Lingua Nada – Snuff

by Dæv Tremblay

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Leipzig-bound Lingua Nada just put out their fifth release, Snuff; an eccentric, energetic album that takes elements from shoegaze, surf rock, post-hardcore, and noise rock, and blends them all together into a palatable musical paste. This full-length album sends similar flavours to the then-peerless Brooklyn band Sheen Marina, who were a favourite of mine, last year. Lingua Nada perhaps go farther than them in terms of harshness, sprinkled here and there throughout the ten tracks on Snuff, but this only works in their favour, as every time they do it feels like a … Read more

Et Moriemur, Them Moose Rush, Bernhard Meyer, Order ov Riven Cathedrals, Noir Voir, Nightmarer, Lou Kelly, Tierpark, and Æpoch

by Dæv Tremblay

Et Moriemur – Επιγραμματα (Epigrammata)

Czech atmospheric doom purveyors Et Moriemur released their latest album, inspired by Ancient Greece. The music hardly sounds Greek (at all), but the concept, imagery, and a few excerpts here and there definitely are. Επιγραμματα is funerally slow, and what I like is that they often include acoustic passages, which offers a nice change of pace. The vocal work is also of note: it often sounds like monophonic choir chants, and that’s always a good thing to have in a doom album!

Them Moose Rush – Don’t Pick Your Noise

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Hardcore Anal Hydrogen – Hypercut

by Dæv Tremblay

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The Monégasque duo known as Hardcore Anal Hydrogen just released their fourth album, under the Hypercut title. I wasn’t enthralled by any of their previous output, but I might have to reconsider, given that this one tickles my fancy! The HAH duo delivers more than forty minutes of experimental death metal that lies somewhere between the breakcore of Igorrr (which I still can’t stand) and the cybergrind of Psudoku (which I adore!) Hypercut is filled with inhuman shredding (both figuratively and literally), glitch aesthetics, genre-hopping sections, and distorted, high-pitched harsh vocals. You know, I don’t really … Read more

Soldat Hans – Es taut

by Matt Matheson

The Words

Soldat Hans is an outlier in their musical setting, lilting tranquilly somewhere in a liminal dimension between post-rock and post-metal. They are an outlier because they do not demand your attention in an immediate way, as most bands in the modern era of streaming and accessibility have to do. If a listener is bored of your track within fifteen seconds, they’re not coming back, so you have to compose songs that hook people with a certain urgency. Soldat Hans are not interested in appealing to those casual listeners; their songs are enormous, expansive, patient meditations on minimal themes. … Read more