by Jordeana Bell | Oct 24, 2025 | Interviews, Video
For over two decades, The Acacia Strain have channeled apocalyptic energy through an ever-evolving mix of deathcore, sludge, and existential metal. With their thirteenth studio album, You Are Safe From God Here (out now via Rise Records), the Massachusetts-based...
by Jordeana Bell | Oct 23, 2025 | Reviews
Narrowing down Sumo Cyco is a weird contractual negotiation between three things that usually don’t talk to each other on good terms: Metal, Disney pop style hooks, and Punk’s social anxiety. Not a bad thing, but the obvious contradiction makes for an epic...
by Jordeana Bell | Oct 23, 2025 | Reviews
There are bands you can joke about, and then there are bands you just don’t. The Acacia Strain belongs firmly in the second category. They’re basically a physics experiment on how much sonic weight you can drop on a human skull before it liquefies. They operate on a...
by Jordeana Bell | Oct 23, 2025 | New Music, Releases, Video
So, Dayseeker just dropped the most epic Love song about emotional necromancy ever written. Just being real: no one writes a song called “Crawl Back to My Coffin” because they’re fine. It’s not an upbeat anthem for people who still believe in dual-income...
by Jordeana Bell | Oct 10, 2025 | New Music, News
CKY just did something almost no modern band has the audacity (or algorithmic naivety) to do: they released a new single without telling anyone. “Can’t Stop Running” is their first new single since 2018, and hopefully a sign for a follow-up to 2017’s The...