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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
