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. [...]
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 [...]
Where have you been all our lives, The Freqs??? On the surface, checking out Poachers from The Freq’s and you can see where comparisons to early Royal Blood (2014’s self-titled in particular) or Queens Of The Stone Age and their Lullabies To Paralyze daze might come in but when you [...]
What a weird, wonderful clusterfuck of sounds Superterrestrial bring to our collective earholes with some “Space-themed Black Metal” on their latest effort, The Fathomless Decay. Add in an overall haunting and menacing atmosphere to all the heaviness that comes off like a nasty wraith who just won’t leave you alone [...]
With One Last Look Upon The Sky, Manchester, New Hampshire’s Dust Prophet has managed to craft something that’s akin to the epic thematic storytelling of Kyuss’ monstrous Sky Valley record told through the rawness of Wretch or Clutch’s self-titled. It’s a beautiful Desert Rawk opus that captures the spirit of [...]
There’s something comforting in the knowledge of how amazing We Are Scientists has evolved over the years. Especially when considering how many of their contemporaries of the mid-aughts yielded many a one hit wonder/album and then went the way of the Dodo or just transmogrified into something different entirely (Looking [...]
