1. King 810 - K5: follow my tears (Flint, Michigan)
Genre: Metal Music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4LBpvfFaQzQKJU1GUVPniC?si=dyvMk2t5SlKydLmHsk442g
Your favorite band’s favorite band.
2. Conjureth - The Parasitic Chambers (San Diego, California)
Genre: Death Metal Music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0dy1LkyRZMuGXto5YE6Z77?si=GVn8GAmOS-W9wjHcyopX0A
Death Metal in the ways of old.
3. Still_bloom - euphoria_ (International)
Genre: Metalcore / Nu-Metal Music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6h4smhKMIjD0RN0F7dlIda?si=XYN6VkxMQECVVhMIgbcLOg
still_bloom is an international audio entity based out of the usa and the uk.
capturing the anathema of alienation and paranoia, still_bloom delivers a chaotic experience that is driven by sheer existential terror and emotional suffering.
you shall all become as gods.
downer_
4. Astral Moon - Into Solar Abyss (Rochester, New York)
Genre: Psychadelic / Doom Metal Music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5Fo8lmTXMihNCdWIH5NIPA?si=S5qSSr_BTsCyykp-bfRwzQ
Astral Moon is a one-man doom metal band formed in Rochester, NY in 2020. Fronted by Aidan Amy, he has since released one full-length album in 2021, Astral Necromancy, and has announced his second full-length, Into Solar Abyss, set to release 1/25/23.
Amy draws influence from bands like Electric Wizard, Black Sabbath, Sleep, Type O Negative, Woods of Ypres, and The Doors to create a psychedelic, fuzzy atmosphere - with a pinch of gothic doom. As an experienced saxophonist, he began incorporating sax solos into his songs with ‘Beneath the Coffin Grain’, adding a unique sound to doom. Prior to Astral Moon, Amy had a history of experimental electronic projects between 2017 - 2020. Some of these include the 90’s rave-inspired ‘Think’ and the gritty, industrial soundscape ‘Morte Pandemic’. He began making metal under the moniker of ‘Sister Constriction’ in mid 2020, producing a demo EP with an industrial thrash sound. He later abandoned the project and began putting his passion for doom metal into motion with the creation of Astral Moon by the end of the year.
5. Lil Yachty - Let's Start Here (Mableton, Georgia)
Genre: Hip-Hop Music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6icQOAFXDZKsumw3YXyusw?si=E75sJ5O7R5ew6VZhtnHtXQ
Combining feel-good positivity, druggy weirdness, and wild ATLian flair into a style he termed "bubblegum trap," rapper Lil Yachty scored his first platinum single with "One Night" (2016). Within two years, he had a pair of Top Ten albums with Teenage Emotions (2017) and Lil Boat 2 (2018), and a Grammy nomination via DRAM's "Broccoli," on which he was featured. Between the release dates of those proper albums for the Quality Control label, Yachty's approach shifted from a reliance upon willfully off-key singing and lackadaisical rhyming to that of a comparatively traditional MC, albeit with his irreverent sense of humor still gamely displayed. His style continued to evolve with his following recordings, including 2020's Lil Boat 3 and 2021's Michigan Boy Boat. Born Miles McCollum in the metropolitan Atlanta city of Mableton, Yachty began to break in 2015, when Drake's OVO Sound Radio aired his bizarre and singsongy "Minnesota." He truly crossed over in 2016. During the year, he released Lil Boat and Summer Songs 2, his first two commercial mixtapes for the emergent Quality Control Music The former featured "Minnesota" along with "One Night," a woozy party cut that reached number 30 on Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop chart, cracked the Hot 100, and went platinum. Also during the year, he was featured on DRAM's "Broccoli" and Kyle's "iSpy," both of which went Top Ten pop, and was part of Chance The Rapper's Top Ten release Coloring Book. "Broccoli" was nominated for a Grammy in the category of Best Rap/Sung Collaboration. Coloring Book took the award for Best Rap Album. Yachty continually added to his secondary discography as a collaborator, most visibly beside Carly Rae Jepsen on a remake of Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock's "It Takes Two," but during 2017 and 2018, he directed most of his energy toward his first two proper albums. Teenage Emotions, issued in May 2017, peaked in the Top Ten of the Billboard 200 and Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums charts, highlighted with the charting single "Peek a Boo," featuring Migos, Yachty returned the following March with Lil Boat 2, on which he sounded more like a traditional rapper with greater emphasis on enunciated verses and a reduction in off-key vocalizations. Following 2022's "Humble," a collaboration with Diplo , he scored a minor hit with the solo track "Poland."
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1. Nedrugh - Depersonalize (St. Petersburg, Russia)
Genre: Black Metal Music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4is0Vr7z1L11KK3jPPVJ1b?si=PgdkYdWkQ6G-V_s4beg38w
2. Sáasil - Ephemeral (Mexico)
Genre: Black Metal / Blackgaze Music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4C8X7zBzTNxYwZUEhUaPsD?si=lApTKp94QS2bXfDm0UOaWw
Post Black Metal Ethereal and Melancholy.
3. Kota the Friend - Lyrics to GO, Vol. 4 (Brooklyn, New York)
Genre: Hip-Hop Music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2AfU5LYBVCiCtuCCfM7uVX?si=cETeFXX1REyWQwdrNbR4Rw
Brooklyn rapper Kota the Friend bucked trends, favoring musically rich instrumentals and vivid, sometimes surreal wordplay over the interchangeable trap styles of many of his peers. His personal, often introspective lyrics and jazz-inflected beats met with well-groomed production on his 2020 album Everything. In 2021, he teamed up with producer Statik Selektah for the project To Kill a Sunrise. The third volume of his Lyrics to Go series appeared in 2022, as well as the album MEMO. Kota the Friend was born in Brooklyn in 1992. He started exploring music by playing trumpet at age eight, growing more and more interested in music production in his high school years. He performed in various bands and worked as a cinematographer for independent musicians' video projects before establishing himself as a solo artist with a trio of singles in 2017. Kota's style blended jazzy undercurrents with R&B touches over beats that took cues from multiple phases of hip-hop's evolution. His full-length debut album, Anything, was released in 2018 and included cameo appearances from Hello Oshay, Childish Major and Angel Haze. Positive reviews and press buzz came quickly, but Kota decided early on to stay independent. He would turn down offers from major labels multiple times over the next few years, opting for a D.I.Y. approach that offered him more creative control. In 2019, he released the FOTO mixtape, and the next year he followed it with the brief project Lyrics to Go, Vol. 1. His second studio album, Everything, was released in May 2020. Its summery production and unique arrangement choices gelled into one of Kota the Friend's most successful projects yet, in terms of both critical reception and the charts. A second volume of Lyrics to Go, which included the single "Pomegranate," followed in 2021, as did To Kill a Sunrise, his collaboration with producer and DJ Statik Selektah Lyrics to Go, Vol. 3, a 22-minute release that was still longer than either of the first two parts in the series, was released in 2022, followed by the full-length MEMO and single "Red Lights." Now we introduce Lyrics to GO, Vol. 4 ~ Fred Thomas
4. For I Am King - Crown (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Genre: Melodic Death Metal / Power Metal Music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2etNWORcmPZZBKxcyt6dF4?si=lZHQZEhiRYqLkLqZ7V5tWg
Dutch metal band FOR I AM KING are gearing up for the release of their brand new full-length studio album CROWN - the band's first release since the 2018 sophomore album ‘I’. The quintet offers modern, complex and furious but always catchy metal with hypnotic melodies, driven by the unique vocals of front-woman and eyecatcher Alma Alizadeh. The coming album is set to be released on the 19th of January 2023 serving as the proverbial crown to the quintets ten-year career. Since being formed in 2013, FOR I AM KING has released two albums ('Daemons' in 2016 and 'I' in 2018), which were internationally acclaimed by fans and critics alike. Furthermore the quintet has performed numerous shows worldwide, such as Japan, China and Europe (a.o. Jera On Air, Wacken Open Air, Metal Days, FortaRock, Full Force).
5. New Found Glory - Make the Most of It (Coral Springs, Florida)
Genre: Pop-Punk Music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4ghjRm4M2vChDfTUycx0Ce?si=LQf2GZpxQnuvvvgexJ4yKQ
As New Found Glory can attest, life moves quickly. Just three years after forming in Coral Springs, Florida, in 1997, the group were fast-tracked from local upstarts to mainstream stars on the back of ebullient pop melodies and hardcore-tinged breakdowns, setting off a blast of pop-punk dynamite that still lights the torch for modern acts more than two decades later. They became the voice of an underground movement, spurring iconic gold and platinum records (2000’s New Found Glory, 2002’s Sticks & Stones, and 2004’s Catalyst), countless MTV appearances, an entire subgenre (easycore) and sold-out tours the world over. But, as the band have also learned, everything can get upended in the blink of an eye. In December 2021, fresh off the celebratory Pop Punk’s Still Not Dead Tour in support of their 10th album, Forever + Ever x Infinity, guitarist Chad Gilbert was found unresponsive in bed at home, rushed to a local hospital, and diagnosed with an 8-inch cancerous tumor, a rare pheochromocytoma. Hospital stays, surgery, and a long road to recovery followed – but, in typical New Found Glory fashion, so did the songs. The band’s new acoustic album, Make The Most Of It (Revelation Records), tackles the last year head-on with their most emotional and cathartic collection of songs to date. The album is a rumination on what it means to grieve, to live, to approach every day with appreciation and a sense of fulfillment.
6. Scalp - Black Tar (California)
Genre: Death Metal / Grindcore / Violence Music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5CszF8X0mZXt8Tck93HJuv?si=KN8EqbCQQ8-BofV8ja9ZHQ
SCALP carved their way into the underground consciousness with Domestic Extremity (Creator Destructor) during 2020. CVLT NATION christened it “one of the most exciting and explosive heavy albums of the year,” while NO ECHO raved, “The Southern California outfit absolutely slays, spewing forth elements of power violence, death metal, hardcore, and sludge in a truly terrifying way.” During 2022, they hit the studio with producer Taylor Young [Deadbody, Twitching Tongues] of The Pit Recording Studio to cut Black Tar. The musicians only pushed harder than ever to match the intensity of the subject matter.
“Black Tar is a very negative outlook on my past life experiences: trauma, addiction, psychosis, losing family members to overdose, personal opinions with religion, and blasphemy,” notes guitarist Devan Fuentes. “I saw a side of humanity that was pretty disturbing to accept. It’s seeing people’s houses, seeing how they let themselves rot away, and seeing individuals who shouldn’t be alive kept alive just to live in suffering rather than die. The story isn’t about redemption or recovery. It’s very unfiltered judgement, and I wanted to replicate those experiences in the most disturbing way.”
7. SKÁLD - Huldufólk (France)
Genre: Nordic Folk Music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3uliAYf4KyTkBpVf3BiWVv?si=wlOrYjZnQcibNMbyFxmGLA
In the last few years, SKÁLD has taken an unexpected path through the international musical landscape by breathing new life into the Viking spirit. The group was founded in 2018 when producer-composer Christophe Voisin-Boisvinet brought together some first-rate talents to form an immersive musical project; SKÁLD embraces the ancestral spirit of the ancient skalds who chanted of the legends surrounding the peoples of the North and their gods.
8. GLOM - Pebble (Brooklyn, New York)
Genre: Lo-fi / Indie Rock Music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0OY528sf5HGsPB2xi8BJ4H?si=4zV17rzPQXORmoxlxje0jA
indie lofi slowcore shoegaze rock boyz GLOM’s forthcoming EP, "Pebble" manages the trick of making self-examination and dystopian thoughts feel and sound good. “A lot of the songs are derivative of how hellish our current world is,” explains Dunnevant. “But from a musical standpoint, a lot of this record is happy and upbeat. They’re heavy songs, but you don’t have to feel bad about it.
9. Turbid North - The Decline (Fort Worth, Texas)
Genre: Death Metal / Doom Metal Music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6006zYjiggH7b9BySvr1ps?si=4uX2mOMORT6gP6W_EKm4nQ
Turbid North is a three piece heavy doom band originating from Alaska and currently located in Fort Worth, Texas. After a hiatus, 2022 saw the band regroup to release their 3rd full length album "The Decline". Written during some of the bleaker periods in the band's lifespan, the album sees a darker and more aggressive sound added to the formula. Featuring themes of depression and mental illness, all set in the landscape of sci-fi lore that permeated their last album. "The Decline" is a collection of songs that delves into the downfall and self-destruction of a person.
10. Tactosa - Exit Wounds (Tampa, Florida)
Genre: Deathcore Music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1maC5DWQKBAQqmjfp3qCpI?si=EcXYU-gkSu2nvWdjxjl7CQ
Central Florida based Tactosa takes the raw, crushing sound of early Deathcore into the modern day. Piercing high vocals, brutally heavy riffs, combined with modern hardcore and death metal influences, makes Tactosa feel like a fresh return to form for the genre.
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1. Nicole Dollanganger - Married in Mount Airy (Whitchurch-Stouffville, Canada)
Genre: Gothic Dream Singer-Songwriter Music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0MfC3pip8rY8OFLJVVNvBO?si=GliPs7uDRwCV1jCZy__yEQ
Southern Ontario singer/songwriter Nicole Dollanganger first began posting her gothic dream pop songs on her blog in 2012. With her childlike voice and dark lyrical content, Dollanganger soon developed a devoted base, self-releasing four full-length records written, recorded and produced alone in her bedroom. In 2015 she was the first artist featured on Grimes Eerie Organization, a collective created solely for the purpose of releasing Dollanganger’s fifth album Natural Born Losers. In the following year, Dollanganger’s song “Chapel" featured in episode 16 of The Walking Dead and Run For Cover Records reissued 2013’s “Ode to Dawn Wiener: Embarrassing Love Songs" and 2014's "Observatory Mansions".
2. True Faith - Go to Ground (Boston, Massachusetts)
Genre: Goth/ Post-Punk / Shoegaze Music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6pFgoptrzxRnASd8o4weON?si=JrVe6sbkRXqZfTPVuHyZxw
Boston can be a cold and desolate place, but there’s a warmth hidden under its shadows and deep within its edges. The True Faith embody that spirit, twirling along the margins of post-punk and coldwave to create a magnetic sound that’s rooted in the quintet’s adopted home city. Acclaimed debut EP "As Much Nothing As Possible" was released January 2021 via emerging imprint à La Carte Records, the first recorded doctrine of a band on the brink of its own internal evolution. With the release of their debut full-length album, "They Can Always Hurt You More," are songs about love and loss, pain and euphoria, the gray in between the black and white. Now released is Go To Ground!
3. HolyName - S/T
Genre: Holy Drone Violent Worship Music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/70dru8oehK8CwnNzANx6CJ?si=nCBs7n36S1uR0oKzx2Bd0g
HolyName’s watchword is preachcore, and their self-described sound of “holy drone violent worship” makes a lot of sense when you hear their songs. The new album is essentially a love letter to Christ and a tribute to the history of eastern orthodoxy. A season of death and profound brokenness caused Tommy Green to dive deeply into the very beginnings of the church, seeking for the connection between holy orthodoxy and liturgical practices, and today’s modern Pentecostal charismatic church. He found beauty in a hidden treasure that he didn’t fully understand, his pain driving him to a place he never intended to go. Orthodox imagery is extremely influential to the graphics and lyrics of HolyName’s work. The holy orthodox church and the historical origin of Christianity became very important to Tommy personally and that’s why the imagery seems so saturated with traditional ancient orthodox Christianity.The genesis of the idea of HolyName sprang from a lockdown project when Joe and Tommy recruited friends from their church community nationwide to participate in a worship “mix tape.” Tommy’s initial contributions were an acoustic song he wrote in 2014 called “Meet Me Somewhere Quiet” and a cover of a song by his brother-in-law Aaron Craner called “Fall On Your Knees”. He sent the songs to Joe who turned them from acoustics to fully instrumental heavy tracks. When the duo heard the first finished products they were excited to keep going. Tommy felt like he was using the songs and the choruses and the sounds of HolyName to try to keep his faith alive when he felt like it was dying.“Some of the answers that I have been given by the modern charismatic Christian culture weren’t adequate. There were gaps that I couldn’t seem to fill in the face of death. I knew the faith that brought me brought me through Sleeping Giant and nurtured that ministry was beautiful, but I was losing such faith that I needed to find the eyes of Christ somewhere and I couldn’t seem to get my feet under me with the answers that I had. I was really in danger of walking away from quite a lot.” The search into the origin of his faith opened the door for Tommy to fall in love with orthodoxy. He has been able to use the experience of this project to process his grief and work through broken-heartedness. In addition to Tommy Green and Joe Holt, the HolyName project features mixing and mastering by Ryan Leitru, additional vocals from The REV Gang choir, Brook Reeves of Impending Doom, Eric Gregson of xDeathstarx, Joe Advent, Danon Saylor of Nothing Left, Ryan Clark of Demon Hunter, and Mike Felker of Convictions, with beats produced by Hunter Babcock of Wolf Skin.
4. The Wise Man's Fear - Atlas Ruinica (Indiana)
Genre: Fantasycore Music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0Ir2YUbOtgP5GeOzQicQ44?si=YvCtOfPSTS2tstkHveSOtA
SPINNING UNFORGETTABLE LORE THROUGH SWEEPING CLEAN VOCALS, CRUSHING HARDCORE BLUDGEONING, AND DYNAMIC METALLIC PROFICIENCY, THE INDIANA “FANTASYCORE” SEXTET—PAUL LIERMAN [DRUMS, LYRICS], JOSEPH SAMMUEL [VOCALS], CODI CHAMBERS [GUITAR], TYLER EADS [VOCALS], NATHAN KANE [GUITAR, VOCALS], AND THOMAS BARHAM [BASS]—BUILT TOWARDS THIS MOMENT ON THEIR 2015 INDEPENDENT DEBUT CASTLE IN THE CLOUDS AND ITS 2017 FOLLOW-UP LOST CITY. INTEGRATING IMMERSIVE FANTASY INTO A HYBRID OF METAL, DEATHCORE, AND ALTERNATIVE, THEY CARVED OUT A SINGULAR NICHE.
5. Obituary - Dying of Everything (Tampa, Florida)
Genre: Death Metal Music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0SbGI4sb8dAKFZnK7RFyhz?si=xGsAKldPTwmkvUjSrYQPhQ
Tampa, Florida's Obituary are a veteran death metal band whose origins date back to the style's first wave. Though they've endured lineup changes, three of its original members -- drummer Don Hardy, vocalist Tom Hardy, and guitarist Trevor Peres -- have been aboard since 1986. Their early sound juxtaposed lo-fi death metal and hardcore, while Hardy's vocals, though screamed, were readily decipherable -- this is no longer true and lyric sheets are necessary. Early albums including 1989's Slowly We Rot and 1990's Cause of Death embodied the chug and burn aesthetic. Following the release of 1997's Back from the Dead, they split for several years. In 2004, a reunited quintet recorded Frozen in Time. Xecutioner's Return followed in 2007 to glowing reviews internationally. Darkest Day appeared in 2009. The band issued Inked in Blood in 2014 and Obituary in 2017. Three live albums and the single "A Dying World" were released between 2020 and 2022. In January 2023 the full-length Dying of Everything was released by Relapse
6. Wiltwither - The House I Lived In (SINGLE) (Columbia, South Carolina)
Genre: Metalcore Music: https://open.spotify.com/track/3zbKRN4120rxB4qLjkbNes?si=ceb4ab58b495408c
Wiltwither is a collection from the Carolinas that focuses on the tough realities people face. They weave together topics like loneliness, abuse, loss and depression while blending grim, noisy, unstable elements of metalcore, nu-metal, thall and hardcore. These songs...these lyrics are ours, but they belong to you. We are all in pain. Reminiscent of Loathe, Silent Planet and Spiritbox.
7. Cold Steel - Deeper Into Greater Pain (Tampa, Florida)
Genre: Metallic-Hardcore / Crossover Music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2inu89bjNrWjp92nEqloP2?si=7iU4yHqGRcmBDAmbHsB9qA
The Homies
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1. Remorseful - Our Law, Grace (Massachusetts)
Genre: Black Metal Music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/67Fk8fSrUacXjVI6AYYBRU?si=275kB0ZuQZKIXhOuhHs18g
Remorseful is antifascist and intersectional feminist.
2. Fireworks - Higher Lonely Power (Detroit, Michigan)
Genre: Pop-Punk Music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2FcxTTXQKgTdJzTeACMlVU?si=nutXkQ9PREWvdoVCV47jhg
A band as colorful and explosive as their name implies, Fireworks is a band who create a sound with enough pop quality to keep your little sisters attention and enough edge to rid them of the "guilty pleasure" status. Hailing from stereotypically suburban Metro Detroit, Fireworks is comprised of five electric personalities with endless influences. Together they create a unique blend of "infectious, well-written punk with an undeniable sense of melody.
3. Beautiful Death - Finis (Melbourne, Australia)
Genre: Acoustic Black Metal / Indie Folk Music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3Rqjq9sDEbaEiVPg0eqy8p?si=wuGNkVCGRB-uO0eyr3U2SQ
Australian based neo-folk and black metal one man project.
4. Anti-Flag - Lies They Tell Our Children (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
Genre: Punk Music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/30sqtiTKIb1oDve0SdYayT?si=LI5CXIVMQeyEvx8dwrV69A
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania’s Anti-Flag have made it abundantly clear for nearly thirty years that their message and presence will always feel relevant at any given time. Never afraid to offer raw and unfiltered critiques on the failings of the modern political landscape, or position themselves across multiple genres, Anti-Flag are committed to constant evolution. While their early material was rooted in fast, anthemic, and visceral punk rock with classic albums such as Die for the Government and For Blood and Empire, Anti-Flag has brought the rock back into punk rock with later records including American Fall and 20/20 Vision. Now 13 records in with Lies They Tell Our Children produced by Jon Lundin (Good Charlotte, Senses Fail, Sleeping With Sirens) the band offers it’s boldest collection of songs to date in the form of a compelling concept album. Working with Lundin was the perfect union, as Chris #2 declares, “I think you can hear that in the songs, there is an urgency to it and that’s how we recorded them. We wanted to stay on task and knew what we wanted both sonically and politically. I don’t think we’ve worked this meticulously on songs since 2006 with For Blood And Empire.” With the release of Lies They Tell Our Children, and ANTIfest 2022, the Pittsburgh punks in Anti-Flag are set to continue their artistic evolution and mission for revolution.
5. Wisdom And War - Superior Design (Worcester, Massachusetts)
Genre: Metallic Hardcore Music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2bMNVNhVzqmjB05W7dNeXx?si=bFD6JIvxT_ynWtlqdr8Gkw
"Central/Western Massachusetts metallic hardcore band Wisdom & War are releasing a new eight-song EP, Superior Design, on Unbeaten Records this Friday. The EP was produced by Charlie Abend, and Aaron Knuckles of Death Threat lends his voice to opening track "Can't Stop Me" (and his guest vocals were produced by NYHC veteran Don Fury). The EP owes as much to nu metal as it does to classic hardcore, and as you'd probably hope and expect, it's bone-crushingly heavy." - Andrew Sacher @ Brooklyn Vegan
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