We’re big fans of fuzzy Rawk at the RNRF offices especially when done well and ESPECIALLY if it happens to be both (Done well + Fuzzy Rawk). Massachusetts’ DnA’s Evolution ticks off both those boxes on the regular and do it gloriously on their latest full-length, Curious of Nothing, which [...]
The comparisons to that band are gonna be inevitable so might as well just get them out of the way now, right? Elephant in the room: 2 of the 5 members of Vended happen to be the offspring of 2 of the 9 (Is it still 9???) members of a [...]
Look, to be clear, Amiensus’ Reclamation Pt.I which arrived in April was a stellar entry into an already dynamic catalog. That said, Reclamation Pt.II blows all of that away. Definitely our most favorite from the Minnesota collective, possibly their best to date, and most certainly their heaviest. In fact! We [...]
Damndest make our kind of music. The kind that’s Synth flavored, anthemic, driving, and just all around moving. It’s a kind of modern Shoegaze Post-Rawk in the vein of Tombstones in Their Eyes mixed with Bear In Heaven’s sparkling Electro tendencies and Telekinesis’ brand of Indie anthem-making. And we dig [...]
While seeing Every Time I Die implode in a very public way at the tail end of 2021 was awful to experience as a fan, the one shining light was that we’re now left with two ETID-adjacent projects making their way to our collective earholes within a month of each [...]
The absolute best video for the end of summer to accompany what is easily the absolute best song to herald the oncoming 2024 Spooky Szn, Parlour Bells’ “Slasher Movie Weather” is a haunting and harrowing aural and visual journey… but also a fun and sexy one? Trust us, it makes [...]