ALBUM REVIEW: Movements – RUCKUS


 

Ever since their debut album, Feel Something, blew up in 2017, the massive surge of dedicated fans have held Southern California post-hardcore and emo band Movements to a high standard when it comes to follow-up material. As the group grows older, their music continues to grow with them, as made evident with their 2020 release No Good Left To Give, and now their third full-length album, RUCKUS! (Fearless Records). While the band is no longer the same sad boys they started out as, there are still pieces of their old selves mixed into their new, matured evolution, with RUCKUS! about to elicit a peculiar balance of dancing, moshing, and crying.

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Lyric Video: Matriarchs – Deadman


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Southern California metal outfit Matriarchs are streaming a lyric video for “Deadman,” off their forthcoming album Scandalous Jointz, out this summer via Five Rings Records below. The band features current and former members of Hoods, Ruckus and The Faceless.

The band has these upcoming shows:

Apr 12: Chain Reaction – Anaheim, CA (with Bane)
Apr 25: Sports Arena Campground – Pico Rivera, CA (Spring Breakdown Music Festival with Otep. As Blood Runs Black, Ill Nino and more)

Matriarchs on Reverbnation