With a previous formidable track record consisting of three full-length concept albums, four experimental EPs, and a myriad of remixes and rearrangements to note, Belgian Industrial/Post-Rock unit Thot are resurfacing into the ever-dynamic civilization with their fourth studio album, Delta (Pelagic Records), which is a powerful amalgamation of everything all at once: people, places, spaces, and times that have shaped the band’s identity and helped form the integral parts of the band’s trajectory of life throughout the years. It envisages many forms of hope and perseverance against all odds – with all its atmospheric complexities and all-around-resonant distortions. Continue reading
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Riot Fest Books Taking Back Sunday, Coolio, Marky Ramone’s Blitzkrieg, Poliça, Zola Jesus and More
Riot Fest has added Taking Back Sunday, Coolio, Marky Ramone’s Blitzkrieg, Zola Jesus, Reece Young, Poliça and cumgirl8 join the diverse lineup of bands playing September 16-18 in Douglass Park. They join a lineup stacked with headliners My Chemical Romance, The Original Misfits, Nine Inch Nails. Continue reading
ALBUM REVIEW: Grave Lines – Communion
Continuing down the same nihilistic and misanthropic path of their previous releases, southern England’s Grave Lines are back with their third bouncy and joyously upbeat full length, Communion (New Heavy Sounds). Taking the doom of Neurosis, the post-punk rock of Killing Joke and gothic punk tendencies of Bauhaus, the perpetually disgruntled four-piece return with a little more ambient experimentalism which, however momentarily, relieves at least some of the crushing isolation. Continue reading

