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“We could have been a really good stadium band. It would have not been any good for the personalities in the band – it would have driven us all absolutely insane I would have thought. Any level of success would have made us worse people in my opinion. We could have been really good at it though. It didn’t happen and that’s that – it is what it is. It’s not a good or bad thing, just a thing. I would have liked to have made that second record though. There’s nothing wrong with being unknown, with being anonymous, it’s what almost everyone is – but try telling that to an arrogant idiot in his early twenties. . .”
Michael J Hall, Nebraska
Articles by Charlie Gardner
The genesis of “End of the World” traces back to Citizend’s first encounter with artificial intelligence. Prompted with the task to conjure a song lyric for the end of days, the band received a chilling response from the AI: “it was your own fault.”
The lyrics to ‘Accretion Disk Necropolis’ are based around this weird dream I had where there was this sprawling “graveyard” of used up/ uninhabitable planets, derelict vessels, and all this broken space-tech slowly being swallowed up by a monstrous living black hole.
MANBIRD!? I have no idea what it means. Ask Steve Hands, he came up with it. No, don’t ask him. He won’t know either. . .
Immersive music meant to be listened to at a loud volume or in the space between headphones.
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Counterlife is the debut album from London’s post-hardcore proponents, The Higher Line.
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We thought it about time we prised open some of the the paranormal power-trio’s secrets, so we asked them to share three records that inspired and influenced All The Colours Of Darkness.
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The FVRMN frontman waxes lyrical about the four records that have been his greatest influences.
Exclusive premiere of the second single from just out It Gets Worse (via Human Worth) with 10% of all sales proceeds donated to the Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust Charitable Fund.
Back To The Whip was meant to be a “one and done” kind of a raw slam punch to the guts; but once he got a few friends on board to help out, things began shaping up into a more refined type of beast with multiple layers that slowly began to expose themselves with each repeated listen.
Sheena Dham releases the breakout single ‘I Can’t’ from her forthcoming EP, Familiarity Heuristic. ‘I Can’t’ stomps in with melismatic vocals upon its entry, grunge inspired ‘I Can’t’ is propelled by a 7/8 live drum and programmed drum groove. Dha …
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“What we saw after decompressing the video stream blew us away, not only had they captured a beautiful cinematic exploration of the exoplanet’s sand dunes, but we can see their journey across the expanse of space was successful.”
