NUR "Negative Transfer" EP streaming

Super heavy blackened sludge-core from this Haifa, Israel based band named NUR.

I like it this shit!

https://www.instagram.com/nurband04/

Why nowadays lots of so labelled modern/crossover/alt metal bands have females fronting them?

Not being sexist here at all but this question came up in my overthinking-mind many times over the recent years. I'm aware there's definitely kind of a trend going and lots great bands, the likes of Jinjer, Spiritbox, Skynd come to mind (to name but a random few), which are now staples of modern metal scene, and get featured on bills of major festivals worldwide, and many more outifits are popping up on a regular basis, but that's about it?

Is this just another outcome of pandora's box, being opened by the gothic/symphonic metal of mid 90's early 00's, and leading female vocalists to be more and more under the spotlight than in the previous decades of metal history?

Is metal becoming more inclusive?

Photo: Tatiana Shmailyuk of JINJER

Now streaming Italian thrashers HYDRA

https://hydraita.bandcamp.com/

AIVOLAVISTYS "Oma illuusio" full album streaming

Raw Punk Hardcore sung in their motherlanguage makes this record kinda exotic and punk as fuck. Uh!

"Läpi aidoista" opens up with some middle Eastern flavoured music and so the bass riff for the following one "Massahysteria" -kinda something going on with lots of bands from Finland, now I'm thinking of Amorphis.

"Oma illuusio" is the new record from Finland's AIVOLÄVISTYS.

Check'em out!

https://aivolavistysband.bandcamp.com/album/oma-illuusio

PENDEJO SS from Israel "the end of the begining" - full album streaming

Primal grindcore punk from Israel's PENDEJO SS.

Check this out and support!

https://pendejoss.bandcamp.com/album/the-end-of-the-beginning

Now streaming VVORSE new song "Kenen valta?"

Hardcore crust VVORSE, from Finland and around since 2014, have a new album titled "Kurjien elegia" (traslated in elegy of miserables) out by end of this month.

Metallic HM2-buzzsaw driven hardcore punk sounding a lot like a modern take on early 90's Scandinavian deathmetal forged at famed Sunlight studios.

Stream now the opening track "Kenen valta?" while waiting to listen to the record in full.

Enjoy!

https://vvorse.bandcamp.com/album/kurjien-elegia

LEPROSYS - Cryonic (Official Video)

LEPROSYS, futurist shi-fi themed old school death metal from Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada.
Watch the clip for the song "Cryonic" off their upcoming new album and read our comments if you look for some hints on how this band does sound.
You can start streaming the entire record "Obnoxious Futuristic Vision" on their bandcamp too -link below.

Enjoy!

https://leprosysherb.bandcamp.com/album/obnoxious-futuristic-vision

FERAL - The Great Reset

Check out these grinders from France.
FERAL, after six years, is gonna release a new record entitled "Spiritual Void".

Enjoy the new song "The Great Reset"!

https://www.facebook.com/FERALisFERAL

NORÐ - Fear Reigns (Official Lyric Video)

Denmark's fivesome NORÐ, delivers the official lyrics video for the single "Fear Reigns" taken off the upcoming new album "Machine Blood" scheduled to be out in March 2022 through Inverse records.

This lenthy track, it clocks in over 5+ min, is all about modern heavy rock metal with thrashy groovy riffs, epic rockish vocals alternated to brutal hardcore screams and cleans, and a proggy feel in the inrterludes and some arrangements that may remind of Dream Theater although the hiper-tech-wizardy of famed American prog metallers is not matched (and here there's really nothing strange or wrong considering when it comes to Nord we're not talking about a progressive metal band or "classic" prog metal genre tout court).

Enjoy!

https://www.facebook.com/nordmetal

Now streaming Umeå hardcore's STEP FORWARD (1989-90 demos)

Umeå has been a hot bed for everything punk and hardcore with its "mainstream" popularity spike reached around mid ninethies with melo-skate-punk wave branded Burning Hearts records, and thanks to Refused's post hardcore take on punk to come.
Among punk hardcore sub-genres, Umeå can boast one of the first straight edge hardcore bands, together with Abhinanda, their name? STEP FORWARD -one of their band members formed Refused after the band called it a day.

Check out this comp up @ Resist records bandcamp eaturing their demos released in the period 1989/90.

Enjoy!

https://refuserecords.bandcamp.com/album/demos-1989-1990-lp

Deathgaze's VAZUM - Gallows video

A single from this Detroid based duo-band named VAZUM.

I was waiting for the distorted guitars to blow everything at some point of 5+ min track yet they remain mellow and as shoegezy as possible throughout the song -I guess I've been listening to too much shoegaze influenced black metal in the recent years.
A dark sultry tune for the fans of dreamy atmospheres shoegaze delivers.

Check'em out!

https://vazum.bandcamp.com/