Remember when it was okay to smile…or when something just made you feel really happy? Music does that for me constantly even through all of the current lunacy in the world and it’s artists like Carissa Johnson who keep giving me reasons to turn that perennial frown upside down.
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“Fuck yeah! I’m winning!”
As far as I’m concerned and echoing Craig Riggs’ opening statement on the newest KIND record, we’re all winning when it comes to Mental Nudge.
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The always reliable Suicide Commando is back with a short blast of Industrial/Electro mayhem that will overload your senses and make you yearn for the days when you could dance like no one is watching actually in public at your favorite club.
But I digress.
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Listening through the opening salvo from Powdered, the fourth full-length from Cavern is like listening to the yearning of Dallas Green off early Alexisonfire records combined with the complexity of anything the Deftones do. The record is dense and daring, profound, prolific, alluring, and downright amazing.
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I know I post a lot about diamonds in the rough while going through the digital promos that come my way on the daily but it is genuinely exciting to discover a new favorite by sheer luck sometimes. Black Magnet is the latest gem and as a lifelong Industrial fan, I can say that this monstrous debut really owns.
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“Delightfully different” is the most appropriate description when talking about Manchester, New Hampshire’s Temptress. Breaking out of the Industrial genre after “Chemical” debuted last Halloween (Read all about it in our review here), Against All Odds offers up three brand new tracks that explore the trio’s sound even more by incorporating Electro, Soul, Hard Rawk, and even Hip-Hop to create this immensely interesting musical entity that’s sure to be your new favorite thing.
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I have a habit of going through my Facebook memories on the daily especially now just to see how life was when it all wasn’t such a daily shitshow. More often than not I mention music of some sort and one of my recent past searches reminded me of how brilliant the lone release from Vista Chino was. Hailing from Bradford, UK, Psychlona inhabit that brilliance wholly yet forge a bold new path forward to bring Desert Rawk into its’ next logical phase of existence. And if you think that statement was heavy then just wait until you experience Psychlona’s Venus Skytrip in full!
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Can AshenMoon’s debut full-length please be out already? Of the (now) three singles released thus far, the relatively new quartet has stacked an impressive deck of Pop-infused Rawk songs that show depth and diversity as they also inject their own blend of New Wave, groove-based sounds into something that is distinctive and uniquely AshenMoon.
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Holy! Shit! BILE! Is! Back! Apologies! For! The! Exclamations! We! Are! That! Excited!
But! I! Digress!
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Pressing play on any number of music that crosses my digital desk is, to be blunt, a crap shoot which presents just as many risks (To my ears) as it does rewards (Again, to my ears). Which brings us to Austin, Texas’ Hinayana who deliver humongous aural rewards (To my ears AND yours) when it comes to their upcoming EP, Death Of The Cosmic.
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