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Iceage – “Ember”
The Danish punk band grab you by the hand to run for dear life in the direction of a spectacular crash on the latest single from their new album, ‘For Love of Grace & the Hereafter’.
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Marbled Eye – “Something’s Different”
There’s no regard to slashing through the malaise here — only an intent to stand out just to feel something on the lead single from the Oakland post-punks’ new EP, ‘Forever’.
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Gun Outfit – “So Easy To Love”
Capturing a desert mystique that still exists beyond the mirage of a screen, this is the kind of place you’d rather be with the latest offering from the hermitic Los Angeles band’s new double LP, ‘Process and Reality’.
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Parlor Walls – “Arrow”
Viscerally fixated yet sharply chic in its dark, industrial punk design, this highlight from the Brooklyn duo’s new album, ‘Big Crystal Dreams’, leaves behind a scene flushed in violent red.
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Sparta – “Crater”
After all these years, the post-hardcore band led by Jim Ward is still on a mission to embrace whatever comes crashing their way on the lead single off their new album, ‘Cut A Silhouette’.
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Recommended EP: Pelican – ‘Ascending’
On this compact, barreling extended play, the resurrection of the post-metal institution continues to thrive on blurring the lines between heavy music matter.
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There Were Wires – “Massive House Fire”
Following a slowburn in finding their way back, the late ’90s and early Aughts Boston metalcore scene stalwarts return as a powderkeg explosion on the lead single off their first new album in over 23 years, ‘Vessel’.
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Recommended Album: Neurosis – ‘An Undying Love For A Burning World’
Now fronted by Isis vocalist Aaron Turner, the synergy of forces in a resurgent Neurosis rains down in a way you can’t unsee on the return from the post-metal legends.
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FILM – “Roundabout”
Be it in memory or their collective calling, members of the Starting Line and Algernon Cadwallader getting stuck in the middle with each other is a good thing on the lead single from their album, ‘Permanence’.
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Piebald – “Still On the Couch”
Interrupting your doom scroll and ad-fed algorithm, the lead single from the Boston indie-emo rockers’ first new album in 19 years makes the over-arching political dumpster fire of these times at least a little bit more fun.