I know I’m not the only one who frequently has trouble deciding what to listen to when I’m up against the clock and need to be productive. Personally, I tend to go for things that are more on the atmospheric side of the spectrum. However, its a slippery slope to

DDENT’s music is powerful, pulsating and mesmerizing, and so is their new video for their track “Kohol” off their debut LP آكتئاب, coming out Feb. 13th worldwide. This Parisian band took inspiration from Arabic psalms to make a dark sonic masterpiece; the album title translates to “melancholy” or “depression,” and the ethereal

Footpaths‘ music is like a lonesome descent. Like the slipping away of hope and the tasting on your lips of the second it leaves your grasp. From there, you feel the cold throes of no return clinging to your entire body… You get lost within the labyrinths of your own mind.

Here are some 2016 releases that are too unpopular (AKA cool) to have made any year end lists, but which deserve every ounce of attention and love they can get. This is criminally overlooked stuff that everyone should get into right now. Read this as a best of 2016 list for

Darkness is my favorite form of heavy. The eerie calm this album invokes is more powerful than if it had been slathered in squealing distortion and coated in anguished growls. I have said it before, and after spending the bulk of my days sorting through albums full of gnashing fangs

Photos: Ali En & Milton Stille OM, with Daniel Higgs – November 19th, 2016 at The Rickshaw, Vancouver BC Two band shows have always been kind of odd to me, especially in the absence of an art show. That said, it’s pretty difficult to argue with OM – even if it might not