When a song hits big in K-pop, the industry tends to drive that same sound into the ground over the next few years. With aespa’s Supernova and Whiplash both major hits in 2024, it was only a matter of time before pounding club beats and… Read More »Song Review: STAYC – Bebe
Extreme in its extremities. the new five-track EP from Pyramid Mass, Gargling Rot, drills into your brainpan with some potent, industrial-strength sludge before launching into a death metal barrage and seamlessly finding some ambient soundscapes to float in. It’s all presented surprisingly cohesively with contrasting sounds… Read More »Full EP Stream: Pyramid Mass –Gargling Rot
You can’t beat the classic sounds, but you can definitely present them in exciting ways, which is exactly what Amammoth do on their new album, Distant Skies and the Ocean Flies. Steeped in doom, stoner and sludge influences from Sleep, Electric Wizard, Melvins and Black Sabbath, the Aussie… Read More »Full Album Stream: Amammoth – “Distant Skies and the Ocean Flies”
WayV’s Ten has a new mini album out later this month and — like seemingly everyone in K-pop — has teased it with a pre-release single. Pre-releases often end up being bigger hits than the actual title tracks, as artists want to come out of… Read More »Song Review: Ten (WayV) – Bambola
There’s this K-pop sub-genre lovingly referred to as “Christian horse girl music.” Think early efforts by GFriend, Lovelyz, Oh My Girl, April and the like. If you have time, do yourself a favor and go down the YouTube rabbit hole of this music, as it… Read More »Song Review: The Wind – Only One