Wait! You’re telling us that not one, but potentially TWO records from REZN can make our end of the year list???? It’s true! Well, sort of. The Chicago outfit responsible for Solace earlier in 2023 (And reviewed by us here) has teamed with Mexico City’s resident sci-fi shredders Vinnum Sabathi for Blues Funeral’s PostWax series to bring us lucky fans seven tracks of meticulously crafted conceptual crushing catharsis called Silent Future.
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What is not to love about Linnea’s Garden?!?! Like a phoenix, Linnea’s Garden was borne out of the pandemic with a lust for life, a love of all the musics, and the generosity to share that gift with all of us. From their Bandcamp page for debut full-length Fashion Show they’re described as “post punk to indie rock to disco to grunge” which is pretty gotDamn accurate but what it doesn’t state is just how good they are at tackling and combining all those genres as seemingly effortlessly as they do!
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Ascension from Seattle’s Nox Novacula might be almost two years old at this point but who says we need to hold off on a review for something so rad just because it’s already out for the masses to hear? We’re reviewing a Huey Lewis anniversary album soon which we guarantee has been reviewed a TON and while Nox Novacula is no & The News (Can anyone really ever be, though?) we feel our comparison is still intact.
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How does one describe Sapling? Short answer: Ya Don’t! Long answer: They’re an incendiary fireball hurtling at your unsuspecting earholes at an aggressive pace… but in a good way. Make sense? No? Well, bear with us because it’s about to get weirder.
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It’s been 7 years, people! Seven years since Richard Patrick and company has delivered a whole Filter album. And sure, absence makes the heart grow fonder and all that, but with teases of new Filter dating back to 2020 when “Thoughts And Prayers” and “Murica” were released fans are now chomping at the bit for a new collection of solid Filter tunez. And that’s not to say that Patrick has been slacking in the years since Crazy Eyes dropped in 2016! Oh no! The prolific artist applied his craft to some film scores (Dark Crimes, Last Rampage), reunited with Nine Inch Nails briefly for their Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame shows, did a start/stop with original Filter cohort Brian Liesgang (Some songs from that new collaboration appear here), and recently teamed up with Jim Louvau to form A Place To Kill (With their debut single available now through Golden Robot Records here). But now it’s back to full on Filter mode and we couldn’t be happier because The Algorithm, Filter’s eighth full-length, is like a veritable best of from the Industrial Hard Rawk veterans.
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We’re proud to say that we were fans back in the day. Well, Mrs RNRF is more OG but still! We were there in the beginning! Even have a CD (Remember those???) of …Only Pieces Remain to show for it! And don’t even use it as a coaster! We jest because that record owned and birthed Swarm Of Eyes who are even ownier with their brand of modern Metal starting with a capital “M”! And now Motokops 2000 is back. Well, sort of.
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We’ve said it before and we’ll keep saying it: Albums that seemingly pop into existence out of nowhere (Read: Records we didn’t know were coming) are the best kinds of surprises for us. Like KIND, who already rule real hard and will be delivering their latest record to our collective earholes real soon.
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What weird, eclectic, and fierce record is this! News From The Invisible World, the latest from London’s The Fierce And The Dead and the first to feature vocals with bassist Kevin Feazey taking over those duties, is a wonderful blend of classic Prog and modern Hard Rawk that packs quite the wallop. If you’ve been into TFATD since their beginnings then Version 2.0 is sure to still hit in all the right places and if you’ve never heard the band before then you’re in for a treat!
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The next coming of Far? With some deftones-style dynamics and hum-like atmosphere thrown in for good measure? Does that sound good good to you? Then you’re going to LOVE the latest from Boston’s Mission To Sleep!
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“…bridging a gap between acts like Helmet, Karp, Handsome, and Quicksand with the sonic journeys of an Isis or Jesu”
If you, not only, know who Handsome is but can also proudly compare yourselves to them then you’re already alright in our book. It also helps that we dug the hell out of Brooklyn’s Somnuri before ever reading that as well and yeah, the above press release quote is pretty damn accurate especially as one dives into their third full-length Desiderium.
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