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Unranked Personal Favorite Releases From 2025

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  Abjectum - Demo CD (indie) ACCESSTOGOD - Sharper Than a Blade CD (indie) Acid Mass - Violent End EP 7" (indie?) Artificial Go - Musical Chairs CD/LP (Feel It Records) Brianna Kelly - Cloud of Nothingness CD (indie) Carriers - Every Time I Feel Afraid CD/LP/CS (Brassland) Citric Dummies - Split With Turnstile LP (Feel It Records) Coast Off - Run Like Hell CD (indie) Deadguy - Near-Death Travel Services LP (Relapse) Debris (Columbus) - War Language tape (Flowerpot) D. McCartney - For Those Not Here EP (digital - indie) Eatt - Gov't Cheese EP tape (indie) Emanating Peace - s/t EP CD Evoken - Mendacium LP (20 Buck Spin) Faithxtractor - Loathing and the Noose LP (Redefining Darkness Records) Finished Basements - TIFF 24-bit Digital Transfer (indie) Forced Starvation - s/t LP (RSR) Good Flying Birds - Talulah's Tape LP/CD/CS (Carpark) Gremlin - (digital singles) Grief Counseling - s/t LP (indie) Hotline TNT - Raspberry Moon (Third Man) Internal Bleeding - Settle All Scores CS/...

2024 BEST OF LIST!!!!!

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Been doing worse than last year, physically, so this is what I can manage:   2024 FAVORITE album: Starflyer 59 - Lust for Gold   2024 "OBJECTIVELY" BEST album: Cindy Lee - Diamond Jubilee (double-album)   2024 OVERALL BEST METAL album: Choir (Singapore) - Smithe Thee Smoldering Providence   2024 BEST CRUST PUNK album: Lifeless Dark - Forces of Nature's Transformation LP/tape   2024 BEST THRASH METAL album: Acid Mass - Worship LP/CD/tape   2024 BEST BLACK METAL album: Oranssi Pazuzu - Muuntautuja LP   2024 BEST CINCY/NKY album: Wussy - Cincinnati Ohio LP   2024 BEST SHOEGAZE album that wasn't by Starflyer 59: Sungaze - Sungaze LP   2024 BEST POWERVIOLENCE album: Suppression - Spiritual Sepsis LP   2024 BEST GRINDCORE release: Sulfuric Cautery/Meatus - split EP   2024 BEST "WEIRD PUNK" album: Peer Pressure Zombies - Screen on the Green LP   2024 BEST PSYCH ROCK album: Mdou Moctar - Funeral for Justice LP   2024 BE...

Former Vocalist of Apartment 213 Now Making Christian Power Electronics With Dwid of Integrity/Psywarfare

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Only one track is up now, but a full-length is being worked on.  Steve overcame cancer at some point... I think semi-recently??  And he has a "skogging" company, which makes longboards for, well... "skogging."  Which is a combination of skating and jogging.  He says it helped him get in better shape.   https://meketapowerelectronics.bandcamp.com/track/do-not-deny    

NEW SUPPRESSION ALBUM STREAMING ON DECIBEL'S SITE

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It's 24 songs in 17 minutes.   Enjoy! Here's the link to hear it: https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2024/05/01/album-premiere-suppression-spiritual-sepsis/ Here's the link to pre-order it: https://tolivealie.com/store/index.php?main_page=advanced_search_result&keyword=Suppression+-+Spiritual+Sepsis&search_in_description=1&categories_id=&manufacturers_id=&pfrom=&pto=&dfrom=&dto=&x=0&y=0 

NEW PG.99 MATERIAL BEING WORKED ON NOW - HEAR IT STRAIGHT FROM THE HORSE'S MOUTH

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Mike was on this podcast: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7gi0p7mI4KMFX8JOdZO01h?si=e886bc6b4d8e4ad1     

NEW FORCES Label is Relocating and Running a Sale

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Bandcamp < noreply@bandcamp.com >  New Forces New Forces HQ is relocating this spring and we’re running a short sale over at the other New Forces webstore to clear up some space before the move. Sale will run until Friday night. Use code “NEWFORCES24” at checkout on the webstore to get 20% off orders of at least $30. Lots of distro items are down to the last copy. newforces (dot) bigcartel (dot) com 11:54 AM 4/30

GILEAH TAYLOR Release New Album, "Slow Parade" April 26th

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Gileah Taylor's 'Slow Parade' is out today   xxxxxx North Florida indie-folk songwriter  Gileah Taylor ’s new chamber-pop album  Slow Parade  (out Apr. 26 via  Velvet Blue Music ). It's an autobiographical concept album about life’s journey from idealized childhoods to choosing happiness as an adult. Gileah is a songwriter at the top of her game as piano and guitars join lush orchestral strings in this album exploring dichotomies of depression and hope—all through a filter of family, romance and the secrets that the moon and the sun hold. It’s a record about embracing change, and growing into a better version of yourself. Gileah (pronounced GIL-ee-uh) has opened for Over the Rhine, played festival stages with Jeff Tweedy and Roseanne Cash, and has been a live guest on NPR’s Echoes. You can hear her song "Going Home" in the Netflix original series  13 Reasons Why . Her new record  Slow Parade  was produced by Nashville broth...

New Track From Upcoming Luxury Album

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Bandcamp < noreply@bandcamp.com >   Luxury just released The Necklace (Make A Gesture, Start A Fight) , check it out here . “Here is the fourth single, "The Necklace" from our new record Like Unto Lambs. The full record will be released digitally in May. Hope you enjoy.” Fri, Apr 26, 5:14 PM

New WOUNDED PAW (Ohio/Ontario) Album of Straightedge Hardcore Punk/Powerviolence

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Bandcamp < noreply@bandcamp.com > Greetings tim, Wounded Paw just released Noise, Death & Chaos , check it out here .   Fri, Apr 26, 10:47 PM

New album released by Catholic black metal band, REVERORUM IB MALACHT

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New release from Malacht Unlimited Bandcamp < noreply@bandcamp.com > Greetings tim, Malacht Unlimited just released Aya Shi Karahn by  Reverorum ib Malacht , check it out here . Sat, Apr 27, 4:23 PM