A gargantuan-sounding and, frankly, ghoulish entrant for this year’s ultimate Spooky SZN album, Candy Coffins’ Once Do It With Feeling is a rollicking romp through the graveyard that’s filled with an abundance of timeless tracks that’ll leave a lasting impression well after the last candle in your Jack-o’-lantern has burned through its’ wick.
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Much like legendary musical chameleons David Bowie or Madonna, KMFDM’s Lucia Cifarelli traverses a tantalizing line that subverts genres and dwells in a place that’s all things Electro, Industrial, Pop, and more on I Am Eye. Speaking of the Material Girl, Cifarelli’s first solo outing in nearly twenty years is almost like an Industrial-tinged Confessions On A Dance Floor where it takes a known quantity and transplants it into a glorious new sonic world to give fans the follow-up to From the Land of Volcanos that’s more than worth the wait.
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Singles are a tough cookie to crack. Sometimes it’s a great preview of what’s to come and other times, they’re something completely out of left field meant to snag a new audience (Lookin’ at you, Sugar Ray’s “Fly”). As a reviewer/writer/blogger/editor-type person, singles can be an even tougher pill to swallow especially with an album on the way: Do we review both? One or the other? You don’t wanna oversaturate the old tl’s and you definitely don’t want to be redundant when talking about a band or a particular single either separate from or within a review. For us it’s a matter of not having enough hours in the day to cover everything so in a case like Already Dead where we were, ahem, already diggin’ the singles, having the album come relatively soon after the first taste is a godsend because we can skip the middleman and bring you the whole shebang in one fell swoop. So let’s go!
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We first got sucked into the magic that is Caustic Casanova with the release of the trio of Pantheon EP’s which we mentioned in our review for their last badass beast called God How I Envy The Deaf (Released in 2019 and can be read all about right here) and can safely say that it’s no small task to follow ALL of that up. But the quartet from Washington, D.C. managed to do just that with their fifth LP that looks like an EP but sounds like a double LP. Get all that? You will!
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The band formerly known as Steak Number Eight is back with a brutiful (Brutal + beautiful!) new opus that’s not so much the next logical progression from the Stake rebrand on 2018’s Critical Method but more a gargantuan leap up the evolutionary ladder of heaviness into what could be the Belgium quartet’s final form.
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Nothing quite pulls at ye olde heartstrings like some great throwback ’90’s Alt-Rawk. We’re not talking Grunge, which ran parallel to the burgeoning Alternative scene of the ’90’s, we’re talking the Sugar’s of the world and the Hum’s with walls of sound and fuzzy guitar sounds and vocals that seemingly float on air and a kind of magic that Cold Gawd has seemingly masterfully brought into the present for a new generation with God Get Me The Fuck Out Of Here.
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The perfect soundtrack for the incoming 2022 edition of Spooky Season, Frayle’s sophomore outing is haunting and heavy, existing in an ethereal space that’s both exciting and engaging. With Skin & Sorrow, the Cleveland outfit has upped the ante of what “beauty in the breakdown” truly means combining elements of Goth, Doom, Post-Rawk, and even Prog at times to give listeners an otherworldly listening experience that truly transcends.
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We’re just gonna come out and say it: No Sympathy packs a WALLOP! Hot on the heels of Mania, the second release from Boston’s Lurid Purple Flowers THIS YEAR delivers four new tracks that are simultaneously delightful and devastating and a sort of anti-Sap in the way this Indie-Grunge trio bring the loud to our earholes.
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Not even parts of a whole anymore but fans of KMFDM’s beginnings have surely been getting a treat these last few years with that Industrial juggernaut still rolling along after 30+ years and Raymond Watts’ PIG back in full swing since 2016 and, more often than not, utilizing the talents of fellow former KMFDMer’s like En Esch and Steve White (As well as axe-master Gunter Schulz who does not feature on this particular record) as is the case with PIG’s latest outing The Merciless Light.
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We’re biased when it comes to Massachusetts-based artists, okay? And we’ve stated that many, many, many, MANY times in these pages. It helps a lot that our local scene seems to rule on the regular and with that said, we bring you the upcoming full-length from Lowell’s Tysk Tysk Task which not only rules on the regular but delights on the daily! Cheesy statement? No doubt. Totally accurate? Oh, hells yes!
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