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EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE: Listen to Crown Channel “Shades” of Cold Aggression

March 4, 2021

Genres grow and die; things are in flux. The waves of musical styles meet, clash, and break apart only to meet once again in the future and create something new. Take the many transformations of the milieu whi... Read More...

EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE: Come Bask In Countless Skies’ “Glow”

Eden Kupermintz

November 2, 2020

Premieres

Every year, there's a few albums which make me remember why I do this, why I inundate myself with so much music (I'm probably past the 1,000 albums listened mark this year). They erupt from out of my headphone... Read More...

Rapidfire Roundup – Bleed From Within, Currents, and Ebonivory

Joshua Bulleid

June 2, 2020

Reviews

Bleed From Within - Fracture Bleed From Within really hit their stride with their previous record, Era (2018) – returning after an almost-five year absence with an album that stripped away a lot of their death... Read More...

Playlist Swap // 5/6/2020

Nate Johnson

May 6, 2020

Playlist Swap

Even a cursory glance of our biweekly playlist updates will reveal that there is a great deal of variety among our staff’s musical tastes. Due to this, we brainstormed the idea of Playlist Swap, wher... Read More...

Lesoir – Mosaic

Scott Murphy

April 27, 2020

Reviews

Among the small pleasures of listening to music, it's satisfying when an album title perfectly encapsulates the narrative played out in the track list. Such is the case with Lesoir's fifth album Mosaic, a coll... Read More...

EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE: Face Death With Perihelion’s “Rejtek”

Eden Kupermintz

December 4, 2019

News

Last week, I reviewed Perihelion's Agg, an album which augments post-black with plenty of psychedelic, melancholic, and even gothic influences. During the review, I cited the unmistakable influences of bands l... Read More...

Perihelion – Agg

Eden Kupermintz

November 27, 2019

Reviews

We all know where post-black metal is coming from, black metal of course, but where is it going to? As the sub-genre draws close to double digit age, what is the purpose of post-black? The initial infatuation ... Read More...

Disco Loadout – September 2019: Voyager, Jo Quail, Heathens To Murgatroyd

Simon Clark

October 10, 2019

News

The Load In With the festival season now (mostly) behind us, September is usually the beginning of peak gigging season for me, running through to a couple of weeks before Christmas. But not this year, becau... Read More...

Manes – Slow Motion Death Sequence

Eden Kupermintz

August 16, 2018

Reviews

Hidden histories are a tricky thing. On one hand, they're everywhere, untold stories bubbling beneath the surface of clean, accepted narratives. They're also fascinating in their obscurity, inviting a host of r... Read More...

With the End In Mind – Unraveling; Arising

Eden Kupermintz

July 5, 2018

Premieres, Reviews

Editor's Note: it is our extreme pleasure today to be premiering this album alongside reviewing it. If you'd like to listen along as you read this review, please scroll all the way to the bottom first to find t... Read More...

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