As synthwave hit its stride over the past few years, it’s largely been a flood of the club-friendly, dancy variety. Acts like GosT, Carpenter Brut, Com Truise, Dan Terminus, and many, many others have carried the mantle, populating the scene with producers who fit a generally homogenous archetype. Somewhere along…
Editor’s Note: Longtime reader Remi VL is a regular guest contributor to our Release Day Roundup posts! He submitted several of the albums listed below. Join his Facebook group for more recommendations. Each month, we always seem to come to the same conclusion when it comes to our Editors’ Picks column: Friday release days open the floodgates and…
Bringing “the heavy” in new and interesting ways is tough, but Texas duo Pinkish Black have a way of making it sound easy. Frighteningly dark and drenched in desperation, they evoke everything from the more obvious horror-tinged vibes to ephemeral, unsettling tension. They’re never really heavy in the sense of…
There are few bands who can drastically alter the character and quality of their sound mid-stream and pull it off. It’s a huge risk that can alienate your fanbase and utterly destroy any momentum or success you had built to this point. Thankfully for Georgia post-rock group Maserati, that drastic evolution in their…
Relapse Records has come to be one of my all-time favorite record labels, but I always did wish that they would repress much of their back catalog to vinyl. Lately, they’ve made quite the effort to do just that: Mastodon’s Leviathan was quietly added to the Relapse webstore in a…
To be completely honest, I had no idea that Municipal Waste were working on a new album. However it seems the Waste will release The Fatal Flesh: Waste In Space as early as April through Nuclear Blast and while I wasn’t a huge fan of the ‘mature’ sound of Massive…
For some sad, sad reason, I had never heard of Zombi until moments before drafting this post; I’m listening to some of their stuff as I’m typing and I’m being blown away. How a spacey prog-rock duo (comprised of a bassist and drummer who both tinker away at synths) signed…
01. BARONESS – “Isak” 02. GENGHIS TRON – “I Wont Come Back Alive” 03. TOMBS – “Gossamer” 04. COALESCE – “Wild Ox Moan” 05. THE END – “The Never Ever Aftermath” 06. BURIED INSIDE – “V” 07. ZOMBI – “Orion” 08. BURNT BY THE SUN – “Inner Station” 09. THE…
