New Music Report – June 17, 2022

With all the good music that’s come out this week, I honestly really only feel like there is a single thing that’s absolutely worth calling attention to, and that’s a new single from Russian Circles. There are a few bands that I’m a fan of that absolutely take precedence over just about everything else, and Russian Circles is one of them. And man, it did not disappoint. New album in a few months, and I can’t wait.

D.R.U.G.S. – I’m gonna be honest, I’m not quite sure I’ve forgiven Craig Owens for ruining Chiodos. Illuminaudio was objectively the musical peak of the band, and he came back and brought Thomas Erak from The Fall of Troy with him and still managed to make the worst album of the band’s career. But at the end of the day, he seems much happier focusing on DRUGS as his main project, the style suits him better, and with the help from Jona Weinhofen on guitar – the genius behind some of the best work from Bring Me the Horizon and I Killed the Prom Queen – the album actually turned out to be pretty solid. Maybe I can get over the whole Chiodos thing now.

Mire Lore EP – I generally don’t cover EPs unless they are especially notable, and this happens to be one of those. Dan Watson already put out one of my favorite albums of the year with Enterprise Earth, but he promptly left the band and has now released the first EP with his other project, Mire Lore. This is a bit more blackened deathcore than what we get with Enterprise Earth, but it also has clean vocals, so it’s a bit of an enigma. But holy shit, either way it’s fucking incredible.

Singles/Albums – Russian Circles (Post Metal), End It (Baltimore Hardcore), Norma Jean (Metalcore), Behemoth (Black Metal), Brojob (EP, Deathcore), Dir En Grey (LP, Japanese Metal), Enterprise Earth (Deathcore), Soilwork (Metal), 156/silence (Nu-Metalcore)