noise

  • 2012

    Coming out October 2nd on Profound Lore Records, here is a track from the forthcoming Menace Ruine album, “Salamandra.” For years, I’ve known this label to release some very forward-thinking metal music, and the Canadian band Menace Ruine fits in perfectly with that ethos. For years, the band has

  • Simon Joyner, one of the darker singer-songwriters to come out of the 90s, has a new album on the way this August titled Ghosts. “Vertigo” is the first track to drop from it, and it’s quite good. Simon is really pushing the instrumentation on this one–especially with the

  • 2012

    Mount Eerie’s last album, Clear Moon, definitely took drone and repetition to the forefront for the longtime musical project of singer-songwriter Phil Elverum. Phil is now gearing up to release his second album of 2012, Ocean Roar, and “Pale Lights” is the first song to drop from it. The

  • 2012

    [audio:http://suicidesqueeze.net/artists/nusensae/Nu_Sensae_Swim.mp3] A track from the forthcoming Nu Sensae album on Suicide Squeeze Records, Sundowning. I’m liking the blend of rock styles on this thing. There’s a relentless punk energy to this think, but the heavy, mid-paced riffs are a

  • anti-

    The Locust – Sever the Toes from TurnStyle Films on Vimeo. The music video above, which was put together by the good people at TurnStyle, is a promotional for the new Locust compilation. The comp features a mess of hard-to-find and out-of-print songs. Anti- has seen fit to give all this

  • The experimental, ambient, and frighteningly noisy musical project Gnaw Their Tongues moves into more of a straight up black metal vibe with this new release, and it’s lead to a much more intense experience. WATCH THE REVIEW

  • 2012

    On this new Mission of Burma album, the Boston band continues to advance their old sound, and it’s pretty enjoyable–well, to me, anyway. WATCH THE REVIEW

  • Sweden’s Holograms aren’t the most original band on the block, but their take on post-punk is enjoyably passionate, catchy, and dark. WATCH THE REVIEW

  • On their latest album, Wreck and Reference unapologetically combines elements of noise, drone, black metal, and industrial as well. WATCH THE REVIEW

  • 2012

    Self Titled by False Light False light is conjuring nothing but blast beats and corpses on this new EP of theirs, which is available as a free download right now on Bandcamp. Try it out via the widget above.