If you’re gonna go out then you may as well go out with a bang, right? Well, the soon-to-be-departing Project 86 is finishing up their storied run with a legacy solidifying slab of material that begins on OMNI Part 1 which is the closest one can get to recreating that first time you heard the Orange County outfit. Is it a religious experience? Possibly. A defining one? Most definitely.
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On paper, The Banishment is one weird ass concept. Take a legendary guitar god like George Lynch (Dokken, Lynch Mob, etc) and transplant his art into a world inhabited by Ministry and Filter on the regular. That’s right, we’re talking Industrial Metal as the main course of what The Banishment’s serving up to yer earholes. But y’know what? It works. Extremely well.
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Believe it or not, the second record from Witch Ripper is actually the second Sludge Rawk-type artist from Seattle we’re readying a review for. And! This beast also comes out on March 3rd! How do you like them apples?
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There’s so much joy to be had in Enveletration, the fourth full-length from Seattle’s Sandrider. It’s a celebration from start to finish with equal parts old school Baroness, Unsane, early At The Drive-In, and ASG somewhere in the mix as well as a whole lotta heft, heaviness, and heart.
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We’re on the road to the release of the Loud, Bright and Violent EP and Boston’s Sunshine Riot is unveiling yet another slab of Steve Albini-recorded modern Alt for the masses with the release of the slick, suave, and steady sounding “So It Comes”.
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We’re suckers for Goth Rawk, okay? If we press “play” on a given record and we’re instantly transported to our favorite local club nights where the minimum dress code is “all black everything” then we’re in. And Bristol’s NAUT do that on their debut full-length Hunt so again, we’re in. Simple as that.
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Like a lot of the Metal world, we were initially blown away by Hammerhedd when that Sepultura medley started making the rounds back in 2017 (Check it out here if you missed it). Since then the trio of Ismert brothers (Take that, Max and Iggor!) has spent their days honing their craft, expanding their sound, and creating a pretty rad debut full-length with 2021’s Grand Currents. Cut to today and the boys are back in town with 52 minutes of even heavier Metal and a sophomore opus that’s every bit as brilliant as their first yet something else entirely with added dimensions and depth to their established Nu-Thrash sound.
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We find it hard to believe that you’ll find a more eclectic concoction of heaviness in the year 2023 beyond what Dublin’s No Spill Blood is offering with their latest outing, Eye Of Night. Like this synthetic orchestra mixed with a diabolically visceral noise experiment, No Spill Blood’s newest LP is an incredible amalgamation of sound that worships the heavy in a lush, vibrant world.
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We’ll take “Bands That Really BROUGHT IT in 2023” for $2000, Alex! Whoa. Just, whoa. Can that be our review? Solace, the latest from Chicago’s REZN is a transformative listening experience. It’s an album that can easily be enjoyed in parts but, in reality, is best enjoyed as a whole. That said, when you do choose to dive fully into Solace, and you definitely will choose to do so, make sure you set aside some tiiiime to enjoy it all at once.
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We’re going to look back on this post and feel it’s incredibly dated but who cares! In a week that’s brought tour announcements from The Sisters Of Mercy, Skinny Puppy, and Duran Duran with news of actual happenings from The Cure also imminently on the way, it’s fitting that Nick Holmes’ and Greg Mackintosh’s HOST comes to light and sees release later this month as its’ darkened New Wave Electro Rawk is a fairly nice cornucopia of all that noise and then some.
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