by Jordeana Bell | Dec 12, 2025 | Reviews
Fair warning, this is the most beautiful Christmas album you will hear while simultaneously being sonically disemboweled. There’s a particular kind of person who claims, usually on the internet, usually in all lowercase, that Christmas music is “objectively bad.” This...
by Jordeana Bell | Dec 11, 2025 | Releases, Reviews
Understanding Volumes requires a working theory of Los Angeles, not the promotional brochure version, but the one locals accidentally describe when they’re stressed. This is the L.A. where rehearsal spaces are wedged between vape shops and dental offices, where the...
by Jordeana Bell | Nov 28, 2025 | Reviews
I should begin with a confession: I am, by all measurable standards, a closet stoner. Not the slack-jawed stereotype who lives inside of a Bob Marley poster, and not the cardigan-wearing medical user with laminated documentation explaining that indica helps their...
by Emily Schneider | Nov 24, 2025 | Photos, Reviews
Melodeath is one of my favorite metal subgenres, both to listen to and to see live. So when Omnium Gatherum announced a North American tour to start just after the release of their new album, May the Bridges We Burn Light the Way, alongside Aether Realm and...
by Jordeana Bell | Nov 21, 2025 | Reviews
So, there’s paying homage to the greats (which I get), but then there’s what Jimmie Hong is doing. In a musical landscape where “influence” usually means “we listened to Master of Puppets once,” Hong is quietly pulling off something...
by Jordeana Bell | Nov 14, 2025 | Reviews
I’ve been waiting for this Lamp of Murmuur album the way a cursed romantic waits for a letter that will never arrive. Not patiently—no one in metal is patient—but with the neurotic anticipation of someone who’s certain the universe is withholding something...