OvO–Creatura Genre: Industrial Rock, Noise Rock, Drone, Sludge Metal FFO: Godflesh, The Body, Full Of Hell, Marylin Manson Italian noise duo OvO return once more with their latest messy opus. As one would expect, Creatura is by no means an easy listen. Harsh shrieks and mammoth growls combined with harshly abstract, droney Industrial instrumentation cater […]

Ash Borer–The Irrepassable Gate Genre: Black Metal, Doom Metal, Post Rock FFO: Wolves in the Throne Room, Panopticon, Thou California-based Black Metal outfit Ash Borer deliver a third LP expanding on the polarizing dynamic displayed in previous releases. Open The Irrepassable Gate and allow your consciousness to be enveloped by six powerful tracks boasting an […]

Our Girl–Normally EP Genre: Indie Rock, Alternative Rock FFO: The Big Moon, Pity Sex, Plush Brighton-based trio Our Girl make their debut with four pleasant yet guitar heavy tracks of female-fronted grunge. Soph Nathan of The Big Moon fame fronts this time around with a fantastic vocal performance matching the murkiness of the instrumentation. Normally is […]

katie kim–Salt Genre: Indie, Folk, Lo-Fi, Ambient, Post Rock FFO: Chelsea Wolfe, Muscle & Marrow, Eera Irish songstress (and part time member of The Waterboys) katie kim delivers a ravishingly evocative third LP. Salt places forth simplistic, droney, and grim instrumentation to fulfill the well-suited backdrop for her touching, powerful vocal presentation. Fans of early […]

CRIPPLED BLACK PHOENIX–Bronze  Genre: Progressive Rock, Stoner Rock FFO: Queens of the Stone Age, Pink Floyd, Electric Wizard After his departure from Sludge Metal outfit Iron Monkey, multi-instrumentalist Justin Greaves formed Crippled Black Pheonix in an effort his most unorthodox musical compositions straying from the linear crushing heaviness of the Sludge/Doom genre. Bronze serves as the […]

King Dude–Sex Genre: Goth Rock, Cult Rock, Neofolk, Alternative Country FFO: Chelsea Wolfe, Harm Wülf, Death in June Seattle, Washington’s beloved lord of all thing evil returns once more with LP #6. Sex is as provocative as the title suggests blending his signature haunting Neofolk with Goth Rock, Post Punk, and Alternative Country influences. Allow […]

American Football–LP2  Genre: Emo, Indie Rock, Math Rock FFO: Owen, Owls, Into It Over It 17 years ago, an Illinoise trio known as American Football released a self-titled record that has come to gain recognition as a flagship record of the emo genre along with Sunny Day Real Estate‘s Diary. The group disbanded before any […]

The Dillinger Escape Plan–Dissociation Genre: Mathcore FFO: Converge, Botch, Every Time I Die Legendary New Jersey mathcore act Dillinger Escape Plan present to you their final bow. Dissociation illustrates the twenty year career of the group at full circle capitalizing on the chaos of the earliest material while still subtly working in the bizarre nuances […]

Dreamarcher–Dreamarcher EP Genre: Experimental Rock, Post Rock, Space Rock, Black Metal FFO: A Place to Bury Strangers, Deafheaven, The Mars Volta Norwegian Experimental rock quartet Dreamarcher debut their unique sound to the world with a self titled EP that cannot be pigeonholed. Each of the five experimental tracks provide a range of progressive, spacey instrumentation, […]

Alcest–Kodama  Genre: Post Rock, Dream Pop, Shoegazing, Black Metal FFO: Deafheaven, Ghostbath, Harakiri for the Sky “Blackgaze” became a wildy used genre description with the explosive popularity of Deafheaven‘s sophomore LP Sunbather. The atmospheric complextion of Post Rock combined with the malevolence of Black Metal is often explored, but Deafheaven tends to receive credit for […]