You can’t go wrong with a band that shows the kind of dichotomy in their sound that Temple of the Fuzz Witch does! One song is straight fire with vicious vocals to match the vicious sounds produced through the instruments while the next is a sanguine (There’s a song titled that on the record even!) soliloquy that evokes the sort of emotion not often felt from a heavy ass record such as Apotheosis.
[Read more…]I Ya Toyah Brings The Heat On Genre-Bending New EP I am the Fire
By now you’ve heard the bulk of what’s to come from Chicago’s I Ya Toyah on her upcoming new EP I am the Fire save for the title track which is the only one of the three originals on here (Plus two remixes) not previously released. But you haven’t heard our take! Which is pretty stellar because, let’s face it that when it comes to I Ya Toyah it’s all stellar.
[Read more…]Robotic Hawks Get Down To The Business Of Rawk On Their Way To The 2024 Rock & Roll Rumble With New EP All Business
It’s Rumble SZN, everyone! And with that comes a time to not only revisit some artists we’ve already covered here (Like in our massive Preliminary Round preview pieces that have been steadily popping up recently) but for some of those same artists to drop timely new material ahead of their showcases. Like Hudson, NH’s Robotic Hawks who have a new EP slated to arrive slightly ahead of their opening night set on the last night of the Preliminary Rounds over at Middle East Upstairs on Saturday, April 13th.
[Read more…]Horndal Honor Alrik Andersson With Heady Heaviness Of Head Hammer Man
What a beast of a band! We will never not love us some Proggy Metal when executed right and in the case of Sweden’s Horndal and their latest record, they have executed their brand of heaviness perfectly. Also, how cool is a name like Head Hammer Man for an album title??? It’s also reflective of the album’s hero, the very real Alrik Andersson, who in 1909 in the also real town of Horndal led his fellow ironworkers against the steel company for their jobs and rights.
[Read more…]I Ya Toyah: A Rock And Roll Fables Conversation
If you dig any kind of iteration of modern Electro or Industrial then I Ya Toyah has something for you! And with upcoming EP (Our review is due soon), I am the Fire, fans get a taste of that broad spectrum over just 5 tracks. It also helps that this particular outing was produced by Stabbing Westward’s own Walter Flakus AND features SW vocalist Christopher Hall on one of the tracks (The just released “Dream Not A Dream” remix). That said, the new release is just the tip of the iceberg on what looks to be a banner year for I Ya Toyah with teases of even more new music coming, some high profile tours already booked (Cold Waves!) and so much more! Recently, we were lucky enough to get the opportunity to chat with I Ya Toyah over email about all the recent buzz, defining the “I Ya Toyah sound”, and what makes a collaboration work among other topics all of which you can read below:
[Read more…]RNRF X Rock & Roll Rumble 2024: Week 1, Night 3
Moving right along aaaaaand we’ve made it to the end of Week 1 and the competition is already FIERCE! On this particular night we’ve got veterans of the Boston Music Scene battling against relative noobs (Read: novices) that still sound like they’re 4 albums deep only a few years into a burgeoning career. And with that said, we present the 4 bands representing Night 3 of the 2024 Rock & Roll Rumble:
[Read more…]Singles! GUT HEALTH, “CONVERSATION LOST”
If you thought that GUT HEALTH’s debut single, “RUNAWAY HIGH”, was out of this world then just wait until you hear the follow-up. For those just tuning in, GUT HEALTH is a 508-based supergroup featuring members of Herra Terra, Ian Sweet, Gloss Goddess, Orange Island, usLights, and Not Bad Not Well to name a few. In fact, our initial edit of new track “CONVERSATION LOST” said that vocally they were similar to Not Bad Not Well until we realized that they share the same singer in Gregg Kusumah-Atmadja (For the record, we proudly own it when we fuck up or dive right in on the rare occasion when we’re not being more thorough).
[Read more…]RNRF X Rock & Roll Rumble 2024: Week 1, Night 2
We made it through Night 1! Or we will. For now, we’ve just made it through the first post about the Preliminary rounds so there’s a long way to go both in our postings and in, y’know, the actual shows that have so much behind the scenes work put into them ahead of time (Thanks, Anngelle Wood and Boston Emissions among others) before bands even hit the stage. Like they will once again at Middle East Upstairs on Friday, April 5th (See what we did there???) Anyway, our purported cleverness aside let’s see what Night 2 holds:
[Read more…]RNRF X Rock & Roll Rumble 2024: Week 1, Night 1
Can one have multiple “It’s the most wonderful time of the year…” parts of a year? Like, we dig the hell out of October. Because Spooky Szn. And November. Because it’s our (Read: RNRF) birthday month. So, Fall in general. But this sweet spot in in April when the Rock & Roll Rumble returns and Salem Horror Fest is right around the corner is quickly becoming our JAM!
[Read more…]Wristmeetrazor Whip Up Potpourri Of Profound Pummeling On Degeneration
“Metalcore” might be the term to best describe the overall Wristmeetrazor sound but the more and more we listen to third outing Degeneration, the more and more we hear the chaotic initial end of Nu-Metal that saw lots of outfits combining seemingly everything to see what stuck and what didn’t. On Degeneration, everything’s sticking.
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