Kim Jaejoong has been more active as an agency head than a performer this year, debuting two new boy groups under his iNKODE Entertainment. But every once and awhile, it’s important to return to the spotlight and remind everyone what a great singer he is.… Read More »Song Review: Kim Jaejoong – Tonight
Though Oh My Girl remain stubbornly inactive as a group, its members occasionally release material. Mimi is the group’s rapper and has dabbled in OST tracks before, but Bish Bash Bosh is her official solo debut. The song’s retro electro-hip-hop sound offers an interesting playground… Read More »Song Review: Mimi (Oh My Girl) – Bish Bash Bosh
Over the course of 15 years and seven albums, Norway’s Beaten to Death have been rewriting the rules of grindcore. Whether it’s through an almost clean and mostly distortionless guitar tone, their shattering of scene tropes or a career-long refusal to put limits on their… Read More »Track Premiere: Grindcore Nutbars Beaten to Death Test Tolerance with “The Tolerator”
There’s playing old-school death/thrash, and then there’s apparently deciding that heavy metal history effectively reached its ideal evolutionary state sometime between 1988 and 1992. Raleigh, North Carolina trio Deceptor proudly fall into the latter camp. Their debut full-length, Reign of Terror, arrives August 21 through… Read More »Album Premiere: Deceptor – Reign of Terror
A going concern since 2008, Portland, ME prog-tech death metal trio Shabti are blessing us with album number three, Haze, Cacophony, and White Light, their first effort since 2019’s Trembling and Shorn. The lack of regular output is understandable for this threesome—Brendan Hayter (bass), Rob Cook… Read More »Full Album Stream: Shabti –Haze, Cacophony, and White Light