(((O))) Tag: Oregon
Fresh from their successful vinyl release, Hollow Cells, in the summer, February sees Belonging teaming up with fellow Portlanders, Inny, for a split EP entitled The Dog. Today we premiere the title track.
Gavin Brown caught up with guitarist/songwriter Nick Wusz from acoustic doom band Dolven to hear all about In My Grave…Silence, the bands biggest influences and what Dolven have planned next.
When Selah Broderick reached out to her son, musician and composer Peter Broderick, asking if he’d like to help set some of her poetry to music, Peter replied immediately with a euphoric Yes! And once Peter heard Selah’s beautiful, vulnerable words, he dedicated himself to helping facilitate this album by his mother.
If you’re after some supreme underground extreme metal, unrelenting in focus and pace, then you need to get Tithe on your radar and Inverse Rapture assaulting your ears.
Gary Davidson caught up with Unhallowed Earth song writer, guitarist and vocalist Rusty Powers to unveil the first single ‘Wharf’ and detail the struggle not to be lost in the annals of the internet to ass cream and local rap stars.
The whole album paints a sonic image that tells us that Albertini and his Helvetia actually have something quite interesting to tell us musically.
Seems like the more stressful times get the more music Ripley Johnson supplies to counteract them.
Dead Coyote keeps that classical/Danny Elfman soundtrack combination as seen through the eyes of Billy Idol who has listened to a hefty dose of current electronica.
As I said earlier Future Times was the starting point, and it’s the heart of the album. It’s an expression of not knowing what is coming next. There is tension and uncertainty, definitely some paranoia, but also a determination to confront whatever is ahead of us. In hindsight I guess the idea is if we can get through all this, we can get through anything.
Don’t expect it to sit cosily next to your Candlemass records. This music is strange, sometimes difficult. It’s thrills are small, the songs are little secrets, slowly revealed.
My Echo by Laura Veirs could quite possibly make you feel small, fragile, but also determined and alive.
I would say that everything they’ve done on this album is done well. Unfortunately, I honestly feel like they could’ve done a lot more.
With what surely seems like an overly long, overly ambitious 70+ minute experimental death metal record, Portland, Oregon mavericks Aseitas prove to be yet another new name to follow, as they present a sophomore LP that delights, confuses and, most importantly, delivers at every turn.
2020 may be weird but it has seen another exceptional instrumental post-metal release, this is dense and dark and superbly enjoyable.
Uada prove with their third album that they may be the melodic black metal band that breaks beyond the genre’s confines and finds a large, commercial audience.
Complex, freeform extreme metal that unapologetically never strays far from the sonic path of the first track.
The summer of 2020 may be a write off as far as a lot of things go, finding an escape through music has become all the more enjoyable through Summerlong.
It sounds unlike anything else out there at the moment, and with the added colours of sax and pedal steel, only All Them Witches may lay claim to being a close companion in weird gothic countrified, free form jazz psych.
Considering its rather singular, not to say peculiar charms, it is an album I keep returning to – eager for it’s dirty sugar rush.
