KISU MIN confront the fractures of the present on “Rudolf Steiner House”

JUNKBREED unveil “51% Gone” ahead of their new album “Sick of the Scene”

In Shorts: New Releases, Sept 19-26th

IRK’s “The Seeing House” takes absurd humor and jagged noise into a single warped vision

SAINTHOOD REPS return with “Dull Bliss,” an album about depression, anxiety, and the weight of lived memory

Blackened screamo beast DEMERSAL confront consumerism and fracture on “Vi kunne ikke blive her for evigt, vel?”

From basement pits to legendary guests, THE PLANET SMASHERS bring it all back with “On the Dancefloor”

EARTHSET return with the new single “Zemlja” after years of silent film scores

Bleakfest Vol 2 brought eight bands and a DIY spirit to Portland’s Hawthorne Theater

Indie folk rocker John Tomasevich returns with a stripped-down album built on old wounds, new struggles, and political unrest

SPIRITISTE unleash the “Transagion Prayer”

Pain without resentment: MURINA turn psychomagic into sound and vision

Crushing metalcore crew WALLS release “Endeavour of Destruction”, new video for “Gears of the Cold Machine”

BILLY release the new EP “Hell Is When I’m With You” as their pissed-off third year statement

In Shorts: New Releases, Sept 12-19th

Antenna93 dives into folk horror imagery on noise rock experiment “Jack in the Green”

Climate dread and screamo catharsis collide on starsdontmeananything’s “Fire is Beautiful”

FRIGHTFUL PLACES capture the unease of not fitting in with “Third Wheel”

Norwegian noise rockers HARABALL drag aging, absurdity, and noise into “Fear of the Plow”

Dark screamo / post hardcore band TRELKOVSKY rise from the fog of northern Italy with “Le stesse cose ritornano”