January is, historically speaking, not a great month for new music. If anything, the first quarter of the year often feels like the music industry’s expulsion of its unwanted end-of-year leftovers, cleaning the slate for bigger, more profitable spring and summer releases. Though this may be the trend in the…
Last year, Portugal’s Gaerea blew me away with one of the more expansive and adventurous black metal records I’d heard in a good while in Unsettling Whispers. When I heard that members of the band had formed a death-doom project called Oak I low key lost my mind. “Sculptures”, the…
OAK are a grimy hardcore/screamo band from Jönköping, Sweden that demand your attention. They just released a video for ‘Torn Down/Tearing Down’ off of their debut album Oak, and the track is vicious. If you’d like to do a bit of hate moshing this morning, I’d suggest you check out the video after the…
