Stream Of The Day : Quicksand
Quicksand Bring On The Psychics : Still Setting The Blueprint
30 years after helping rewrite the rules of post-hardcore music, Quicksand return with 'Bring On The Psychics'. Older? Obviously. Wiser? Probably. ...
Converge Have Chosen Violence. Again
After waiting nine years to release a proper album, Converge apparently decided time was running out. So naturally, they made two in four months.
Nine years passed between 'The Dusk In Us' and whatever Converg...
The Peccata Mundi™ Music Universe – Part 2
Part IV — The Farm
There are ghosts. Not metaphorical ones. Real ones.
Or at least, that's what A Very Old Ghost Behind The Farm has been insisting since 2009.
Few bands establish their own mythology before ...
The Peccata Mundi™ Music Universe – Part 1
Forget the hype. The French underground already has its own shared universe.
Let's get one thing out of the way immediately. No, the Peccata Mundi Music Universe isn't real. At least not officially.
There are...
ARMED FOR APOCALYPSE and the Art of Sonic Collapse
If despair had a pulse, if the end of the world arrived buried beneath feedback, concrete-weight riffs and blood-spitting hardcore fury, it would sound exactly like Armed For Aapocalypse’ new album.
For nearly...
‘No Comply’: Baratro’s Unflinching Rebuke of a World on Fire
At the heart of No Comply, the new record from Milan’s noise-rock/hardcore quartet Baratro, is a photograph by Rajab Al Reefi of the Gaza Skate Team. It captures a skater mid-trick, suspended above a flattened ...
The Grey – Kodok
Silence rarely sounds this heavy.
About six years after their previous release and only a few months after invading our digital columns, UK post-metal trio The Grey return with 'KODOK', a record that deepens t...
American sludge-rock / dark psych Moon Destroys in Lunar Drift
About five years after their acclaimed 'Maiden Voyage' EP, Atlanta's based Moon Destroys return with a markedly evolved sound. On their debut full-length album 'She Walks by Moonlight', the band moves beyond sl...
Zahn – Adria
Some bands write songs. Others tell stories. Then there are bands like ZAHN, who do something else entirely — they create a sonic road movie.
Just 15 months after their self-titled debut — criminally underrate...
Introducing Newcomer : Onsetter
Introducing Onsetter – A Ferocious New Voice from the Boise Underground
Emerging from the high desert of Boise, Idaho, Onsetter is poised to leave a lasting mark with a sound that fuses suffocating heaviness, ...