Weekly Roundup: May 30th
Featuring Leaving Time, The Interrupters, Goatsmoke, and more.
MOSH PITHY:
A curated selection of cool shit for you to listen to.
Conjurer – “Cracks In The Pyre”
UK metallers Conjurer will be dropping their latest LP Páthos for Nuclear Blast Records on July 1st. The quartet's latest album sample is another cerebral blast of mathcore/post-metal fusion and follows the release of their lead single “It Dwells” back in March. By all accounts, this record is going to be one super heavy, labyrinthian mindfuck, and I for one cannot wait for the experience. Watch the video for “Cracks In The Pyre” below:
Sweet Pill – Where The Heart Is
Splicing shades of pop and post-hardcore with a dedicated emo sensibility, Philly rockers Sweet Pill have managed to pull together one hell of a slick and cohesive debut record. On the triumphant Where The Heart Is, out now through Tophself Records, the quintet approach topics like breakups, disintegrating friendships, and anxious introspection with ten tracks of youthful energy and raw, autobiographical honesty. Stream the LP in full here (Bandcamp/Spotify).
Black Void – “Void”
The newest project of vocalist and frontman Lars Are Nedland, Norweigan heavy merchants Black Void essentially act as the existential dark universe counterpoint to Nedland's light side with hard rockers White Void. Opposed to the colour and flamboyance of the latter’s melodic new wave, Antithesis is a grimy melting pot of snarling punk fury and frosty black metal, rounded out by members of Borknagar, In Vain, Profane Burial, and Ihsahn. If blasphemy, aggression and nihilism sound like a good time, then this is for you. Listen to “Void” here.
The Interrupters – In The Wild
Returning to the fold with their first album in five years, Los Angeles punk rockers The Interrupters are set to release their fourth LP In The Wild on August 5th through Hellcat Records. Produced by Kevin Bivona, the new record is billed as a 14-track opus telling “a story of survival and resilience from a band that boldly rejects the easy impulses of simply repeating what’s worked before.” Stream the LP’s pre-release single here (Bandcamp/Spotify).
Leaving Time – “Slip”
With members having spent time in heavy-tinted groups like True Form and Method of Doubt, you’d be forgiven for thinking Floridian act Leaving Time were some youth crew inspired posi-hardcore ensemble. Instead, the Jacksonville quintet pull liberally from 90s alt-rock and shoegaze to form something dense, whirling, and hypnotic. There’s still a concerted sense of drive and punch on EP II, out June 3rd through Sunday Drive Records, but it’s all in service of a good crunchy riff. Listen to the EP’s lead single “Slip” here.
Morbidiety – Ravishing Impurity
There isn’t much that needs to be said about Ravishing Impurity. Look at the glorious artwork and tell me it doesn’t look heavy as shit purely on face value. Maryland's Morbideity are following up their 2021 debut Solitude In Heaven with another slab of Euro-style metalcore and death metal carnage for the good folks over at The Coming Strife. Want riffs and bloody chaos? Then look no further. Stream the five-track EP in full here (Bandcamp/Spotify).
Neck Deep – “STFU”
On their first effort without founding member and drummer Dani Washington, Wrexham pop-punkers Neck Deep are fully embracing the doom and gloom of modern life. However, you wouldn’t know it from the grinningly upbeat, late 90s vibe captured on the band’s latest single. Frontman Ben Barlow waxes sardonically about the ills of political opinions, NFTs, internet beef, and the digital obsession of late-stage capitalist consumerism. You know, totally standard pop-punk fare (minus the proclivity for dick and fart jokes). Watch the official video for “STFU” below:
Goatsmoke – What’s the Scene, Bob?
Another gift of random benevolent mercy from the algorithmic gods, Goatsmoke hail from Bengaluru, India and their debut release What’s the scene, bob? is some of the most crushing, head-bang worthy metal I’ve heard all year. Seriously, this shit absolutely rocks and is a total must-listen for fans of Eyehategod, Down, Crowbar, the NOLA sound, fuzzed-out transcendental bliss, and sledgehammer riffs that should never end. Stream the LP in full here (Bandcamp/Spotify).