SURVIVING THE COLLAPSE A CONVERSATION WITH CODY QUISTAD OF WAGE WAR A weird, uncomfortable silence often follows a devastating impact. There are no cinematics to it, just the universe reacting to the internal chaos and destruction caused mostly [...]
NEW CHAPTERS, WRITTEN IN ICE AND LIGHT A CONVERSATION WITH LEFT TO SUFFER GUITARIST PETER HIGGS Stepping into a new chapter with Unwelcome Guest, everything Left To Suffer has been through has led to this moment, when their careers have shifted [...]
FROM FIRST TO LAST WE WERE BLEEDING ANYWAY FEARLESS RECORDS From First to Last has always dared to bleed publicly for its fans, making music that connects with an audience seeking raw authenticity. Their music has never been about perfectionism [...]
A REBIRTH THROUGH VINYL A CONVERSATION WITH YOUNG MEDICINE There is a particular electricity around Young Medicine right now, an energy that feels like a band that’s finally found its footing. With the release of the Cold Blooded vinyl and [...]
A CROWN MADE OF TEETH, NOT GOLD A CONVERSATION WITH JACK UNDERKOFLER OF DEAD POET SOCIETY There is this eerie feeling when listening to Dead Poet Society’s Monarch that feels like the floor is caving in beneath you, not because the soundscapes [...]
OLD SCARS, NEW STORIES A CONVERSATION WITH MATT GOOD OF FROM FIRST TO LAST There is a unique sort of ache that only comes from a journey that requires you to return to another version of yourself you thought or swore you would never have to go [...]
VESPERA THE THOUGHTS THAT PLAGUE YOU INDEPENDENT Vespera’s music has always held this nostalgic darkness that creeps into its instrumental body, settling between the ribs of vulnerable lyrics. On this new album, The Thoughts That Plague You, [...]
SHOWING TEETH A FATE WORSE THAN LONELINESS SPINEFARM RECORDS A Fate Worse Than Loneliness, a debut EP from emerging artist Showing Teeth, is something uniquely volcanic and melodically special. A one-woman project helmed by Nashville’s Addison, [...]
MOVEMENTS HAPPIER NOW FEARLESS RECORDS Scene leaders Movements have always built music around the raw emotional tides of youth, heartbreak, self-doubt, and the dormant terror that finally awakens when you realize you can’t run from aging, [...]
THE WARNING EVERYTHING’S FALLING LAVA/REPUBLIC RECORDS Everything’s Falling is the kind of album that comes from a band that not only knows who they are, but also draws power from consistently staying on its own unique track. They don’t [...]
JOHN CARPENTER CATHEDRAL SACRED BONES RECORDS John Carpenter has long been known for turning nightmares into something tangible. For Carpenter’s new album, Cathedral, this is no different. In many ways, it grimly depicts a setting befitting of [...]
THE PLOT IN YOU THE PLOT IN YOU FEARLESS RECORDS The Plot in You has always been a band that isn’t about labels. In a genre that has always been defined by its aggressive textures, bands like The Plot In You have always strived for more [...]
SIAMESE DISSOLUTION LONG BRANCH RECORDS Siamese has come swinging with a new album this month, dissolution. However, with this new record comes a new form of emotional bravery: one that feels like someone sitting in the midnight afterglow of [...]
7 SEAS: A RETURN TO WATER, AND THEMSELVES A CONVERSATION WITH DIRTY HEADS Dirty Heads is a band that has always lived at the crossroads of breezy escapism and grounded emotional honesty. But with their new release, 7 Seas, the emotional [...]
BETWEEN THE LIGHT AND THE LEAVING HELD. ON THEIR DEBUT ALBUM GREY Held.’s debut record, GREY, is the kind of record that thrives on the interplay of shadows and self-discovery. When one builds this kind of record from that kind of energy, this [...]
AUGUST BURNS RED SEASON OF SURRENDER FEARLESS RECORDS For the past 20 years, August Burns Red has never concerned themselves with rewriting the soundscapes they helped bring to metalcore. As they have braved the changes in the genre’s [...]
IDENTITY, TRANSFORMATION & THE MEANING OF SURRENDERING A CONVERSATION WITH JAKE LUHRS OF AUGUST BURNS RED As the lighting in the hotel lobby creates this sense of calm and serenity over August Burns Red’s vocalist, Jake Luhrs, one can also [...]
FAITH, FRACTURE AND THE SPACE BETWEEN A CONVERSATION WITH DAVE KRYSL OF HASTE THE DAY When some bands return, fans expect something victorious – the kind of mythic energy that cements a band as a musical legend. But Haste the Day’s new album, [...]
HASTE THE DAY DISSENTER SOLID STATE RECORDS There are two different kinds of comeback albums. There are albums that return a band into the world, and there are albums where that return feels more internal than external. Coming into Haste the [...]
TIGERS JAW LOST ON YOU HOPELESS RECORDS Tigers Jaw sound has always felt like a soft reawakening, a breath that one takes before admitting something that you’ve kept hidden away in the dark, avoiding what might surface if you bring it to [...]
VICIOUS RAIN THE ANATOMY OF SURVIVING ARISING EMPIRE Vicious Rain has always had a way of creating music that is a mix of turbulence and muted pain, a sound that feels like the moment a storm breaks out-an emotional downpour overhead, as the [...]
THE ART OF BREAKING OPEN A CONVERSATION WITH SHANE LYONS OF VARIALS Stepping into the new chapter of Varials’ new album, there is a sort of unspoken heaviness and no-nonsense grit that adorns the walls of Where The Light Leaves. It steps [...]
SUNDECAY THE BLOOD LIVES AGAIN INDEPENDENT Sundecay’s sound is akin to a slow-forming bruise: a purplish-blue darkness that blooms around the skin until it becomes impossible to ignore. While the Toronto doom outfit has always embodied this [...]
URNE SETTING FIRE TO THE SKY SPINEFARM RECORDS When it comes to URNE’s sound, such textures thrive on the tension between emotional weight and the wonder that embodies their diverse melodies, which have come to make up the firestorm of grit, [...]
