New Music Report – June 26, 2020
My new music post for this past week is a bit short, but it’s also a bit late so my apologies for that. Actually, I owe two apologies on this one, I mixed up the date for both the Bell Witch album (actually this week) and the New Found Glory album (actually last week). So clearly, I’m a mess and this is all over the place. Either way, Bell Witch is still just as good as it was last week, so at least there’s that.
Bell Witch & Aerial Ruin – My mistake guys. I said this album came out last week, but it turns out I just got it kind of early, the actual release date is today. This is a great album though, definitely check it out.
Long Distance Calling – Long Distance Calling are a really interesting band. They’re often mislabeled as a post rock band but that isn’t completely true. It’s more an instrumental progressive metal band. The differences are fairly boring and long winded, so I won’t bother explaining it, but it’s worth pointing out. I’m a big fan of this band though, it’s a really nice take on both instrumental music, and metal in general. And I understand the genre nuances may seem like this is a very pretentious album, but the final product is very easy to digest; not overly technical, not elitist in the slightest, it’s just an interesting, chill metal project. I don’t think I’d put them on the same level as some of the giants in post/instrumental metal like Russian Circles, Pelican, Night Verses, etc – the last few albums were a bit on the boring side and showed us some weaknesses of the band – but it seems like they’re very much back to form and this new album is well worth a listen.
Emmure – There have been a ton of claims about Frankie being a changed person and not a shithead anymore and apparently, we’re really supposed to hear that in his music. Honestly, it’s entirely possible the Frankie stopped being an asshole, and if that’s true, absolutely good for him. I’m gonna catch a lot of shit for this opinion apparently, but his music still does absolutely nothing for me. It sounds like they tried to hop on that nu-metalcore bandwagon a little too hard while still just playing to the outdated chugging metalcore sound. I know a lot of people are excited for this, but definitely not me.