If you read my monthly “Global Pop Round-Up” feature, you’ll know how much I like dance music. It’s rare to find a straight-up club track in K-pop these days, as idol group configurations usually require an arrangement that mixes genres and tempos. The last all-out… Read More »Song Review: Hello Gloom – Mamacita
After a few years of singles and EPs, hardcore five-piece Spaced signed to the legendary Revelation Records. Today, they release This Is All We Get, an eight-track record that places the band on the level of some of Rev’s most iconic groups. This is an album… Read More »Artist Interview: Spaced
UK lads Mastiff are no strangers to depression, anger and grief. Those emotions have been present on each release in the band’s very bleak catalog and come to a head on Deprecipice, the band’s fourth album. Though it’s Mastiff’s first release since the end of pandemic lockdowns, they… Read More »Full Album Stream: Mastiff – “Deprecipice”
Horror Pain Gore Death Productions present Destiny, the debut album from Memphis, Tennessee’s ultraviolent sludge metal sadists Mudshow. Destiny is a concept record telling the story of Matt Tremont’s explosive anHorrord blood-soaked feuds with Atsushi Onita and Rickey Shane Page and is heavily indebted to A… Read More »Album Premiere: Mudshow – Destiny
I wrote a track-by-track review of Ryugujo’s new EP a few days after it was released, and I’ve only gone on to appreciate it more since then. It feels like Ryugujo’s music takes a quantum leap forward every time they release something new. This will… Read More »Song Review: Ryugujo – Deep Wave