

Following on from Untitled, The Armed have tried to keep the secrecy going, but the world is starting to notice. Their identities are secret, they hire drummers like you would stream an album (for this album, they hired Ben Koller of Converge), use actors at press releases, play under secret names at open mic nights, basically they’re nuts. The Armed (or ⋈ as they are sometimes known as), are a strange bunch, even by my standards. LOOKING FOR A PAINFUL DEATH by TONGUE PARTY Looking for a Painful Death proves that there are still ways to keep rock music fun and interesting. The whole album is driving and raucous and loaded with tons of sharp temp shifts. Post hardcore, noise rock, whatever you want to call this, Tongue Party are one of the best live bands I saw last year. Tongue Party – Looking For A Painful Death

You cannot listen to an album such as Coma Noir and not end up with a massive grin on your face. Nothing about Coma Noir is subtle, but that is how I love my Metal. Coma Noir could easily be called Hook Dispenser, which would have been a better description. I guess that The Atlas Moth didn’t get the memo. All we have are albums that burst our eardrums at some point in 2018, as well as a listen of some other gems! Share and enjoy! – EddieĮvery other year, people say that XXXX year is the time when Metal will die. I would also like to point out that there is no order to this list, there is no “twenty to one” thing going on. It represents a good cross-section of everything that makes the neighbors’ plates fall off the wall. You could make this list a hundred times and probably come out with different results each time. To be honest, it’s been a great year for music as a whole, but Metal/Noise/Heavy releases have been pretty spectacular this year. So, how has it been for the noisy end of the spectrum? If he hadn’t I might have had a minor heart attack. Thankfully, head-honcho Jon has made it a collaboration list. I know the one I wrote for All The Time I Was Listening to My Own Wall of Sound was, but I digress. If you have a list which is down to one person’s opinion, well, they tend to be tyrannical in approach. That would be me on this one, just in case you’re wondering/concerned/bothered. If you have the sort of list where you have a lot of people voting, it’s can be a beautiful collaboration, but there is always some poor bugger who has to deal with it. Each track is a self-affirmation, a rallying cry, and an urge to live.Ģ4 is out on November 4th, 2022 through Synth Religion.Any best of lists (regardless of the genre) must be treated as a subjective thing. Instrumentalist Hélène de Thoury (solo project Hante.) and vocalist Amandine Stioui continue to reinvent themselves with this new release translating their inner questioning and emotions into music, and confronting all obstacles and disappointments life brings. The cinematic video, directed by CHAOS, details an intense night of chainsmoking anxiety.

The words used sound like an injunction we could tell the other: love me, but not too much, not too close.” On one hand there’s love, beautiful and unconditional, on the other hand there’s rejection and the need to take some distance. This bond creates neurosis, fears, suffocation and consequently, some contradictions. “They illustrate the ambivalence we sometimes feel when we think about someone we care about and with whom we have a strong bond.

“The lyrics describe a chaotic way of thinking, both messy and contradictory,” says the band.
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Minuit Machine’s signature dark, dystopian, and futuristic world is put on full display here in both the song and accompanying video. The ominous lead single with a hypnotic tick, “ Contradictions,”is a powerfully obsessive ode to an imaginary person to whom we could speak during a daydream. It’s like I’m cut into pieces And the feelings I have inside No longer belong to meįrench dark synth duo Minuit Machine, now wrapping up their autumn North American tour, are set to release their 4th LP: the surprisingly seductive electronic sound collage of 24.
