New Music Report – March 12, 2021
Trying my best to get back on schedule with my new music posts this week, and I’ve got a few pretty obscure ones that I was actually pretty excited about, and a long list of very strange singles that are also worth combing through. And, as the result of several requests, I’ve started compiling a Spotify playlist of these posts. I’m still working out the specifics so I’m down for suggestions, but I think it’s going to be a big playlist that I just add to every week so by the end of the year it’ll be a compilation of everything. I’m working on going back and backfilling everything from January, so it’ll be up to date from here on out. But if there’s a way that you’d prefer, please let me know.
Pupil Slicer – First off, let’s get this out of the way, this band has an awesome name. I’m not gonna lie, that was about 50% of the reason I checked them out in the first place. The other half is because it said they were for fans of The Chariot and Dillinger Escape Plan. So, you know, I’m already sold. Conversely, however, there are moments where it does feel a little TOO like The Chariot and Dillinger, following very closely to the tried and true chaotic mathcore formula as opposed to leaving some breathing room for creativity and originality, which was something that made The Callous Daoboys stand out so strongly a few years ago. So, I’m not quite sure I can say this is on the same level as that album, but it’s still a wonderfully chaotic heavy barrage of sound. And if only for that, I’m a huge fan. But in actuality, it really is so much more than that. This album looks somewhere in the middle of mathcore, grind, and even a bit doom, which is really just a brilliant combination of frenetic, world ending magnitude. So, revolutionary or not, it’s still an incredible, busy, heavy, disaster of an album and I love it.
Rise to the Sky – From a crazy mess of an album, to the completely opposite end of the metal spectrum; a crushing, meandering, oppressive atmospheric doom album that reaches out into eternity. As slow as the album may be, the one man project has been hard at work over the past year, putting the rest of us musicians that said we’d make something brilliant during this pandemic to shame. After two EPs and now this full length in just a year’s time, Rise to the Sky might just be one of the hardest working people in music. And while each release may not be entirely unique from each other, they are all absolutely brilliant and sorrowful doom metal mixed with dark elements of death metal and teeming with a thick, dismal atmosphere that blankets the album from start to finish. It’s awesome. It’s deeply sad, and feels just so immense, you can barely tell where the soundscape starts and ends; you get lost in the immeasurable depth of this album. The entire experience is hauntingly beautiful. There’s a lot to digest here, and just an incredible amount of talent on an album that you can really immerse yourself in.
Singles/Albums – Erra (Metalcore), Phoebe Bridgers (Special version of Kyoto), Darko (Deathcore), Annalynn (Djent/Progressive metalcore), EyeHateGod (LP, Sludge metal), To the Grave (Deathcore), Sion (Metalcore, Howard Jones from Killswitch and Jared Dines from YouTube), Devil Sold His Soul (Metalcore/Post hardcore), NovelistsFR (Metalcore), Convictions (Metalcore), The Drowned God (Post metal), Eternal Void (Metalcore/Deathcore), Left to Suffer (Deathcore), Trapt (MAGAcore), Our Hollow Our Home (Metalcore), Trophy Scars (Bluesy post hardcore)