I was lucky to be front row at Hwasa’s showcase stage during this year’s KCON LA and that performance crystallized her strengths as an artist. Though I haven’t always loved her solo work, she’s racked up a solid discography of varied material. And with Hwasa’s… Read More »Song Review: Hwasa (Mamamoo) – Good Goodbye
The New Jersey stalwarts return from the catacombs with Feral Darkness, a record that feels less like a “comeback” and more like a blood-moon ascension. Across ten tracks, Tombs collapse the walls between black metal, death rock, and post-industrial desolation, delivering fifty minutes of pure… Read More »Album Premiere: Tombs – Feral Darkness (Redefining Darkness)
Do you remember when Skeletonwitch dropped their 2018 masterpiece, Devouring Radiant Light, a radical change in sound that saw the band fully embrace the black metal side of their black-thrash sound? If you liked that, you’ll love what Indianapolis black-thrashers Graveripper are up to on From Welkin to Tundra, their… Read More »Full Album Stream: Graveripper – “From Welkin to Tundra”
Lamp of Murmuur have been one of the most exciting bands in black metal over the last six years and it doesn’t seem like that’s about to change with the release of The Dreaming Prince in Ecstasy, the fourth full-length from the mysterious black metal outfit. Set… Read More »Track Premiere: Lamp of Murmuur – ‘Reincarnation of a Witch’
Someone needs to calculate just how many times the schoolboy/schoolgirl concept has been used in J-pop. That would be impossible, of course, as it’s become one of the industry’s leading tropes. It still works, partly because the idols themselves are young enough to sell it… Read More »Song Review: aoen – Seishun Incredibles