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Let’s get the obvious caveat out of the way right at the start here; for those who associate Periphery primarily with long, metal-forward storybook-progressive metal, there’s a great chance that you’ll walk out of this album disappointed. “A Pale White Dot”, as a record, takes what I’d consider to be the core and base fundamentals of what makes Periphery sound like Periphery and says ‘alright, forget everything else — how can we do something ... read more
Increasingly often in the last few years I hear an album or track and all I can really say in response is 'baddiecore and its consequences have been a disaster for the metal scene' - and “brutalist”, the debut album of Northeastern US alternative outfit sace6, is now my up-to-date example of this.
Sace6 is a band which I admittedly hadn’t even planned on checking out until the conversation around them reached more and more of my circles. In a lot of ways, they ... read more
"Diamond morning", Karmanjakah's spiritual follow-up to their most recent EP — the Ancient Skills EP — is now quite possibly my quintessential example of a modern band taking a genre's base principles and truly creating something that stands on its own. Obvious and funny comparisons aside ("happy Vildhjarta", + Elton Djohn +, Humanity's First Breath), each track on this nearly 45-minute LP is packed with influences from all sorts of likely, and ... read more
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