“Empire Falls” by Toronto’s Elizabeth Leslie is everything I love in my Synth-Pop/Darkwave: Apocalyptic, ominous, and most importantly, danceable.
A brutal, breathing behemoth in four parts which is beyond epic, Oldblood’s debut EP release has more masterful Metal within its’ short space than many a full-length released this year.
Sometimes a song just strikes you so hard that it’s hard to form coherent thoughts or adequately describe what you’re feeling due to the flood of emotions that it evokes. “Static Swell” by Nashville’s Palm Ghosts is that kind of song.
Filling ALL your monolithic epic banger quotas this fall, the latest from Belgian Post-Sludgelords Pothamus is monumentally monolithic. It’s huge! It’s heavy! It’s heavenly! It’s all the adjectives and adverbs and, quite simply, astounding.
Scour is a weird animal. Mixing a variety of genres yet grounded in none of them, Phil Anselmo’s band of brothers take Metal, Grindcore, Black Metal, and more and fuse it into this unstoppable, indefinable force. On their newest release, and final part of the trilogy preceded by The Grey [...]
2020 is a garbage year. We can all agree on that, yeah? One of the shining lights, at least in my little corner of the universe, has been the abundance of surprise releases in the entertainment industry. Especially in music. Just recently saw eclectic Electronic impresario Tom Vek (Check it [...]