When it comes to WJSN, the old adage “you don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone” seems fitting. They and their musical cohorts (Lovelyz, Oh My Girl, etc.) are part of a bygone girl group era. During their heyday, they reliably released melodic pop… Read More »Song Review: WJSN (Cosmic Girls) – Bloom Hour
– February 25th, 2026 – “Screams From Beneath The Surface” To Drop Next Month + European Headlining Tour Announced Photo by Tim Hubbard Watch / stream MONSTROSITY’s “The Atrophied” HERE “The Atrophied” is the latest single from US death metal loyalists MONSTROSITY. The uncompromising track… Read More »Monstrosity: US Death Metal Icons Unleash “The Atrophied”
Death metal history carries weight, and few names carry more of it than Grave’s earliest material. So when a new project surfaces under the name Hating Life, expectations are immediately set: HM-2 filth, down-tuned riffs, and a deep reverence for the genre’s late ’80s and… Read More »Mini-Album Premiere: Hating Life – Revenge From Beyond
Baltimore-based street metal crüe Total Maniac are back and sleazier than ever on their new album, Love Overdrive. Written and styled like they came straight off the streets of ’80s California, songs like “Early Grave,” which you can stream below, are driven by thrashy guitars… Read More »Track Premiere: Total Maniac – “Early Grave”
Berlin-based hardcore punks Zanjeer take aim at the systems reinforcing oppression in nations around the world on their new album, Seher-e-Maqhoor (English: “Dawn of the Oppressed”). Musically, it’s a concoction of classic hardcore punk, the band citing Ratos de Porão and Raw Power as major influences, with an… Read More »Track Premiere: Zanjeer – ‘F*ck Berlin, Free Falasteen’