Let’s recover from the April’s Fool cringefest.
A Compendium of April’s Fool Jokes in the Music World, 2016 Edition
Alongside many actual releases, like Babymetal’s, Entheos’, and Iamthemorning’s new albums, many a prank will be made that day. Here I will list the better ones, in my opinion. This article will be continually updated until I’ve included all the April’s Fool Jokes I want! If you see a good one, email it to us or comment below.
I: A Face Odyssey
Throatpunch City has just released an actually very good joke EP of three songs, named Two Thousand and Punch: A Face Odyssey. Not only is the pun pretty good, the music is somewhere between The Mars Volta … Read more
Monthly Recommendations: March 2016
Here is what we think is the best music to come out in last month!
Krighsu is Wormed‘s latest venture into scientific jargon and brutal death metal. The concept album is just more of what Wormed has been known for, and we appreciate them for that. Have your lyrics sheet at hand, if you want to decipher the guttural sounds of Phlegeton, and be ready to be crushed by the unrelenting riffs of Krighsu. “The Psychic Planetarium, in the end, marks a new step forward in the progressive metal genre by insisting even more on technicality but… Read moreOSR: March 31st, 2016
Yesterday’s OSR by Dillon reminded me that I’ve got a bunch of new records to show you guys!
Let’s start this off with the Occult Anarchist Propaganda of Book of Sand. I’ll cover this one deeper in a double review of this and his other release, Elegy, which both came out around the same time. This one is probably his most standard black metal release to date and might be enjoyed by sane people, even! Secondly is the folk and mixed doom metal of Stangala with their new album, Klañv, which came out on March 24th. It’s a… Read moreWarm up Your Throats! Audition to Be the Voice of II II II!
II II II is amongst my favourite bands because of their unique style of composition. Their experimental, jazzy mathcore album, A Conundrum on My Coffee Table, from 2012, still gets played fairly frequently, which is quite a feat for me! The recent news of new material from the band, with the release of an instrumental demo on Youtube (below), stirred me up and got me very excited. It seems I wasn’t the only one because in response to the public’s reaction, the band decided to move on and concretize the new EP.
Right now, on SoundCloud, they have put … Read more