HITGS debuted as a kiddie group with catchy but cloying material. They’re still quite young, but their work has grown more palatable with time. Today, they’re back with digital single Gulliver, chronicling a crush on a guy with that same name. I wonder how common… Read More »Song Review: HITGS – Gulliver!
I’ve joked before that TNX only give us one single per year, but they’ve broken that streak in 2026. Their last comeback was all the way back in January, but they’ve returned with digital single Die Another Day. The song sees them tackling a new… Read More »Song Review: TNX – Die Another Day
Forest Brienne Cutrer is not widely known in the metal community. She is nonetheless doing some of the most confrontational boundary-pushing black metal music today. While most black metal can be sadly conservative and traffic in 1995 tropes, Cutrer is way beyond church arson and… Read More »Q&A: Forest Brienne Cutrer (Bury Them and Keep Quiet) On Personal Transformation and “Positive Nihilism”
On their fourth full-length, Sisyphean Life, Dutch grindcore outfit Suffering Quota have turned their sights on the endless, brutal repetition of daily modern life. Inspired by the Greek myth of Sisyphus who was condemned to the impossible task of pushing a giant boulder up a… Read More »Track Premiere: Suffering Quota – “Again”
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”