Poison the Well are back and they still know where it hurts.
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Hum of Hurt is not Converge at their most essential, but it is Converge at their most honest: still bleeding, just with better acoustics.
Only Darkthrone can collapse the past and the present into something new, haunted and vaguely undead like this.
This isn’t the album Megadeth needed, but it’s the one Dave Mustaine insisted on having, and somehow that feels like closure.
Merzbow doesn’t offer relief so much as perspective and Nocturnal Forest is what that perspective sounds like after midnight.
I don’t listen to You Are Safe From God Here to feel better, I listen to it because it understands why I don’t.
It’s fun. It’s exhausting. And if that contradiction bothers you, congratulations: you’ve finally understood tech death.
It doesn’t sound like doom and it doesn’t sound like folk; it sounds like the slow formation of something that shouldn’t exist but somehow does.
his is the record you’ll reach for when the noise of a burning world matches the noise within.
The important thing is to power through and powering through is Author & Punisher’s MO.
It sounds like a legendary rave your subconscious recorded while you were passed out on the bathroom floor.