Being conservative with the stats, let’s say 90% of music videos today are garbage. Straight up. Garbage. We don’t care that you and your band have worked out how to synchronise your wardrobe and headbangs. No one does. Thankfully, the music video we’re debuting for you today couldn’t be any…
Since its inception, metal has been a genre of music that never lacked a flair for the dramatic. Even Black Sabbath’s earliest records were stuffed with stories intended to shock and disturb, and metal’s trajectory hasn’t changed since. While metal as a whole is as diverse in theme and approach…
Around this time last year I was lamenting the paltry state of post-rock-centric or at least post-rock-heavy festivals in the US. With Europe being covered by the likes of dunk!festival, VIVID, and ArcTangent, it’s difficult to not look inward and be jealous or frustrated. However, in that same post I…
I don’t need to remind you that 2019 has already been an exceedingly impressive year for instrumental post-rock and math rock. We’re not even fully midway, and I can easily identify a solid dozen or so albums that will be in heavy contention for my personal top 50 of the…
I remember the moment I first laid my eyes on the upcoming Driving Slow Motion album. Billed as cinematic and emotional post-rock, my attention was immediately drawn to it, upon which I saw that it was titled Arda and had songs on it with names like “The Way the World…
Of all the many subgenres in the death metal world, death-doom tends (for me) to be the most hit and miss. Perhaps it’s my own expectations regarding albums in this particular category, but it often feels that they lean too far to one side or the other, making the blending…
It’s my birthday today, but I’m here to give YOU a gift, via NYT LIV, Indisciplinarian Records, and Earsplit PR. If you’ve been paying attention (have you?) then you’ll have seen this Danish melodic hardcore mob pop up here over the last few weeks; the Copenhagen crew taking part in…
Alright folks, the band is called Slomatics so you know what time it is. That’s right, it’s time for fuzz, slow riffs, and a pressure is blank and as pitiless as the sun (yeah, that’s a Yeats reference, what are you going to do, arrest me?) Gearing up (get it)…
It’s really hard to find good power metal these days. I’m not saying it’s not out there but it’s buried deep within layers and layers of bands that don’t seem to understand that imitation only works if you add a layer of your own personality to it. Tanagra, however, understand…
Yes, that’s an archaeology pun. Yes, I know I’m cancelled, let’s move on. A few weeks ago, I told you to listen to Archaeologist, a one man project with far ranging collaborations and influences. The music was of the instrumental progressive persuasion and showed plenty of promise. What’s more, the…
