Hex

There’s a particularly cruel kind of purgatory in rock music reserved for bands like Black Map—acts who weaponize the vocabulary of post-hardcore without ever learning its grammar. Now three albums deep, the Bay Area trio have once again assembled a wall of roaring guitars and introspective anguish on Hex, yet the result feels less like an evolution and more like someone tracing the outline of a movement that left them behind years ago.

Black Map, formed from the ashes of bands ... read more