024

Fall of Spring
by Endon

Over the past decade and a half Endon has emerged as one of the more interesting Japanese groups out there, bringing together elements of noise rock, grind, punk, black metal, and straight-up noise in frantic and unpredictable ways. Considering how many of Japans exports already had something unique...

Ploho- Почва (Soil) (Album Review) Sept. 3, 2024

П​о​ч​в​а (Soil)
by Ploho

Over the past decade Ploho has emerged as one of the more prominent Eastern European bands in the post punk/synthpop genres alongside Molchat Doma. The Siberian based group had a similar somber, cold feel that permeated their earlier recordings, and each year they seemed to churn out material that c...

Suburban Eyes- Suburban Eyes (Album Review) Aug. 30, 2024

Suburban Eyes
by Suburban Eyes

Suburban Eyes may be a new name, but with members who spent time in bands like Mineral, Christie Front Drive, The Gloria Record, and Boys Life theyve brought their decades of experience with them. Where their previous projects tended to lean towards emo and are often regarded as some of the hallmark...

Norna- Norna (Album Review) Aug. 29, 2024

Norna
by Norna

Norna was formed back in 2020 by ex-Breach/The Old Wind vocalist Tomas Liljedahl and two members of Swiss post metal/sludge band lten. Their 2022 debut Star Is Way Way Is Eye wasted little time in hitting listeners with dense and destructive riffs along with ear piercing vocals that added up to a ha...
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