While Astro’s Dream Pt.1 was never specifically promoted as a “summer” album, it’s one of the K-pop projects I most closely associate with the season and was released just before one of K-pop’s most epic summers in 2017. More importantly, it’s incredibly strong and represents… Read More »Reviewing One of My Favorite K-Pop Summer Albums: ASTRO – DREAM PT. 1
Prayer of the Countess The Making of the Third and the Mortal’s Tears Laid in Earth Early ’90s Norwegian doom metal. Not something you hear every day. Communed from the same natural mysteries of the landscape that animated their black metal countrymen—forests, folklore, the cycle… Read More »The Third and the Mortal – Tears Laid in Earth
It’s time to crush your way into the weekend with the new song and video from New York’s Concrete. Styling themselves as “crossover death metal,” the band embodies aspects of New York’s iconic hardcore and death metal scenes. An obvious standout for the track is… Read More »Video Premiere: Concrete – “Chains of Oppression”
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K-pop’s title tracks might gain most of listeners’ attention, but many album tracks are worth equal spotlight. I call these “buried treasures.” Beyond this, K-pop’s albums deliver thousands of additional tracks that settle for a more limited audience. It’s these songs that will become a… Read More »Battle of the B-Sides: g.o.d, Red Velvet, GOT7, SF9, Dreamcatcher