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, [...]

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. [...]

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” 3.5/5 Entombed/Repulsion-esque death metal, slick production, endlessly heavy #howfire: 7 #nwms The Flaming Lips’ “Embryonic” 3.5/5 More noir, noisy & paranoid than Kirby’s Dreamland, suffers from being too long (18 tracks!) #nwms Propagandhi’s [...]

Behemoth’s “Evangelion” 4.5/5 Musical Lord of the Rings epic with Sauron winning. Heaviest blackened death metal cd til judgement day #nwms im going to also start ascribing a #howfire level to these #nwms records on a scale of Jane Doe (10) to #crabcore (-10) #nwms Behemoth’s #howfire score is a 6 #nwms Hatebreed’s “Perseverence” 2.5/5 [...]

today i will be listening to new to me music & tweeting quick reviews with the hashtag #nwms (for new music) hope you enjoy about 17 hours ago from mobile web first up: Unsane’s 2007 “Visqueen” #nwms about 17 hours ago from Twitterrific Unsane “Visqueen” 3/5 Loud, noisy NYC stoner post-hardcore/grunge with a chip on [...]