Encephalon Echoes Artoffact With their first release in over five years, Encephalon makes their return with their fourth studio album, Echoes. Lead vocalist Matt Gifford very much sounds like the unsettling and haunting growls of heavy metal [...]
Hocico HyperViolent Out Of Line Music Conversations of the darker things in life are often avoided out of fear. Listening to HyperViolent is like being immersed into the innermost primal parts of a mind ravaged by a volatile world. The opening [...]
Cannons Fever Dream Columbia Records In a world of division and unrest there are music projects that shine through and remind listeners that it’s okay to want to escape. Fever Dream is one such album. In their aptly named third studio [...]
MASSIVE EGO THE NEW NORMAL OUT OF LINE RECORDS Synth-pop/darkwave giant Massive Ego exerts an unapologetic political voice with The New Normal, its first multi-song project since 2019. Complimented by cover art depicting two androids riddled [...]
Sasha And The Valentines So You Think You Found Love? Independent With perhaps it’s most adequately named track ‘Witches’ set to the front, So You Think You Found Love? by Austin-based band Sasha And The Valentines opens with a bewitching [...]
Frankie & His Fingers Universal Hurt SubFamily Records Punk rock band Frankie & His Fingers has made a full comeback with its most recent studio effort, Universal Hurt. This album hearkens back to the days of mainstream punk bands [...]