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Spooky SZN Sounds: Sacred Skin, Born In Fire

We had to do it. We had to! You listen to the kind Darkwave-tinged Electro that Sacred Skin is making and tell us it doesn’t somewhat fit under the “Spooky SZN Sounds” banner! Also, we were already late to the Sacred Skin party when we came across them early in 2025 and have procrastinated enough […]

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Wheel Get Heavy, Rage Against The Machine On Perpetually Pummeling Charismatic Leaders

“This is our heavy album” says vocalist/guitarist James Lascelles within the press release for Wheel’s Charismatic Leaders and y’know what? He’s not wrong. With songs on here gestating in some cases since 2020, the music is easily some of the Helsinki trio’s finest and, yes, heaviest to date. Maybe it’s [...]

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RNRF X Salem Horror Fest 2024: “Official Selection”, Carnage For Christmas

“I guess you can paint over the wall of a haunted house but the ghosts are still there” -Charlie (Zarif) We may have said this before and if not in these pages then for sure on our socials somewhere but Alice Maio Mackay is the kind of artist who at [...]

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16Volt Celebrate New Partnership With Metropolis Records, Drop Collected Selections From Previous 2 Outings With NegativeOnArrivals

Everything old is new again, right? If you somehow missed both 2016’s The Negative Space AND 2017’s Dead On Arrivals then you’re in luck because Negative On Arrivals is equally the best of the best from those releases, a refresher course on the majesty of 16Volt, and practically a new [...]

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Singles! Smitt E Smitty & The Fezztones, “Bye Bye Sunday Afternoon”

The music that Smitt E. Smitty & The Fezztones creates really and truly exists in a realm all its’ own. Not necessarily indescribable but more a genre unto itself and with each new outing, the collective corner some new facet of music and make it their own. And that’s the [...]

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Singles! Happy Little Clouds, “I Don’t Suppose”

In our humble opinion, the greatest bands are the ones that exhibit a chameleonic-like nature with their sound. That’s not to say that you put out a Black Metal song and follow it up with a Country one (Although, that could work…) but more shifting seamlessly within a range of [...]

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RNRF X Salem Horror Fest 2024: “Wicked Shorts”, FREE bench MUST PICK UP TODAY

Holy hell, it can’t be legal to have something this creepy and only about 6 or 7 minutes long, right??? And with jump scares to boot (Yes, “scares” as in plural)?!?! Sometimes it’s the ones with the least amount of set up or simplest set up depending on how you [...]

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