In a world obsessed with trends and fads that last a microsecond, the pressure is always on to deliver something palatable to a mass audience with the attention span of a brain-damaged goldfish. With his new album Lunaria, Danimal Cannon is ignoring the seductive pull of the same-but-slightly-different, and delivering something really different.
Danimal Cannon is a chiptune master, capable of blending multiple genres, timbres, instruments, and moods into a long-player that is an acquired taste, but a legitimately rewarding taste nonetheless. After I listened to Lunaria in its entirety and reviewed it here, this interview could only kick off with one question…
Your new album Lunaria broke my brain, in a good way! So my opening question has to be: Just how the hell did you make it? How did the tracks on Lunaria go from idea to reality?Read more…
Over the course of the past 26 years, Therapy? have been renowned for diving deep into the darkest recesses of the human mind, and returning with musical treasures aplenty.
Countless songs have been written about overcoming problems and moving on – but Blood Youth’s music cuts deeper than the average. 2015’s debut EP Inside My Head proved a hell- and hair-raising hardcore rampage, fuelled by Kaya Tarsus’ mind-inflaming personal struggles – and now, Blood Youth have reached the point of Closure.
It’s well deserved, to say the least.
Listening to Closure, it felt like my brain was being Read more…
Wolf Down’s music is hectic, aggressive, and vicious. From the moment first track proper Against The Grain kicks off with harsh beats and old-school thrashy riffage, you’d be forgiven for assuming that Wolf Down are here to do little more than get in your face for no good reason. But below the surface, Incite & Conspire is set to deliver a message centred in sensitivity, sense, and compassion.
It’s easy to forget that hardcore isn’t all about one thing, namely getting Read more…
Danimal Cannon’s Lunaria is a mostly instrumental industrial-prog album, composed on a 1989 Nintendo Game Boy and loosely based around a conceptual story inspired by the Giant Impact Hypothesis.
Whether you’re new to the chiptune world or a die-hard veteran, you’re unlikely to have heard something this relentlessly left of centre before.
Acclimatising to Lunaria’s claustrophobic, digitised-to-the-nth-degree universe is challenging, to say the least. But once you get past the initial sense of sonic culture shock, its true nature as Read more…
When you walk into a venue using The Algorithm’s OCTOPUS4 as a pre-show auditory appetizer, you know it’s going to be an intense night.
Nordic Giants (93%) became new TMMP favourites by the end of a stunningly (and literally) cinematic set. Watching a multi-tasking duo soundtrack a series of masterfully crafted videos in real time is not Read more…
Progressive metal is often dismissed for being too something. Self-indulgent. Flat. Soulless. Etc.
Sometimes, the criticism is justified; at other times, it isn’t.
In Toska’s case, none of the above apply. This is progressive metal with heart, soul, and spirit – not to mention the kind of forward-thinking intelligence that defines the best the genre has to Read more…
Incubus. Tool. A Perfect Circle. Three of the greatest alt-rock/metal acts of all time. And key influences on Filter, the upcoming single release from the Australian underground jawbreakers known as Figures.
You could easily count me in just on the above alone – but throw in socially conscious lyricism addressing the social media attention sink and an inevitably impeccable mixing job by Karnivool über-producer Forrester Savell, and Read more…
