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 The Belarus post punk/synthpop group originally made a name for themselves with lo-fi and mysterious sounding albums, often coming through like you were hearing a dubbed ove...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...

Satan's Satyrs- After Dark (Album Review) Aug. 27, 2024

After Dark
by Satan's Satyrs

In November of 2010 I was an undergraduate student at University of Maryland College Park and had joined their college radio station WMUC as a DJ. In addition to radio shows, WMUC staff also regularly brought in bands to the station to play live on a segment called Third Rail Radio, and a buddy of m...

Uniform- American Standard (Album Review) Aug. 26, 2024

American Standard
by Uniform

For just over a decade now NYC based Uniform has been putting out abrasive and heavy hitting music that blurred the lines between industrial, noise rock, and punk. The core duo of Michael Berdan and Ben Greenberg has explored different things with each album, but it often felt like their earlier rec...

Geneva Jacuzzi- Triple Fire (Album Review) Aug. 23, 2024

Triple Fire
by Geneva Jacuzzi

Geneva Jacuzzis had an interesting trajectory since first releasing music in the mid-2000s, as her recorded output often emphasized very lo-fi and weirder takes on synthpop, new wave, and other electronic styles while live performances often took on a wild performance art feel. There have been plent...

Bloodcrown- Sound of Flesh and Bone (Album Review) Aug. 22, 2024

Sound of Flesh and Bone
by Bloodcrown

Bloodcrown may be a fairly new band that formed back in 2022, but its members have been a part of the Swedish death metal landscape for at least two decades as part of acts like Pantokrator, Exhale, and The Weakening. With this in mind, it makes sense that the groups debut Sound of Flesh and Bone co...

Melt-Banana - 3+5 (Album Review) Aug. 21, 2024

3+5
by Melt-Banana

Melt-Banana is one of those bands that has managed to defy simple categorization for their entire careers, and while you could throw them in with some noise rock, experimental rock, or punk, each of their albums has attempted so many different things that this ends up being an oversimplification. I ...

Orme- No Serpents, No Saviours (EP Review) Aug. 19, 2024

No Serpents, No Saviours
by Orme

Genres like drone, post rock, and funeral doom often have incredible textures and peaks to discover for listeners but the barrier of entry can often be quite high due to their lengthy track and album lengths. For every group that cuts things down to a relatively digestible ten- or fifteen-minute son...

Duhkha- A Place You Can’t Come Back From (Album Review) Aug. 16, 2024

A Place You Can't Come Back From
by Duhkha

Duhkha emerged in 2021 with a self-titled EP that served as a brief but explosive introduction, blurring the lines between hardcore, metalcore, mathcore, and everything in between. With members who had spent time in bands like Eighteen Visions, Graf Orlock, Teeth, and Seizures the barely controlled ...

Mausoleum- Defiling the Decayed (Album Review) Aug. 14, 2024

Defiling the Decayed
by Mausoleum

They may not be nearly as well known as some of the other US death metal bands out there, but Pennsylvania based Mausoleum has been offering up zombie and horror themed death metal since 2001. Part of this is likely due to the infrequent nature of their releases, as they had an eight-year gap betwee...

Common Sage- Nostos | Algos (EP Review) Aug. 8, 2024

Nostos | Algos
by Common Sage

Brooklyns Common Sage has been occupying the space between emo, alternative rock, and post hardcore since introducing themselves with "Where Are You? I'm in Klamath Falls, Are You Here?" back in 2018. Since that time their sound has continued to evolve as the lineup has gone through some changes, an...

Iniquitous Monolith- Monstrous Degradation (Album Review) Aug. 7, 2024

Monstrous Degradation
by Iniquitous Monolith

Brutal death metal is one of those styles where I tend to be fairly picky, as for every band that offers some great songwriting and filthy production alongside the expected guttural vocals, blasting, and grooves, youve got hundreds of groups with the same exact patterns and extremely rough productio...

Nova Charisma- Metropolitan (Album Review) Aug. 6, 2024

Metropolitan
by Nova Charisma

Post hardcore/progressive rock group Sianvar may have gone their separate ways in 2019, but it didnt take long for guitarist Sergio Medina and vocalist Donovan Melero to form a new project and explore a different side of their established sounds. The duo named their new group Nova Charisma and quick...
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