Let’s play a word association game. (Remember those pesky ACT/SAT questions?) Reno’s Four Stroke Baron are to new wave what dark synthwave is to…
There’s an odd notion that established or legacy acts rarely get better with age, and while the majority of cases can lead to a…
Swiss group Cortez were among the many fantastic post-metalcore groups to come out of the Basement Apes label a few years ago (see also:…
Bitch Hawk are about as unique and joyfully perplexing as their moniker. The Stockholm, Sweden-based group traffic in a brand of heavy tunes that…
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Monuments’ latest is a masterclass in prudence, taking the title of their third record very literally. The exact meaning of the Ancient Greek word…
Black Peaks’ Rise Records debut (and second overall) proves that technical tunes can meet up with heady subject matter and still result in an…
Coming straight out of Logan Heights, San Diego’s Beach Goons are much more than the sum of the collective noise they make on hoodratscumbags,…
Photo by Scott Kinkade The kings of the Philly underground are here to remind the world how death metal is done, but they’ve also…
There is a subtle but distinct separation between the strange and the absurd, and Norwegian experimental act MANES embrace the former and the latter…