Latest

RNRF Local Look ’25 (Or how we learned to do nothing but re-listen to everything we’ve already reviewed over the past 360+ days in a span of a few days)

Y’know what? We did this to ourselves. We’re not complaining at all. It’s just when we’re hours upon hours into this thing then we wanna know who exactly is to blame. And it’s us! But let’s backtrack for a sec, okay? We expanded our year end list a few years ago because we wanted to […]

Read More of our latest blog post
Browse By

Black Map enter the heavy fray with …And We Explode

What do you get when you put the singer/guitarist from The Trophy Fire, the drummer from Far, and the bassist for dredg in a room to create some new music? Definitely not what you’d expect. On the debut album from Black Map, this trio blows away all expectations and takes [...]

Read MOre

Untitled Metal Column: Volume 9.1 (Slipknot, .5: The Gray Chapter)

I’m not saying this is the greatest Slipknot album yet…but it kinda is. An album that should not be is now less than 24 hours from being released. Fueled by death and inner turmoil, .5: The Gray Chapter is a fury-filled fuck you to naysayers and a triumphant step forward [...]

Read MOre

Kele fully realizes electronica urges on Trick

Make no mistake, I love Bloc Party. I do. But there was always something about that band and certain aspects that didn’t gel. Especially in the latter days and the more electronic aspects when vocalist Kele Okereke seemed to push in a different direction. Then came his solo outings and [...]

Read MOre

Video View: Youth Code, “Consuming Guilt”

At some point there must’ve been a timewarp that brought back early Skinny Puppy into the present day or at the very least, Youth Code is some alternate universe version of SP. Regardless of what higher power brought this Los Angeles duo to industrial’s doorstep just be thankful that they’re [...]

Read MOre

KMFDM celebrate 30 years of the Ultra Heavy Beat on latest album Our Time Will Come

Thirty freaking years of the Ultra Heavy Beat. Think about this people. Thirty. Freaking. Years. Through numerous line up changes, band dissolutions, reformations, and finally coming up with a proper “band”, KMFDM have endured and celebrate such a momentous occasion the only way they can by not dwelling on the [...]

Read MOre

Wormwood debut embraces the doom as it rides further into darkness

Maybe I’ve just been watching too much of Noisey’s recent documentary on the NOLA music scene lately but the debut opus from MA natives Wormwood shares a lot of its DNA from the greats of down south than any of the bands the Wormwood members have been previously or currently [...]

Read MOre