Getting their name from a character in an 1880 Fyodor Dostoevsky novel The Brothers Karamazov, Stinking Lizaveta formed in 1994 in Philadelphia and are comprised of Yanni Papadopoulos – guitar, Alexi Papadopoulos – upright electric bass, and drummer Cheshire Agusta.
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Psychedelic hard-rock trio Moon Destroys may officially hail from Atlanta, Georgia. Still, there’s something cosmic about their music—a suitable association when the band’s very name suggests something astrologically out of this world.
Despite being from London, Cold in Berlin once again lives up to their name, as it conjures, stark, wintry urban landscape at night. Wounds (New Heavy Sounds) finds the band going further down the path they wandered down on their previous album, which found them more fully committing to their crossover into doom. The opening track of their new album blurs the lines even further, carrying a darker, more pulsating beat. Vocalist Maya belts things out with the expected intensity of her aching alto. The hypnotic pulse of “12 Crosses” shares some common ground with grunge from the nineties, as more exotic flourishes of atmosphere are also employed. Continue reading