Premiere: Mutoid Man – Siren Song
Metal trio Mutoid Man are a supergroup of sorts, comprising Stephen Brodsky from Cave In on vocals and guitar, Jeff Matz from High on Fire on bass, and Ben Koller from Converge on drums. Following their recent video, ‘Call of the Void’, the band have drawn inspiration from Homer’s Odyssey for the animated video for …
Track: Oxbow – 1000 Hours
Six years after the release of their last studio album, ‘Thin Black Duke’, San Francisco art rock quartet Oxbow have unveiled their first new music since then. ‘1000 Hours’ is taken from the band’s forthcoming eighth album, ‘Love’s Holiday’. The song boasts backing vocals from Roger Joseph Manning Jr. of early 90s power pop quartet …
Album Review: Spitting Image – Full Sun
‘Full Sun’ sees Spitting Image drawing upon sonic templates that are well-worn and doing something new and enjoyable with them.
Premiere: Buñuel – For the Cops
“If you’ve never been approached by men with nightsticks who are intent on beating you into compliance while you’ve been naked in a jail cell, you have not lived.” – Eugene S Robinson, Buñuel.
Album Review: Bad Breeding – Human Capital
Stevenage anarcho-punk quartet’s fourth album is their best yet.
Album Review: Krause – The Art of Fatigue
Athenian noise rock quartet Krause have been around since 2015, attracting small but dedicated followings in both Greece and the UK. Their debut album, ‘2am Thoughts’ (2017), marked them out as a band of interest for lovers of the sort of heavy, sludgey noise rock made by Amphetamine Reptile artists like Unsane and Cows back …
Track: Guided By Voices – Unproductive Funk
To promote their 36th album, ‘Tremblers and Goggles by Rank’, Midwestern indie rock veterans Guided By Voices have released a gorgeously melodic single titled ‘Unproductive Funk’. The title is highly ironic for a band who are releasing their tenth studio album in three-and-a-half years. The track retains the melody of the songs on the band’s …
Track: Bad Breeding – Human Capital
Three years on from their best album to date, ‘Exiled’, Stevenage’s Bad Breeding have announced their return with ‘Human Capital’, the blistering title track from their forthcoming fourth full-length album. The song is mostly slower and more contemplative than much of Bad Breeding’s previous material. While frontman Chris Dodd intones the vituperative lyrics as angrily …
Album Review: Boris – W
In July 2020, Tokyo experimental metal trio Boris released ‘NO’, their fastest, loudest, heaviest album for several years, one that eschewed the drone metal elements of much of their recent material and re-embraced the hardcore punk influences of their early work. The album was hard, fast, and unsubtle, made for rip-roaring countryside driving music, and …
Album Review: Converge and Chelsea Wolfe – Bloodmoon: I
One of 2021’s most satisfying post-metal albums.