In a year that has already had Rhys Fulber put out a new Front Line Assembly record, team again with FLA cohort Bill Leeb for the surprise re-emergence of Noise Unit, and work on the final Fear Factory record to feature vocalist Burton C. Bell among other achievements, the prolific producer extraordinaire and electronic wizard has deemed it necessary to also unveil his latest solo release to cap off 2021 and we’re all the better for it.
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The KVB is one of those artists that is so consistent that a review is almost unnecessary at this point because fans know that when it comes to the duo of Kat Day and Nicholas Wood, it’s basically guaranteed that what you’re getting is a work of art. Like their latest full-length, Unity, which is one of The KVB’s most solid records to date and an easy spoiler for folks who’ve already made up their minds on what their supposed “Best Of 2021” is already.
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After experiencing the dismal new Dune firsthand I have concluded that the only spice needed in my life should come from Penzeys’s or from the Los Angeles-based outfit that we’re talking about in this post you’re currently reading. You read that right, folks! I didn’t like the new Dune! No, wait. The only SPICE being mentioned in these pages from now on concerns the killer band who put out one of our most favorite records of 2020 and who has an equally killer new EP slated for release soon.
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More akin to a barrel-aged whiskey than a fine wine, Black Label Society has only gotten better and better over the years. The recent outings especially from Zakk Wylde and his motley crew of Rawkers have been some their best to date in our humble opinion and with their eleventh record, Doom Crew Inc., fast approaching BLS look to have outdone themselves again.
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What. An. Album. Not necessarily a throwback so much as it’s a celebration of the origins of Grunge and Alternative, the sophomore scorcher from LA-based Kills Birds is a 2021 essential listening experience that manages to also flip those respective genres on their heads and take them in a righteously rawkin’ new direction.
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On the one hand, I typically despise writing about remix records but on the other, I love the Lord Of Lard. That said, I’ve recently come to the realization (Or was it a revelation?) that a remix album done right is akin to a new album unto itself utilizing the ebb and flow a regular record would have in place. As is the case with Drugged, Dangerous, & Damned which takes that embedded Raymond Watts DNA found in all the tracks and tweaks them to somehow dig down deeper in the roots to present listeners with a coherent collection of tracks that’s like classic KMFDM and early Skinny Puppy. In fact, the only flaw found here is the fact that the release should’ve been timed more perfectly to actually coincide with Halloween. We’ll take five days removed, though, and move on.
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I don’t know what a “multidimensional trio” is but I do know that if all of them sound like Glassing do then sign me up for an annual subscription! Twin Dream is the third full-length from the Texas outfit and for the uninitiated, it mixes the visceral ferocity and technical prowess of Goes Cube with Neurosis’ bludgeoning behemothian presence and puts a frontperson whose presence is as diabolically diverse as Jacob Bannon behind the mic.
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Who says that “Evil Disco” died with Wayne Static??? Certainly not New Hampshire’s Temptress who might be the unofficial torchbearers for the heavy subgenre. Especially with the release of their latest which leans into the more Electro Metal elements of their sound which combines the teutonic stomp of Rammstein with the Nu-Industrial that Static-X and Professional Murder Music did so well.
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I’ll be honest. A lot of posts on here are us playing catch up on something we wanted to feature but, for some reason or another (Read: there are still not 30 hours in a day), we didn’t. Which brings us to today and PLUSH who enthralled us back in February when they dropped “Hate”. We thought this hook-laden killer anthem was a classic then so imagine our surprise to learn that “Hate” is just the tip of the iceberg on a debut full-length filled with more tunes that Rawk even harder and give listeners thirteen tracks that are just as momentous as they are memorable.
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What a wild trip it is to hear former The Icarus Line vocalist Joe Cardamone team up with the legendary Mark Lanegan (Screaming Trees, The Gutter Twins, etc) for a project that sounds absolutely nothing like any of their previous outfits. On the self-titled debut from the duo dubbed Dark Mark Vs Skeleton Joe fans get an experimental Electro-fused romp through Darkwave and more on a heady head trip from two powerhouses of modern music.
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