The Judas Horse are a 3-piece who hail from Asheville, North Carolina. Linn Rogers, Meghan Mulhearn and David Lynch are the players bringing us Holy War, a 5-track album, which according to their web page tags, should sound like psychedelic southern go …

Anthroprophh is the new project for Paul Allen, while it seems that the band he is better known for The Heads are on hiatus. The Heads for anyone who doesn’t know them are a force of nature who took the essence of grunge bands like Mudhoney and mixed i …

Finally Baptists’ debut LP is looming over the horizon after what feels like the longest wait, and this is one of my most anticipated records of the year. Following up from the monumental self titled EP from 2010, Bushcraft is set to release the Vancou …

A distant war-horn, a call to arms which almost feels like a decoy, as the listener is greeted by the sonic equivalent of sneaking up behind them and bludgeoning their face with the nearest heavy, preferably jagged, object. A gradually intensifying whi …

Bubblegum girl pop has been a mainstay of the music biz throughout the years with a particular vein seemingly running through the independents. Sure, there were frequent outbursts, with the inimitable Altered Images coming to mind, but there has never …

YES! Target Earth brings the Rock. Voivod lives! The Canadian progressive metal legends are celebrating their (gasp!) 30th anniversary with their new release Target Earth. This is a special release for the band for many reasons. Most significantly, tha …

The more post-metal sludge I hear the more convinced I am that it’s sitting at or very near the current evolutionary peak of rock and metal, and there, with one hand firmly grasping the flag as it fights for its share, is Cult of Luna. Nowhere else doe …

Upon hearing the debut two-track release by Watford’s Lost in the Riots late last year, it was clear that they were a new band with ample potential. The two tracks were polar opposites of the instrumental spectrum; one track was a tender slice of post- …

One of the more exciting things about reviewing new music is when you stumble across something so different that you struggle to find a yardstick to compare it with. Granted, in these days of deconstruction and reconstruction, this is a rarity and a ne …

When you think of France, you can do some word association such as Eiffel Tower, Louvre, Tour de France, French Baguettes and grindcore. Wait, what? That’s right you didn’t misread that last one, grindcore. France has become one of the biggest producer …

Imagine yourself in a church and just as the organ begins to play the church suddenly sinks underwater and then just as you’re about to panic, you’re saved by a guitar riff that hauls you back to the surface. That’s pretty much the opening 10 seconds t …

Wartorn play brash hardcore ideal for working out to or venting the day’s frustrations via a little bedroom mosh. Packed full of some real pushing, old school hardcore that the current scene could really do with right now. The combined title and first …

There are a few artists on the planet that I could enjoy listening to singing the telephone directory. It’s all in the voice, natural and unforced, these artists have no need to “sing” as such, they just have the ability to make the sweetest sounds wit …

“THE MEN OF THE SOUTH WERE PERISHING. FOR MANY CYCLES THEY HAD FALLEN VICTIM TO THE CREATURES OF THE AIR AND THE SEA. THE GREAT EAGLES FROM THE EASTERN RANGES AND THE OCEANMASTERS, LORDS OF ALL SEA-BEASTS, HAD FORCED THE SOUTHERN PEOPLES TO FLEE TOWARD …

This self-titled debut EP by Cattle might very well be the earliest 2013 release to appear on (((o))) with its release date January 1st. They’re early. And they’re angry. All I know about these guys is that they’re from Leeds and when describing their …