Genocide Pact - Order of Torment Rating: 8.5/10 Listen on bandcamp. Death metal’s a funny thing. While it’s by far the best subgenre of metal in my honest opinion, many of its bands that emerged post-1995 have a tendency to fall somewhere…
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Genocide Pact - Order of Torment Rating: 8.5/10 Listen on bandcamp. Death metal’s a funny thing. While it’s by far the best subgenre of metal in my honest opinion, many of its bands that emerged post-1995 have a tendency to fall somewhere…
Kero Kero Bonito- “TOTEP” Listen to the EP on your preferred streaming service here. Kero Kero Bonito, often abbreviated to KBB, is a British electro-pop trio that combines the genre with some elements of j-pop and hip-hop. Formed in 2011…
Cane Hill - Too Far GoneRating: 6.8/10Listen and buy here Cane Hill were cagey about their influences on the self-titled EP; more grounded in post-hardcore and metalcore than later albums, only that telltale “bounce” gave away the Slipknot…
Watain - TRIDENT WOLF ECLIPSERating: 5/10Stream here Watain are a black metal band. They have tried to make that clear by including the word “dark” in the names of two albums, Lawless Darkness and Sworn to the Dark, and by sneaking it onto…
Jeff Rosenstock- POST- Rating: A Stream and buy the LP here. Jeff Rosenstock is a Long Island musician who started his music career with the Arrogant Sons of Bitches before moving to arguably his most well-known project, Bomb the Music In…
Bloodbather - PressureRating: 7.5/10Stream the record on Youtube or the band’s Bandcamp. Bloodbather are a metalcore band from Broward County, Florida that play an aggressive, dissonant style in the vein of bands like Eighteen Visions and…
2017 was a fucking weird year, to say the very least, but I went to some of the best concerts I’ve ever been in my whole life. Here, I’ll be counting down the twenty-five best, because the pressure of narrowing it down to ten like I did la…
BRUH 2017 SUCKED. I COULD BE A FUCKING DORK AND SAY THAT AT LEAST IT WAS A GOOD YEAR FOR MUSIC BUT CONTRARY TO THOSE SENTIMENTS THAT KIDS WHO BUY PATCHES FROM FYE SAID ABOUT “AT LEAST SOME GREAT PUNK ROCK BANDS WILL COME OUT OF THIS”, FOR…
2017 has been phenomenal for music. I feel like there have been so many amazing records both from personal favorites and bands I just discovered this year that should make it on this list. This is easily the hardest year in music for me t…
My taste in music has pivoted steadily toward black metal in the last few years. A third of my favorite records of 2016 were black metal, and in 2017 the genre claims half my list, with its fingers in (most of) the other half. There are an…