Top Albums of 2017 — Spyros Stasis
… Another year, another excellent bunch of releases. As I tend to spread out across different sounds and genres, it is a joy to be able to see that big names from each scene are still able to produce...
View ArticleTop Albums of 2017 – Aaron Maltz
… Leading up to 2017, music came to fill the space between meandering employment, endless traffic (think Godard’s Weekend), and a growing spiritual vacuum. I consumed it fervently to balance out the...
View ArticleLive Report: Cleric, Pyrrhon & Seven)Suns @ Saint Vitus
photo by Christopher Harrington Cleric at Saint Vitus photo by Christopher Harrington Seven)Suns at Saint Vitus photo by Christopher Harrington Seven)Suns at Saint Vitus photo by Christopher...
View ArticleImpressions From the Inaugural Mathcore Index Festival
… Early on the second day of Mathcore Index Fest, the local Brooklyn band Detach The Islands were being appropriately meticulous. They had already line-checked each of their instruments, but playing...
View ArticleStream Pyrrhon’s “Abscess Time” Title Track
… NYC metal experimentalists Pyrrhon will release their new album Abscess Time on June 26th via Willowtip Records (pre-order). The more this band goes on, the less you can pigeonhole them into any...
View ArticleUpcoming Metal Releases: 6/21/20 — 6/27/20
… Here are the new (and recent) metal releases for the week of June 21st to June 27th, 2020. Releases reflect proposed North American scheduling, if available. Expect to see most of these albums on...
View ArticleGlorious Depravity (Pyrrhon, Woe, Mutilation Rites) Outruns the “Digital Reaper”
As the new wave of death metal history revitalizing reaches its peak, with so many “new old school death metal” bands quite literally flooding the market, we have to step back and look at our new...
View ArticleSeputus Evokes “The Learned Response” to Extreme, Avant-Garde Metal (Early...
Any new project from the Pyrrhon guys is always a welcome addition. It may seem unfitting at first to refer to Seputus in such a way, but this stance is backed up by more than just the core lineup of...
View ArticleTranscending Genre on Pyrithe’s “Monuments to Impermanence” (Album Stream +...
Where do we go when there is no more ground to be covered? Genre is a flat plain of various intersecting spectra, and each individual point operates within their specific genre’s (or genres’)...
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