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Jason Priest Is Found And Unveils Latest Synth Scorcher With For Your Consideration

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Waaaaaay back in June 2021 (So not that long ago… it just seems that way!) we took a dive into the world of Jason Priest (AKA Antoni Maiovvi) and were pleasantly surprised by the stunning Synthwave emanating from within Jason Priest Is Missing. Following up something that we deemed to “encapsulate everything that the term ‘wave’ (Read: synth, dark, etc)” represents is no easy task but luckily, Jason Priest did the homework and follows up that with a colorfully complex collection of tracks that takes our previous assessment and turns it on its’ head.

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96 Bitter Beings Bring CKY To A New Generation With The Transcending Rawk Of Synergy Restored

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While working in retail hell, CKY’s Vol. 1 was like sonic comfort food. It was a genre-bending masterpiece from start to finish and whenever it’d pop up in ye olde 5-disc changer an instant shit eating grin would form on my 20-something face. Add the visuals of my manager scrambling to reach the stereo from wherever they were in time to skip “My Promiscuous Daughter” (IYKYK) before it blasted out to a full store and the kinds of joy that record brought (And still bring) are endless.

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Singles! Vicious Blonde, “Dreams Come True”

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A relentless rollickin’ Rawk fest from start to finish, the newest single from Melbourne’s Vicious Blonde is some of the best barely two minutes you’ll have the privilege of listening to in 2022 from a quartet that’s just getting started rocking your socks off.

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The Endorphins Is The Only Rawk You’ll Need In 2022 And Nothing Is Real Proves Why

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Cover Art courtesy of Matt Bass Media

Holy sweet big baby, baby, and just regular big Jeebus combined! Where the hell did this band come from??? Of course we know the answer is “Boston” (Cue pride) but gotdamn if this isn’t some next level Alternative Rawk through and through. At this point in the year, and thinking about what came before and what’s ahead, we can’t imagine any other artist with a better all out Rawk masterpiece than The Endorphins and Nothing Is Real. True Story!

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PSYCHONAUT Combines It All For Epic Prog-Dirge On Violate Consensus Reality

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If you’re looking for the hip place to indulge in your most favorite sounds of the Doom, DIrge, Sludge, and Prog variety then look no further than PSYCHONAUT’s Violate Consensus Reality which has all those elements and more and combines the might of contemporaries like Irist and Hippotraktor (Who also feature PSYCHONAUT vocalist/guitarist Stefan de Graef actually) to form their own majestic brand of those sounds refined into a beautifully bodacious full-length collection of your new favorite songs.

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Dead Cross Skip The Sophomore Slump, Shoot Straight For Legendary Status With II

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You ever buy tickets for a show months and months in advance and by the time the show is scheduled to take place you just don’t feel like leaving your house? This has happened to us on numerous occasions and, as often as we bail on something at the last minute, there are also the times where we rally and are grateful we did. One such time was when Dead Cross hit Boston touring off their debut back in 2017.

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Dynamic Duo Deliver The Doom Rawk You Need As Hoaxed Drop Two Shadows

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Hailing from the gloomy Northwest (Portland, Oregon to be exact), Hoaxed’s brand of captivating ethereal Doom Rawk is soon to be your new favorite thing with a sound that’s also sure to be a Spooky Season staple as well.

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Panic Priest’s PSYCHOGORIA Is An Electro Journey That’s Just Right For All Seasons

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More like PSYCHOGLORIOUS, amirite? Panic Priest is BACK and while the latest release might be the perfect sound for the Rocktober season, the nuanced Electro romp is an epic synthetic journey that’s fit for the months that precede and proceed these hallowed 31 days.

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Singles! The Endorphins, “Myopic Dystopia”

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Art Credit: Matt Bass Media

Y’all are digging Boston’s The Endorphins so far, right? Well, if you ain’t then you should change that status toot suite! For the rest of us, latest single “Myopic Dystopia” is an even more gnarly continuation of “Voyager Of A Daydream” as we march forward to the new full-length, Nothing Is Real, on November 11th. And unlike that aforementioned previous single, though, which leaned a little more towards Alt Rawk, “Myopic Dystopia” is this kind of all around rad ruckus that’s calculated and determined and hella anthemic.

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Candy Coffins’ Spooky SZN Soundtrack, Once Do It With Feeling, Is Filled With Enough Timeless Tales To Transcend Just One Season

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A gargantuan-sounding and, frankly, ghoulish entrant for this year’s ultimate Spooky SZN album, Candy Coffins’ Once Do It With Feeling is a rollicking romp through the graveyard that’s filled with an abundance of timeless tracks that’ll leave a lasting impression well after the last candle in your Jack-o’-lantern has burned through its’ wick.

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