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The Shirts And Shoes Deliver A Righteous Riot To Yer Earholes With Sinner Swing

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Well, hot dang! The Shirts And Shoes are not effing around on Sinner Swing, their latest offering, which comes out of the gates, ahem, swinging big with eight seemingly unsuspecting songs that, when combined, create a sure contender for “Best Rawk Album of 2021”. A veritable treasure trove of tumultuous tracks, Sinner Swing evokes feelings so intense that they’re practically palpable so strap in and get comfortable because The Shirts And Shoes has returned and it’s sure to be a bumpy ride!

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Singles! Combichrist, “Compliance”

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I tend to avoid reviews of any sort upon a release date passing because who needs my opinion when you can make one yourself with the materials literally in the palm of your hand in most cases. However, in some cases like with this post, a track or body of music just yearns to be augmented a little more amongst the vast amount of music being perpetually amplified into your earholes. Like the latest from Combichrist which, I think, is one of the best pieces of modern Electro that the Aggrotech titans have been associated with in probably a decade or so.

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Lehnen Drives New Post-Goth Alternative Movement With Effervescent Negative Space

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Combining Space Rawk with elements of Prog as well as Goth and Post-everything tendencies, Lehnen create entire universes within each of the ten tracks presented here on their fourth full-length Negative Space. With their latest opus, words like expansive and epic can barely contain the scope that Lehnen bring to the world of music on an album that’s powerful, poignant, and potentially your next favorite of 2021.

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The Troops Of Doom Expand The Story Of Brazilian Thrash With Bombastic New Chapters On The Absence Of Light

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The Absence Of Light, the latest release from Brazil’s The Troops Of Doom, is a clear-cut and concise collection of cranium splitting Metal that’s not to be missed this year. Born from the creativity and drive of original Sepultura guitarist Jairo “Tormentor” Guedz, The Troops Of Doom takes that Brazilian Thrash that Guedz help engineer and combines it with an aesthetic much like Slayer’s base DNA to make something that’s leaner, meaner, and undeniably heavy.

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Alien Weaponry Usher In A New Global Heaviness With Tangaroa

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Less doubling down on the Sepultura/Gojira aspect of Alien Weaponry’s brand of World Metal, Tangaroa is intent to carve its’ own path by creating a defining moment for the young New Zealand trio and solidify their status as one of the brightest stars in the current heavy music scene.

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Singles! BAABES, “Greaseballs To Glitters”

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Boston’s BAABES is a rare find in that they don’t really sound like anything else out there. Like, when you hear a new tune of theirs a light immediately clicks on in the old noggin as if to automatically declare “That’s BAABES!” On their latest single, “Greaseballs To Glitters”, the quartet rawk and/or roll their way into another new anthem that’s instantly recognizable and undeniably, you guessed it, BAABES.

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Singles! Eldridge Rodriguez, “Megalodon/Alice Drills”

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I started 2021 by winning a pair of Hot Ones Reebok sneaks and the promise that live shows might actually happen again. And then people kept being stupid and live music is still in a state of flux…and I still haven’t worn those kicks outside yet. But through it all, stellar music continues to drop. Like the latest singles from Eldridge Rodriguez which, in a slight departure from last year’s stunning Slightest Of Treason full-length, sees the quartet treading new sonic territory.

But I digress.

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Bikini Death Race Transcend Eras And Genres On Eclectic Electro-Centric Refrigerator

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The RIYL section of the press release for Refrigerator from Bikini Death Race mentions Ladytron, Le Tigre, Kap Bambin and Light Aslyum but if you want the whole sonic portrait then you’ve GOT to add The Network, Devo, Wall Of Voodoo, and Shiny Toy Guns in there as well. Does that sound like a lot? Well, it is! But it all works. Especially considering that, despite all those comparisons, Bikini Death Race sound like Bikini Death Race.

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Stone Deaf Enthrall And Excite With Modern Day Desert Rawk Masterpiece Killers

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No other artist out in the wild is making music quite like Queens Of The Stone Age right now. Hell, QOTSA themselves has seemingly graduated to a whole new playing field of musical excellence themselves leaving this gaping hole for a new king or, ahem, queen to step up and lead the sub-genre. Which brings us to today and Colorado’s Stone Deaf who are looking to fill that void left by the California legends with their own brand of Desert Rawk on their third full-length, Killers.

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The Night Flight Orchestra Is A Band Out Of Time On Classic ’70’s And ’80’s-Fueled Rawker Aeromantic II

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Sure there will be the inevitable Toto, Night Ranger, and 38 Special references but diving into Aeromantic II is much more akin to experiencing Genesis’ earlier days with Phil Collins behind the mic (“Domino” Prog stuff especially…or Peter Gabriel’s earlier solo works if we’re on that Genesis line). Regardless of comparisons, with Aeromantic II The Night Flight Orchestra truly orchestrate a record that sounds like nothing being done in the modern music scene. It’s lovely and lively, electric, eccentric, and eclectic!

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