New Jersey-based experimental musician Sylvia Haynes has released her latest project, “Healer”, a deeply personal and sonically adventurous album that continues her prolific streak of genre-defying work. Known for her raw lyricism and unconventional song structures, Haynes blends lo-fi textures, ambient noise, and spoken word into a soundscape that’s as haunting as it is healing.
Damn, Here's a rager of a three way split cassette featuring a new song a piece by Waterbury, CT's Infinity Land, Huntsville Alabama's Heel Turn, and Chicago, Illinois based Virgin Mother. On Infinity Land's track, the band offers up one new track of ugly and brutal as fuck sounding hardcore, punk, and noise rock. On Heel Turn's track, the band offers up one hardcore, punk, and metal, and Virgin Mother offer up one track of post metal, screamo, and experimental noise. Overall, this split makes for an awesome listen and definitely should not be missed. Highly recommended! Enjoy! Under Light was released via The Ghost Is Clear records on June 23rd, 2021!
Big Brave are a two piece band from Montreal, Quebec who formed in 2012. Big Brave play a killer style of music that incorporates elements of shoegaze, doom, post metal, and experimental noise within their sound. Musically, Big Brave can be loosely compared to bands such as True Widow, King Woman, Spotlights, Helms Alee, and other like-minded bands. Since forming in 2012, Big Brave have released an eight song LP titled Feral Verdure in September of 2014, a five song LP titled Au De La in September of 2015, a three song LP titled Ardor in September of 2017, and a five song LP A Gaze Among Them in May of 2019. Vital is the band's latest full-length LP, which was released via Southern Lord records on April 23rd, 2021. On Vital, Big Brave offer up five tracks of dreamy, atmospheric, and explosively heavy sounding shoegaze, doom, post metal, and experimental noise. Overall, Vital makes for an amazing listen and definitely should not be missed. Highly recommended! Enjoy!
Genre: Hardcore, Punk, Noise Rock
Label: Self-Released
Tracks: 9
Length: 25.21'
Shiverboard is a three piece band from NYC who formed in 2015. Shiverboard play a harsh and abrasive style of outsider hardcore, punk, and noise rock. Since forming in 2015, Shiverboard have released a digital single titled Ant Hill in February of 2020 and a fifteen song LP titled The Squirms in April of 2020. This is the band's latest EP, which was released on December 29th, 2020. On their latest demo EP, Shiverboard offer up nine tracks of harsh and abrasive sounding outsider hardcore, punk, and noise rock. Great stuff! Enjoy!
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Genre: Doom, Metal, Sludge, Noise
Label: Tartarus/Aesthetic Death Records
Tracks: 4
Length: 52.35'
Farer are a three piece band from The Netherlands who formed in 2018, from the looks of things. Farer play a ugly, harsh, and brutal as fuck style of music that incorporates elements of doom, metal, sludge, and harsh noise within their sound. Musically, Farer can be said to be influenced by bands such as Sumac, Amen Ra, The Body, Full Of Hell, and other like-minded bands. Monad is the band's debut full-length LP, which was released on cassette via Tartarus and on CD via Aesthetic Death records on November 20th, 2020. On Monad, Farer offer up four tracks of abrasive, ugly, harsh, and brutal as fuck sounding doom, metal, sludge, and experimental noise. Overall, Monad makes for an awesome listen and definitely should not be missed. Highly recommended! Enjoy!
Genre: Noise Rock, Experimental Noise, Industrial Metal, Power Electronics
Label: Imploding Sounds/Cursed Monk Records
Tracks: 4
Length: 11.25'
Here's a killer split EP featuring new material from PA's Squelch Chamber and Cedar Rapids, Iowa's Dead City Soundscape. Squelch Chamber is a musical project from Pennsylvania who formed in 2019, from the looks of things. Squelch Chamber play an abrasive and harsh style of music that incorporates elements of noise rock and experimental noise within their sound. Since forming in 2019, Squelch Chamber have released a digital single titled Martial Law Birthday Party in March of 2020, a ten song EP titled Down So Low in May of 2020, and a three song LP titled Nightmarish in September 2020. This is the band's latest split EP, which was released via Imploding Sounds records on November 9th 2020. On their side of the split, Squelch Chamber offer up two tracks of vicious, scathing, abrasive, and harsh sounding noise rock and experimental noise. The second band on the split is Dead City Soundscape. Dead City Soundscape is a three piece band from Cedar Rapids, Iowa who formed in 2019, from the looks of things. Dead City Soundscape play a ugly, harsh, and abrasive style of music that incorporates elements of industrial metal, drone, and harsh noise within their sound. Since forming in 2019, Dead City Soundscape have released a three song EP titled in Cold Flesh in June of 2020 and a split EP with Stalk Market in October of 2020. On their side of the split, Dead City Soundscape offer up two tracks of harsh, ugly, and abrasive sounding industrial metal, power electronics, and harsh noise. Overall, this split EP makes for an awesome listen and definitely should not be missed. Highly recommended! Enjoy!
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Genre: Experimental Noise
Label: Federal Prisoner
Tracks: 22
Length: 74.0'
In the pandemic summer of 2020, Draxler will unveil Reigning Cement, an audio-visual project pairing a 100-page book of the artist’s location-specific photography and collage work with a collection of music created by over 20 musicians handpicked by Draxler himself. It will be released via Federal Prisoner, the label created by Draxler and Greg Puciato (The Dillinger Escape Plan) and the list of participating artists is a veritable dream team of dark underground music.
The concept behind the audio portion of Reigning Cement was inspired by an experiment that Draxler participated in a few years ago, in which a group of collage artists were each given the exact same packet of visual assets with which to create a piece. Similarly, Draxler provided each musician on Reigning Cement with the same 34 sonic elements—all recorded in the noisy industrial environment just outside his studio on the edge of Los Angeles.
“I grew up in rural Wisconsin, so when I moved here I noticed all the textures and noises that are such a big part of this environment—the construction sounds, garbage trucks, jackhammers, alarms,” Draxler offers. “Stuff that you would just consider noise. It’s so densely industrial over here that it became something that grated on my nerves but at the same time was super inspiring.” Each musician on Reigning Cement was confined to creating a song from these elements, with the only additional allowance being the inclusion of vocals if they so desired. And yet the wide variety of results is self-evident upon the very first listen. “The music ranges from polished experimental pop to sheer noise,” Draxler says. “That’s what I wanted, and I think that’s the coolest thing about it."
Like the audio elements, all the images included in Reigning Cement are products of Draxler’s immediate industrial environment. “The photographic images are all from my neighborhood,” he confirms. “That’s very much a part of the concept." The overall effect is one of urban chaos and decay, a theme that continues in the videos Draxler has created for some of the tracks, like Dylan Walker’s “Time reign cemenT” and Vowws’ “Them.” “It definitely has that element of taking something not generally considered beautiful and making something beautiful out of it,” Draxler says. “That’s a concept I use a lot in my work.”
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*Reigning Cement is a really dark, harsh, and unsettling experimental noise project featuring contributions from bands and artists including Chelsea Wolf, Portrayal Of Guilt, Intensive Care, Street Sects, Uniform, Jaye Jayle, Vowws, etc. Reigning Cement was released via Federal Prisoner records on September 4th, 2020 and limited to 100 copies. Highly recommended! Enjoy!
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