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INTERVIEW: Blind Equation’s James McHenry on “A Funeral in Purgatory” – Cybergrind, and 8-Bit Extremity

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Chris Elliott (Cell Arts Media / ⁨Black-Angeles⁩ ) caught up with James McHenry, the songwriter and producer behind Chicago cybergrind project Blind Equation, to discuss the band’s latest album, A Funeral in Purgatory, released in 2025 through ⁨Prosthetic Records⁩. James breaks down how a solo internet project started in 2012, blending abrasive electronic beats, 8-bit video game aesthetics, heavy bass synths, and emotional screaming, eventually expanded into a full live lineup and one of extreme music’s most genuinely genre-resistant projects. Continue reading →


INTERVIEW: Anatomy of Habit on “Paired Sentinels” and the Genre-Resistant Sound Nobody Else Is Making

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Chris Elliott (Cell Arts Media @Black-Angeles ) caught up with Mark Solotroff, vocalist and analog synth player for Chicago’s Anatomy of Habit, to discuss the band’s fifth full-length album, “Paired Sentinels,” self-released and available on LP, CD, cassette, and digital. Mark breaks down the album’s four expansive compositions, the themes of repetition, memory, identity, and emotional erosion that run through the record, and what it means to reach this level of internal chemistry with the band’s longest-running lineup. Continue reading →


ALBUM REVIEW: Pixel Grip – Perceptide: The Death of Reality

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Are you feeling sexy? If the answer is no, that is about to change once you press play on Pixel Grip’s Perceptide the Death of Reality. The grooves on this album will stir your loins in a way that will have you side-eying that jar of Vaseline you’ve been too depressed to touch in weeks. There is a bit of foreplay to set the mood as it opens with an atmospheric pop song that simmers with introspection. Rita Lukea is very aware that singing is a lot like sex, as it requires putting your heavy breathing in all the right places, which she has mastered on “Bet You Do.” This gives the song a sensual slither that licks your ears and tells you to turn the lights off.  Continue reading →