When creativity, passion and modern production tools meet to make the perfect storm. Sybilanta is a fictitious modern artist, presented to you by way of a rather sensational EP of original songs.
Hard Rock
“A Buddhist monk from Japan sets out on a seemingly endless search for perfect stillness and peace. He eventually encounters an old hermit in a dark and cramped cave, an extraordinary being, and requests the secret to the permanent silence of his mental faculties. The hermit laughs, and replies that he has never had a silent mind, not in over 100 years.”
Sensational new music from alt-metal band A Million Little Fires hits this season in the form of a highly-anticipated full-length album. Violent Halos is as conceptually profound and gritty as its title and artwork suggest, and the opening track alone sets the bar exceedingly high.
An essential twist of authenticity and original charm, a modern take on alternative rock and grunge, from a band with a clear style and sound of their own right now. Dead Heroes actively counter the rise of regurgitated fake music, with an intense and impressively original debut, for Witch Doctor.
Superb tone, heavy rock smoothly captured – a new metal take with a twist of grunge, indie, post-punk. Jessica (Fucking) James gifts iconic vocals, to the infectious and timeless alt-metal anthem No Such Thing.
Stylistically, Friendship Commanders have their own thing going on entirely here. The songwriting, for me, tips its hat to the likes of Pearl Jam, for its depth and reflection, its meandering melodies – that meeting of the unpredictable and the satisfying. Again though, there’s something clearly their own about these lyrics, and the way they’re performed.
“One of my favorite authors, GK Chesterton, once said something along the lines that a bad book will tell you something about the author, but a good book will tell you something about yourself.”
A song for the people, World War Infinity reacts to the authoritarianism that threatens our freedom, and reflects upon the ongoing destruction of progress – the ruling class’s greed and thirst for power. It’s a song of despair, but it’s rooted in hope, and that positive angle is ultimately what resounds, as we roll through these hugely impassioned moments of all-together-now chorus.
From an explosive new album, an intoxicating and fierce fusion of electronic pulsating rhythms and heavy metal layers of synth and guitar – German creative act Nordstahl reaches peak musical appeal, with the boldly intense and unignorably catchy anthem Ragnarök in Berlin.
It’s an exciting, dark and engaging listen, and every time those quiet moments take hold, the wait for the drop is immense, and the hook ultimately pierces through with a perfectly captured vibrancy and passion.
Featuring the perfect balance of slick, distorted riffs, high energy, the roar and melody combined to create pure impact, BLOOD DRIPS leads with an hypnotic level of rising anticipation, following whispered, grunge-like vocals through tuneful verses, towards the full rock explosion of an instrumental drop.
Intensely heavy yet soulful, poetic and cinematic, up-tempo and both energising and evocative. Oathforged is a confronting and awakening listen, and offers a whole new highlight from the upcoming full-length album. Mythrend have made sincere promises to raise the bar, and so far, they’re outright refusing to back down on their word.