Tag: SLUDGE
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Spotlights Documentary By Award-Winning Filmmaker John Pope Debuts this Sunday Via Bandcamp
Spotlights celebrate the April 28 release of their new album, Alchemy For The Dead (Ipecac Recordings), with “Discerning Alchemy,” a short film directed by award-winning documentarian John Pope (“Blood Brother,” “Almost Holy”). The film explores life as an independent artist, through the process of recording the nine-song album and the band’s DIY philosophy. “In early 2022, John…
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GOZU Drop New Single “CLDZ”
Boston’s GOZU — Marc Gaffney (vocals and guitar); Joseph Grotto (bass); Doug Sherman (lead guitar); and Seth Botos (drums) — return riffing and screaming with their fifth full-length Remedy. It arrives via Black Light Media/Metal Blade on May 19. Pre-order it here. Today, the band has shared the new single “CLDZ.” Listen here. “Rain or shine, these ‘CLDZ’ will brighten your day, every single time,” the band states. The record was engineered and mixed by…
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Another Heaven Released New Single & Video “Afire”
Chicago-area record label Jetsam-Flotsam is adding the Minneapolis, MN’s “sludgegaze” band Another Heaven to its roster and has repressed the band’s 2021 out-of-print album “III: The Sorrowful Cries of Birds with Singed Feathers” on compact disc. The CD is now available. “III: The Sorrowful Cries of Birds with Singed Feathers” is Another Heaven’s third release. A collection of songs that seeks to summarize the many…
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Cranial Released “Alternate Endings” Remixes
Almost three years after the last and still current album “Alternate Endings” by the post-metal band CRANIAL (ex-OMEGA MASSIF), four remixes of the songs from the last album are getting released now. Well-known artists likeAidan Baker (Nadja), Peter Wolff (Downfall Of Gaia), Ethan Lee McCarthy (Primitive Man/Many Blessings) and Dylan Walker (Full Of Hell) got…
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Acid King Release New Single “Mind’s Eye”; European Tour Dates Announced
Acid King, the pioneering, San Francisco-based heavy rock outfit, debut a second track from their forthcoming album, Beyond Vision, with today’s release of “Mind’s Eye” Lori Josephs said of the track: “The journey has begun but you don’t know where it’s going to lead,” a nod to the otherworldly inspiration for the seven-song album. “Beyond Vision is…
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Doomina – Elsewhere LP (Noise Appeal Records)
I am exploring another Doomina release today. This time, I am going even deeper into the past and revisiting Elsewhere, their second full-length album released in 2013. Perhaps it has been a decade since these folks released this post-rock gem via Noise Appeal Records, but this material ages like a fine wine. There’s no wonder,…
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Doomina – Doomina LP (Noise Appeal Records)
Once again, we have Doomina on our pages. Some of you may remember my writings about Orenda, their exceptional fourth album. Their music immediately knocked my socks off, and I was curious enough to discover/research more about this superb Austrian post-rock act. Today, I am delving deep into their discography by revisiting their third, self-titled…
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Reflector – Turn LP (Noise Appeal Records)
A new batch of records from Noise Appeal Records recently arrived at our headquarters, so now it’s time to start this rainy day with some heavy music. I was fully aware of the Reflector‘s existence but simultaneously unfamiliar with their sound. They’re one of those bands that seem like they nurture some calmer sonic aesthetics,…
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Late Night Venture Released New Single & Video “Hostile Nature”
The Copenhagen, Denmark based post metal ensemble LATE NIGHT VENTURE has set the release of its fifth album ‘V: Bones Of The Extinct’ to March 17th 2023 through Trepanation Recordings and Vinyltroll Records. This past January, the first single ‘Mammut’ was released, and today the band shares the second single ‘Hostile Nature’ alongside a bleak…
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Demikhov – The Chemical Bath LP
We have some noisy music today, and I admit it’s been a while since we had anything remotely close to Demikhov on our pages. To those unfamiliar with this band, Demikhov is an Italian trio from Desenzano Del Garda, and their sound defies any categorization into simplistic musical terms. The Chemical Bath is more than…
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Boris Drop Video For “満ち草 -michikusa-“
Boris release their latest artwork as an animated music video, a collaboration with award-winning director/animator Nalani Williams. The animated work is a depiction of an expanded surrealistic world visualizing a song off of boris’s most recent album, fade, which is the third album they released last year for their 30th anniversary as a band. The video is a work…
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Spotlights Drop Lyric Video For “Algorithmic”
Spotlights, the hypnotic trio featuring married couple Mario and Sarah Quintero with Chris Enriquez, release their new album, Alchemy For The Dead, on April 28 via Ipecac Recordings. The album, written and recorded following the band’s move to Pittsburgh, finds the trio once again balancing the tightrope of light and dark, toying with sonic texture, and…
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