Since their late-2020 debut, BAE173 have cycled through various boy group tropes — some more successful than others. To me, they’re at their best when revisiting an overwrought, emotional second-gen sound. Tracks like Annoyed and Loved You give them their own niche in the current… Read More »Song Review: BAE173 – Fifty-Fifty
Plenty of artists ape the stylings of ’70s and ’80s but Armagh do it with a level of authenticity that’s hard to do. Drawing inspiration from ’70s hard rock, classic ’80s heavy metal and first-wave black metal, their new album Exclamation Point is a melodic, alluring album that… Read More »Full Album Stream: Armagh – “Exclamation Point”
Where they from? Kaiserslautern, Germany. Normally I chat about sports or other bullshit in this intro section but this weekend Blake Harrison of Pig Destroyer passed away and I just want to pay him a little tribute. Blake was one of the first people I… Read More »Blast Worship: Last Bong of Humanity
– March 12th, 2024 – New Video/Single Now Playing + Pre-orders Available Photo by Alan Swan Watch DVNE’s “Plerõma” HERE Scottish progressive post-metal act DVNE will release their new full-length, Voidkind, on April 19th via Metal Blade Records. Formed in Edinburgh in 2013 by Frenchman… Read More »Dvne: Scottish Progressive Post-Metal Collective to Release “Voidkind” April 19th on Metal Blade Records
Almost immediately upon forming in 1999, Early Day Miners have been a canonical slowcore band. From 2000 to 2011 they reliably pumped out seven LPs of languid, terse, and tense indie rock; their sound fell somewhere between the expansive minimalism of Low and the endlessly… Read More »Video Premiere: Early Day Miners – “Amends”