today i will be listening to new to me music & tweeting quick reviews with the hashtag #nwms (for new music) hope you enjoy

M83 “Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts” 3.5/5 A synth heavy spacewalk that soars more often than bores. Mars rover as drum machine #nwms

Om “Pilgrimage” 3/5 Transcendental stoner metal, meditation on unison of the Godhead & the tonic via bass, drum & droning vocal #nwms

Electric Wizard “Dopethrone” 4/5 Fantastic voyage on a magic carpet to the gates of Hell only to discover the Devil is high as a kite #nwms

Harvey Milk “My Love Is Higher Than Your Assessment of What My Love Could Be” 4/5 Pre-emo sad bastard at the bottom of a glass #nwms

Ra Ra Riot “The Orchard” 4/5 Sound of zipping up your jacket & breathing deep the brisk air. Scent of a tended fire. Fine, fall music. #nwms

Neurosis’ “Times of Grace” 4.5/5 Loneliest sea battle of man vs. God ever, an atheistic Jonah in crashing chords #nwms

The Flaming Lips’ “Embryonic” 3.5/5 More noir, noisy & paranoid than Kirby’s Dreamland, but suffers from being too long (18 tracks!) #nwms

Sunn O)))’s “Monoliths & Dimensions 4/5 Druid music enveloped in fog & pre-dawn light. Heavy & bowel shakingly sub-bass low #nwms

Mammoth Grinder “Extinction of Humanity” 4/5 A veritable greatest hits of death metal & early grind. Napalm Death, Autopsy & Discharge #nwms

Clinging To The Trees Of A Forest Fire “Songs of Ill Hope & Desperation” 4/5 When you can’t Liberate Te Ex Inferus #nwms

Kvelertak s/t 4/5 Norweigan black’n'roll that is less Nachtmystium & more Baroness. Who knew such fun could be had in corpse paint? #nwms

Lightning Swords of Death “The Extra Dimensional Wound” 1.5/5 Should have been called The Extra Forgettable Songs instead #nwms

Ion Dissonance “Cursed” 3.5/5 Currently occupying the space between Infinity & Nothing. Plenty to bob the head about. #nwms

Norma Jean “Meridional” 4/5 NJ has moved into the “heavy” territory that Thrice abandoned post-Vheissu #nwms

High On Fire’s “Blessed Black Wings” 4/5 Crazy Train + H&H Sabbath with manic vocals that fully embrace the melodic Dies Irae #nwms

is listening & enjoying an old TX hardcore band Big Boys for (nearly) the last hour #nwms

Big Boys’ “Fat Elvis” 4.5/5 31 song comp of three LPs, Bad Brains – Bob Marley + Funkadelic, new fav. early hardcore band #nwms

thinks he may have heard the first hardcore “breakdown” ever in Black Flag’s “My War” from the 1982 demo #nwms

Black Flag’s “1982 Demo” 4.5/5 All the aggression of the first EPs no BS noodling, perfect line-up, songs & intensity FAV HXC album #nwms

Fight Amp’s “Manners & Praise” 3.5/5 Young Widows if kept Breather Resist moniker – Jesus Lizard + Shellac #howfire: 3 #nwms

Iron Age’s “The Sleeping Eye” 3.5/5 “Dress as your favorite centurion” themed thrash party that degenerates to fantasy drinking games #nwms

Kylesa’s “Static Tensions” 3/5 Nate Newton fronts Baroness playing Old Man Gloom covers. Crusty sludge rock #nwms

Pissed Jeans’ “Hope for Man” 4/5 Disgorging noise punk, dirtiest stripper bar band in PA, vocals akin to David Yow #nwms

Rollins Band’s “End of Silence” 4.5/5 Being punched in the head while staring at Henry’s four black bars bc he has you in a head lock #nwms

Unsane “Visqueen” 3/5 Loud, noisy NYC stoner post-hardcore/grunge with a chip on its shoulder. Heavy, groovy, great angry music #nwms

Nile’s “Those Whom The Gods Detest” 4/5 Wow, epic ancient egyptian fantasy death metal? Yes! Arabic singing? YES! Crazy leads? YES!!! #nwms

Agoraphobic Nosebleed’s “Agorapocalypse” 4/5 Excellent varied grindcore full of devastatingly heavy vocals, riffs, speed & breakdowns #nwms

Flipper’s “American Grafishy” 3.5/5 Rick Rubin produced rock record with teeth, sounds a bit like F* Up listened to this b4 Chemistry #nwms

Gojira’s “From Mars to Sirius” 5/5 Like sibling Mastodon, G’s heavy, melodic, devastatingly beautiful. Diverse vox heard in awhile #nwms

Behemoth’s “Evangelion” 4.5/5 Musical Lord of the Rings epic with Sauron winning. Heaviest blackened death metal cd til judgement day #nwms

Hatebreed’s “Perseverence” 2.5/5 Middle of the road mosh, sounds like most NY hardcore #nwms

Lamb of God’s “New American Gospel” 2.5/5 LoG paved modern metalcore highway but not down with vox. Brutal as Rambo #nwms

In Flames’ “Clayman” 4/5 Swedish melodic death metal, beginning of “gothenburg” sound #nwms

Lamb of God + In Flames = Killswitch Engage (& the rest of the melodic metalcore 2001 scene) #nwms

Nachtmystium’s “Assassins…” 4.5/5 Incredibly diverse black/death/prog metal with riffs! & choruses! & guitar solos! wee!!! #nwms

Big Business’ “Here Comes the Waterworks” 3/5 Buzz Osbourne’s (Melvins) & Troy Sanders’ (Mastodon) lovechild play Sabbath covers #nwms

Marduk’s “Wormwood” 1.5/5 Couldn’t finish. It’s too kvlt maybe. Trvly boring. Gruesome vox though. #nwms

Church of Misery’s “Houses of the Unholy” 3.5/5 Rockin’ 7 min blues-based hardcore. makes me wanna bleach my tips #nwms

Jucifer’s “L’Autrichienne” 4/5 The soundtrack to Terminator starring Clint Eastwood directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky. In a word: Trippy #nwms

Daath’s “The Concealers” 3/5 Entombed/Repulsion-esque death metal, slick production, endlessly heavy if not a tad repetitive #nwms

Propagandhi’s “Supporting Caste” 4/5 All over the map, fast “emo” rock with hints of Bad Religion & Thrice. Really good #nwms

Polar Bear Club’s “Chasing Hamburg” 2/5 Poppy emo-rock, just cause you play Am Tele’s thru Oranges don’t make your songs good #nwms

Goatwhore’s “Carving Out…” 2/5 Black/death metal with crust & doom influence. Exciting start, asleep by end #nwms

Thursday’s “Common Existence” They get better with every record, melodic hardcore that pops, Rickley’s vox are spot on too #nwms

At the Gates “Slaughter of the Soul” 4/5 Beginning of melodic death metal, tasteful use of keyboards, riffs on fire, classic #nwms

Blut Aus Nord’s “Memoria Vetusta II” 4/5 Chilling & epically prog black metal. Solos smooth as ice on frozen duck’s back, if this is hipster metal give me more #nwms