Album Review: Northlane – Alien

While their fellow countrymen in Parkway Drive have taken their sound in a more expansive, stadium-sized direction in recent years, Australia’s Northlane have taken a more progressive path. Still, up until their last album, 2017’s Mesmer, they remained blatantly a metalcore band at heart, holding on to everything that rooted them in that scene, with electronic and prog flourishes livening up their sound. On the self-produced Alien, this is no longer strictly the case, since they have embraced electronic music with an undeniable verve, making it a core element rather than embellishment, and in doing so delivered a record that defiantly stands apart from the movement that spawned them, and indeed their own past. It’s an ambitious, dark and haunting collection, and likely to polarise any fans...

Related article

Parkway Drive Announce Fall 2023 U.S. Headline “Monsters Of Oz” Tour; The Band Celebrates 20th Anniversary

Parkway Drive – “Imperial Heretic” Official Lyric Video

Here’s the setlist from Parkway Drive’s U.S. tour

Korn announce 18-date summer U.S. tour with Evanescence

Korn and Evanescence are teasing something together

Korn – Let The Dark Do The Rest (Official Audio)

Korn – Worst Is On Its Way (Official Audio)

Korn – ‘Requiem’ [Album Review]

Korn – Requiem (Full Album Stream)

Korn – Lost In The Grandeur (Official Audio)

Listen to Korn’s hypnotic new single, Lost In The Grandeur

KORN、2/4リリースのニュー・アルバム『Requiem』より新曲「Lost In The Grandeur」公開!

KORN、ニュー・アルバム発売記念した配信ライヴ”Requiem Mass”開催決定!

Korn – Forgotten (Official Audio)

KORN、2/4リリースのニュー・アルバム『Requiem』より新曲「Forgotten」公開!

Korn are teasing a new single; hear a snippet now

KORN、2/4リリースのニュー・アルバム『Requiem』国内盤にボーナス・トラック「I Can’t Feel」収録決定!

System Of A Down and Korn announce new 2022 shows

Guns N’ Roses, Foo Fighters, KISS, Korn and many more for Welcome To Rockville 2022

Korn’s Munky on nu-metal’s big 2021 releases: “The people making the music still have their hearts in it”

unsplash-logoLilith Redmoon