USA’s Czar is an experimental mathcore band, and Life Is No Way to Treat an Animal is their sophomore album. Their take on jazzy mathcore is refreshing and very enjoyable. Their compositions often wander left and right so naturally that it doesn’t come off as forced or undesirable. With nineteen songs over the course of almost fifty minutes, you’re sure to have enough entertainment for a while!
Nintendocore Lives wasn’t a blog or a page I was familiar with, but that’s changed with the release of their compilation album Glitched. Putting forth nineteen tracks of heavy chiptune music, this … Read more

The experimental black metal entity known as Voidcraeft recently released Dogma, the latest EP of Germany’s one-man band. This is very much in line with their December full-length, Un futur cadavre, and ditches the sublime quarter-tone compositions of Visceral Practices, much to my dismay. However, Dogma is quite an amazing EP in its own right. It was written with five rules in mind, most of which were rapidly broken. This self-disrespect isn’t detrimental to the music, however, and what survives is an outstanding, dissonant, and aggressive black metal record that is absolutely free as well!

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Gnarwhale is a band I regret having overlooked, back when Colour came out. It wasn’t for me, at the time, but I can now appreciate it in full. The progressive metal blended with post-hardcore on this EP – topped with the superb vocal delivery of Sam Marshall – gives this Australian release from 2015 a really unique taste that will most probably please you!
Memória de peixe is a Portuguese math jazz band, and they released their second full-length, Himiko Cloud, back in October of last year. Conceptually, it’s a collection of instrumental stories brought together by Himiko the … Read more

Keratoconus is a British one-man mathcore project, and 浜田EP (The Hamada EP) was released in late December. It’s a rather short release, at only thirteen minutes long, but every second here is well spent. The tracks are abrasive, intellectual, technical, and quite experimental too! Don’t be offended by the autism-core tag, it’s merely because S. A. Mudd, the mastermind of the project, suffers from autism himself, and it seems to be an extraordinary outlet from which we can all benefit by listening and appreciating the music!

Asunder is Montréal progressive technical melodic death metal project Samskaras‘ upcoming EP. Out … Read more