Black metal is well-renowned for it’s capacity for blazing fury and aggression. But in the last several years, many bands have taken this darkest of arts and honed it in ways that are more pensive and contemplative. Verwoed is definitely one of those bands, and… Read More »Full Album Stream: Verwoed – “The Mother”
You may not be familiar with Mustard Gas & Roses—MGR for short—but you are almost certainly familiar with main man Mike Gallagher, who spent nearly a decade and a half with post-metal titans Isis. Originally begun as a sort of side project and becoming a more… Read More »Full Album Stream: MGR – “Glacier’s Wake”
Out today in conjunction with the full moon, Magana’s Teeth wraps up snapshots from singer Jeni Magaña’s past in a lush and mesmerizing soundscape, each track feeling like an invocation of a particular memory, feeling, or train of thought. Instrumentally, Teeth is a mosaic, with crunchy guitars,… Read More »Track by Track: Magana – ‘Teeth’
I don’t know why the name “ME:I” makes me giggle, but it does. It sounds like something you’d come up with from a random K-pop name generator. In fact, ME:I are a J-pop act, formed through the latest season of Produce 101 Japan. But like… Read More »Song Review: ME:I – Click
HYBE’s empire continues to grow with the debut of new girl group ILLIT. They’re under subsidiary Belift Lab and formed through the series R U Next?. They’re the first of a few new girl groups emerging this week, and their debut single Magnetic feels perfectly… Read More »Song Review: ILLIT – Magnetic