Rock

When a band unearths rehearsal cassette tapes after thirty years in the vault, the result usually leans toward misty nostalgia, but Cleveland rock outfit Farline obliterates any expectation of quiet reflection with their massive single Running Blind. Formed during the explosive boom of nineties alternative rock, the group shelved early drafts of this track before dusting

Stepping straight into the furnace with a re-imagined weapon, Swedish metal outfit NERVED deliver a crushing statement of intent on Don’t Lie. Originally released back in 2008 on their album Finally Nerved, this track always possessed a ferocious core, but here it finally gets the massive stadium-sized production and punishing low end it deserved. The

Painting featured in the artwork:“The Sound from the Opposite Shore” 対岸の音 (4S)2023by 卯野 和宏 (Uno Kazuhiro) At an age where some songs can’t figure out their intent for several minutes, Marston and Baldi offer us a track that wasted barely a breath to get there. Within the runtime of one and a half minutes, this

There are only so many ways a rock band can tell you things are crap. They can scream at the listener, then lower the guitar tuning until the neighbors’ furniture begins to hum with their own existential rage, write a chorus explicitly about the nature of despair and scream it at an increased volume. Or,

Drums For Clowns and Kit Cooper’s ‘Grave Concern‘ sounds like several consecutive all-nighters. In the morning, instead of feeling the relief that exhaustion usually affords, your mind convenes a high-alert, totally unrequested all-hands meeting where nobody feels prepared for any of it. The song is frantic, angry, emtionally obsessive; the kind of track that doesn’t

Picture driving down a rain-slicked highway at midnight with the radio turned up as the raw distortion of classic guitars fills the air, because that exact electric feeling comes rushing back the moment Wild Synchros drops Riding in the Back Seat. Hailing from Barcelona, this independent outfit captures the spirit of early 2000s alternative rock

There’s something wonderfully stupid about the insult “poser” when you really think about it. It is basically someone saying “You are pretending to be the thing you want to become” as though everyone who has ever tried to reinvent themselves simply woke up one morning already finished. BLØSMM’s “Poser” takes that accusation and turns it

Picture this: a metalcore song built around the idea that you have to keep moving or everything falling apart. It sounds like the sort of motivational poster that would be hanging in a gym run by a man who owns seven protein shakers. Except Audiosvora’s “Motion” takes that idea and makes it considerably more aggressive:

A jagged wall of distorted guitar feedback cuts straight through the quiet before a furious drum beat kicks the door off its hinges. On Black Hole independent artist Dear Doky charges out of the gate with an immediate sense of emergency that grabs your chest and refuses to let go. The track instantly establishes a