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Glacier Ready The Soundtrack Of Your Fall With Grand Post-Metal Opus A Distant, Violent Shudder

If you’re in serious need of/can’t wait for Pelican’s next slab of awesomesauce that’s (as of now) due in 2025 then by all means, the upcoming new record from Glacier is for you. However, while the complex instrumental heaviness similarities might be your gateway into Glacier we’re pretty sure that [...]

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DnA’s Evolution Get Crafty And Creative On Expansive Third LP Curious of Nothing

We’re big fans of fuzzy Rawk at the RNRF offices especially when done well and ESPECIALLY if it happens to be both (Done well + Fuzzy Rawk). Massachusetts’ DnA’s Evolution ticks off both those boxes on the regular and do it gloriously on their latest full-length, Curious of Nothing, which [...]

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Vended Vanquish Comparisons On Stunning Self-Titled Debut

The comparisons to that band are gonna be inevitable so might as well just get them out of the way now, right? Elephant in the room: 2 of the 5 members of Vended happen to be the offspring of 2 of the 9 (Is it still 9???) members of a [...]

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Amiensus Aim To Reclaim The Top Heavy Spot In 2024 With Reclamation Pt.II

Look, to be clear, Amiensus’ Reclamation Pt.I which arrived in April was a stellar entry into an already dynamic catalog. That said, Reclamation Pt.II blows all of that away. Definitely our most favorite from the Minnesota collective, possibly their best to date, and most certainly their heaviest. In fact! We [...]

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Nox Novacula Fan The Flame Of Masterfully Made Modern Post-Rawk On Feed The Fire

The term “All killer, no filler” was made for an album like Feed The Fire and a band like Seattle’s Nox Novacula. Like its’ predecessor, 2021’s Ascension, FTF is a slim less than ten tracks of just stunning Goth-flavored Post-Rawk that yanks the torch carried by Bauhaus and Joy Division [...]

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Already Dead Fuse SoCal Punk With Blue Collar Badassery For Something Like A War

With the amount of material that’s been previewed ahead of its’ release, Already Dead’s Something Like A War is something like a “Greatest Hits” because of the awareness of a lot of the new music out, ahem, already. Which is fine by us as we can’t seem to get enough [...]

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