There’s a particular kind of anger that doesn’t arrive all at once. It lingers, gets passed down and lives in the things nobody talks about until, eventually, there’s nowhere left for it to go. That’s the territory Israeli progressive metal/ethno-rock outfit Submasq explore on “Anger,” the… Read More »Video Premiere: Submasq – “Anger”
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Normally, this time of year I’d be publishing a post about my “songs of the summer” for 2026, but the state of K-pop has forced me to write something else instead. Trust me, I didn’t want to! I’ve been writing about K-pop for a decade… Read More »K-Pop’s Bummer Summer: What went so horribly wrong?
Italian tech-thrash/death metal mutants Miscreance sound like they were built in a lab from the best wrong parts of several different eras. On Reminiscence, the Northern Italian quartet take the old-school technical death metal blueprint—Death, Atheist, Coroner, Sadus, all the good stuff—and drag it through… Read More »Album Premiere: Miscreance – Reminiscense
There are a number of acts who have debuted in the past few decades and have dozens of song ratings on this blog. I thought it would be fun to lay these ratings out in chronological order, line-graph style, and take a macro view of… Read More »X:IN: A Career In Song Ratings