In 2021 Wode released their third album Burn In Many Mirrors via 20 Buck Spin to wide acclaim throughout the international metal underground. The band had evolved their sound into a searing amalgamation of black metal, death metal and flashes of classic heavy metal anthems and solos, never sacrificing the dark spirit for which they’d…
Two decades into their journey as ritualistic black metal conjurers, WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM have emerged from the forest with Primordial Arcana, their most majestic album to date, and their first release via Relapse Records. Primordial Arcana is the band’s first completely self-contained work: In addition to composition and performance, brothers Aaron and Nathan…
Wooden Shjips, long-time leaders of the contemporary psychedelic movement, expand their sound with V. On their fifth album the quartet of Ripley Johnson (Moon Duo), Omar Ahsanuddin, Dusty Jermier, and Nash Whalen augment their already rich sound with laid back, classic summer songs. Inspired by the tumult of the modern world, and the desire to…
Wooden Shjips stand at the forefront of modern psychedelic rock and present, West their first album for Thrill Jockey. The over riding theme for the album (as indicated by the title) is the American West, and all of the mythology, romanticism, and idealism that it embodies. The band members grew up on the East Coast,…
Woods are in bloom again, inviting you to disappear into a new spectrum of colors and sounds and dreams on Perennial. Formed in Brooklyn in 2004, Woods have matured into a true independent institution, above and below the root, reliably emerging every few years with new music that grows towards the latest sky. Operating the…
Burrowing through the mire of the endless Floridian swamps like an arcane travesty of nature, the shadow-bound entity more commonly known only as Worm present Foreverglade, a strange amalgam of things that ooze, things that crawl and some things that remain still for centuries before crumbling back into the dust and dirt unobserved by mortal…
Lauren Denitzio is a maven at writing pop-punk anthems. Playing music for over a decade – beginning with the New Brunswick punk band The Measure {sa} – we had yet to see what Denitzio could accomplish as a sole songwriter until recently. Worriers, the Brooklyn-based band fronted by Denitzio and joined by friends, has released…
Psycho Active is the debut solo album by Sacramento rapper, X-Raided, released April 16, 1992 through Black Market Records. Most of the lyrics contain themes of violence, alcohol marijuana use and depict gang-life.
After being 3 years in the works, here’s finally the official reissue of the only Demo by this demonic Black Thrash horde from Singapore, originally released on tape in 1994 and revered by maniacs as a hidden gem of absolute cult… Ripped straight from the band’s master reels and pressed on 180 gram vinyl to…
The colossal fourth album from the US DSBM god available again! Xasthur s colossal fourth album, To Violate The Oblivious , originally released in 2005, available again for the first time since 2019! A major influence on the USBM and international DSBM (Depressive Suicidal Black Metal) scene, and a contemporary of such acts as Wolves…
East Coast minimal wave institution Xeno & Oaklander’s seventh full-length further distills their iconic noir synth pop into a streamlined suite of gleaming, graceful retrofuturism. Inspired by ideas of synesthesia, scent, star worship, and obsolescent technologies, the duo of Liz Wendelbo and Sean McBride began conceiving the blueprint of Vi deo while sequestered at their…
30th Anniversary Edition , colored vinyl. The two biggest constants throughout Xiu Xiu s catalog are honesty and evolution. Thisremains true with Dear God, I Hate Myself as it delivers a look at responsibility, fear, healing, and societal roles wrapped in rich gothic pop music. The sound is still distinctly Xiu Xiu, but Jamie Stewart…
Originally released in 2016, XL Middleton’s Tap Water Runoff was first issued as a limited-run cassette of cuts that were intended for his 2015 Tap Water album but not included in the final run. After many requests from fans of the tape, Tap Water Runoff is finally being released on vinyl – A limited run…
These potent studies in historical recreation and indigenous transcendence conjure the ritual, mythical and spiritual…Precious and dreamlike. Songlines Doomy leftfield new age experimentalism vibing at ruined temples and sacred sites. The Wire Xochimoki – celebrated American ethnomusicologist Jim Berenholtz and Aztec descendant wisdom keeper Mazatl Galindo – traverse millenia with career compendium Temple Of The…
 Xymox was founded in 1983 in Nijmegen, a city in the east of the Netherlands, by Ronny Moorings (vocals, guitars, synthesizers) and Anka Wolbert (vocals, bass). In April of that year, Moorings bought a TEAC 144 four-track tape recorder and the duo moved to Amsterdam; they began to record songs using a Yamaha CS-15, Korg MS-10…