Photo: Sam Nikitas Interview with multi-instrumentalist Tim Macuga Consumer features Tim Macuga from Have a Nice Life (HANL), as well as musicians from that project’s live lineup – bassist Mike Cameron, drummer, programmer and synth player Rich Otero, and guitarist…
Los Angeles-based slowcore outfit Sprain have joined the ranks of The Flenser. Formed in 2018 by Alex Kent and April Gerloff, the group focus…
Celebrating 10 years of signing artists who push the envelope of what is possible within the realm of heavy music and beyond, dark and…
It starts suddenly. A cool, noir beat thumps while a nasally voice reads. When “A Mirror” goes into its first chorus, it even sounds…
Elizabeth Colour Wheel play beautifully bizarre music on their debut album Nocebo, out March 15 on The Flenser. Trying to categorize the songs according…
At the peak of ’70s Cold War tension, post punk acted as a window into a society living in the shadowy, brutalist architecture of…
Ails are making a major impact on the melodic death metal scene with their first release, The Unraveling. The group formed from the remains of…
Artists will be hard-pressed to beat Drowse’s Cold Air in 2018 for dark, depressive music. Drowse is the alias of Kyle Bates, a musician prone to…
From the sky drop waves of life, splashing your brow and mixing into pools of eternity. You will melt eventually—we all will. Drowse—the project…
Sutekh Hexen/Hissing Split (The Flenser) Seattle’s Hissing likes to describe their take of black/death metal as “bad times music”. After just a few seconds…
