Features
The Machine Starts: Progressive Music, AI Slop, and the Fight for Artistic Expression
Chris takes a deep dive into AI music, the weirdness of the tech industry, and the musicians grappling with the implications of generative music slop.
Album Reviews
Review: Avkrvst – Waving at the Sky
A tribute to America’s most uninteresting president, a man who has absolutely nothing to do with this album.
Album Reviews
Review: Giant’s Knife – At the End of All Things
Giant’s Knife is filmed before a live studio audience
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Review: Feversea – Man Under Erasure
I got a fever and the only cure is more post-metal.
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Review: Rebekka Karijord – The Bell Tower
It’s not just the climate that’s breaking down, it’s also our writers!
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Review: Chris Beernink – The Chimera Suite
Now you step inside but you don’t see too many faces / comin’ in out of the rain to hear the big band jazz metal orchestra go down.
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Review: Benthos – From Nothing
“You stare at Benthos, they stare right back. And that’s when the sick mathcore comes, not from the front, but from the side. The point is, when they deliver sick mathcore, you are alive.”
– Sam Neill in Jurassic Park if you replaced raptors with Benthos, probably.
Album Reviews
Review: Nospūn – Ozai
Is Nospūn’s opus Ozai? Or was Nospūn Ozai’s opus? Or is Opus the Ozai of Nospūn? Or… hang on, my head hurts.