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progressive post-hardcore
Tucson, Arizona
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avant-garde black metal
Los Angeles, California
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post-doom metal
Vancouver… Read more
So, the question on everyone’s lips: who had the craziest chops of 2021?
Let’s start with a fun one! Luke Jaeger’s band Sleep Terror released a spaghetti Western-themed tech-death album this year, and it’s great! You get a great show of musicianship from the tech-death side of things, but also from the Country music side of things, with calls to Albert Lee and others! Fantastic job!
One of the surprises of the year: Reykjavík’s Ophidian I, with one of the best over-the-top tech-death albums of 2021! Their … Read more
Let’s dive into the electronic world of synth music!
Oh Yung released Godless in May, and 𝔀𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓪 𝓫𝓪𝓷𝓰𝓮𝓻 it still is! Every song is worthy of praise, but perhaps none so much as “What U Wanna Do” for its complete bonkersness! The only flaw is its shortness!
I’ll always remember the time I saw some dude cover a Venetian Snares song on an actual drum kit. I was so impressed by that! Well, Big Lad have turned that energy into the physical world, and play breakcore … Read more
Best of sludge 2021, you know the drill.
Dissonant, noisy, filthy sludge that takes the life out of you, just what you need!
Slonk is perhaps the most blackened sludge out there, I mean, I might as well put it in the black metal category at this point! As a consequence, this album is remarkably relentless, bleak, and asphyxiating, and I love it.
Disclaimer: we signed this album! But, if we didn’t think it’s great, we wouldn’t have done it, … Read more
I don’t have an expansive playlist of punk for 2021, but here are the best things I gathered this year.
Released in the middle of the year, Duvel had time enough to play countless times, and for me to sing … Read more