by Nathaniel Fitzgerald | May 24, 2023 | Album Reviews
I’m sure there were several albums that came out last week. But if you were to take a look at my social media feeds, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the only record that came out was Take Me Back to Eden by Sleep Token. The anonymous British prog-metal...
by Nathaniel Fitzgerald | May 19, 2023 | Album Reviews
I’ve always had a hard time wrapping my mind around Heretoir. While they seemed to be very much in the European blackgaze scene (Fursy from Les Discrets even did the artwork for their debut), they didn’t feel like an easy fit with those peers. Their...
by Nathaniel Fitzgerald | May 17, 2023 | Album Reviews
There are a lot of things we’ve come to expect from The Acacia Strain across their twenty-year-plus career. They’ve built their career creating brutal deathcore like they were writing a textbook on the subject, utilizing a triple-guitar lineup to make for...
by Nathaniel Fitzgerald | May 5, 2023 | Album Reviews
It’s sometimes difficult to remember that grunge and sludge were smelted in similar swamps. The down-tuned volcanic crawl of sludge bears little resemblance to bands like Puddle of Mudd, Creed, and that one from Canada that seem to have inherited grunge from...
by Nathaniel Fitzgerald | May 4, 2023 | Premieres
We are pleased to premiere “Am I Not Talking Enough,” the new single from Brooklyn-via-Charleston indie quartet Tennis Courts. The track is pensive and gorgeous, opening with acoustic strums accompanying subdued vocals, swelling with atmospheric treatments...
