Take the mouthpiece from Converge, the low end from the legendary Nasum, Megadeth’s current skin smasher, put together by the guitarist from Napalm Death, one of the world’s premiere Death Metal outfits, and you have one of the most intriguing outfits of 2020.
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2020 has caused a lot of reshuffling to release calendars and cancelled most every show imaginable. Even the mighty FOZZY is prone to pandemic woes and while one of front man Chris Jericho’s outfits has thrived and sustained throughout the year thanks to caution, caring, and innovation (We’re, of course, talking about his other job as “Le Champion” over on AEW), his musical outfit has been forced to reschedule tours and push back the release of their upcoming eighth album to 2021.
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Short, sweet, and to the heavy point, Lead Head by Orbiter is three tracks of pure, unfiltered Rawk and a breath of fresh air during these trying times. With Orbiter’s latest batch of tracks, the Oslo trio bring the ruckus throughout each sonic journey which pack a sonic wallop and leave a lasting impression.
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In this day and age, it is really hard to stand out and make a statement with your music…not because there’s no originality left but because there’s so much that’s already been done that it’s hard to not be derivative in some way. Which is why it’s especially exhilarating when a group like Kimono Drag Queens comes along to flip the script on previously tried tropes like they do on Songs Of Worship.
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Politically-charged, poignant, and powerful, War On Women’s latest is equally their most ferocious and most important album to date. There are records you turn on and within barely thirty seconds you can tell they’re just magic like Wonderful Hell which is sonically transcendent of anything War On Women has done so far matched by the pointed words of vocalist Shawna Potter.
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Delays are inevitable yet sometimes delays work for the greater good producing some unprecedented magic like Magnetic Eye Records has had as of late. Whether it’s pandemic or production-related, there’s been a slew of releases from MER affected by recent events but the silver lining in this story is that it’s caused a flood of material to come out one after another as of late bringing us to Vol. 4 [Redux] (Following Zakk Sabbath’s Vertigo and the Alice In Chains [Redux] both released last month) focusing on the iconic Black Sabbath album as reinterpreted by a bevy of current legends, legends on the rise, and legends-in-the-making.
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Remember when Nu-Metal exploded and all these bands came out of the woodwork with these impressive anthems trying to hook new listeners for the long haul beyond the initial fad? Rise As Equals is like ALL of those songs collected in one place. And it’s freaking glorious.
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Listening through Nappy, the latest EP from Japan’s Draw Into Disorder, is like being transported back to the state most associated with perpetual rain and flannel in the ’90’s. Call these six tracks and homage or an ode but at the core of Nappy is a group of tunes made in the 21st Century that truly triumph.
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If ever there was an album title that more accurately described the overall sound of a record, it’s “DOOMPOP”. Downtrodden yet delightful, the latest slab of sonic soliloquies from Detroit’s Zilched is a driving collection of unforgettable Rawk that elegantly eschews norms to forge a new genre built from Alternative, Grunge, and Dream Pop.
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Timeless is about as fitting a descriptor as you could get when it comes to the latest single by Beckie Margaret. With vocals that haunt a monumental soundscape, “Divine Feminine” isn’t so much a piece of music that demands your attention as much as it is something that just needs to be experienced.
But I digress.
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