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🎧 AMIENSUS Returns with New Song "FIELDS OF EMERALD FIRE"! 🎧

AMIENSUS has surprisingly dropped a digital single for their new song “Fields of Emerald Fire.” Just last year, the epic, melodic, progressive black metal group released two critically acclaimed records. Not resting on their laurels, AMIENSUS now gives fans the first of several new tracks in the works. Listen to “Fields of Emerald Fire” here or watch the streaming visualizer here. “’Fields of…

🎧 AMIENSUS Returns with New Song "FIELDS OF EMERALD FIRE"! 🎧

[thatdrummerguyindustries]

Episode 328: The Best Albums of 2019 So Far

[thatdrummerguyindustries]

Episode 320: Alien Weaponry, Aenimus, & Tora Tora

[fuckyeahmackenziescott]

“Also playing guitar, Scott emoted resonantly as she sang, raising her eyebrows and curling her lips into a snarl as if by no will of her own.”

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“Fronting a powerful yet tasteful rhythm section, Scott’s set was built around distorted fingerpicking and raw, snarled vocals.”

—Photo source, Quote #1 source, Quote #2 source

[bmichael]

This is not a decision that I’ve taken lightly. I’ve basically spent the past year waiting/hoping for the spark of musical discovery and impulse/compulsion to share to reignite, but it simply hasn’t. Know that early drafts of this post were very different and very pointed – I planned wonderful rants about commodification, listification, commercialization, devaluation, trivialization, all kinds of -ations – but while therapeutic, were not the note I wanted to go out on. Music and blogging and music blogging have been very, very good to me, but I fear that were I to keep at it that gratitude would further curdle into resentment and cynicism and this thing that I’ve built, that has defined and directed so much of my life this past decade plus and am very proud of would suffer for it.

Chromewaves.net is closing. One of the first mp3 blogs R.I.P. It's so weird. I totally remember going to Chromewaves (and Fluxblog, Said the Gramophone, GvB, and tons of others) when I was in college and out of college. I haven't really gone to any of them since Tumblr. 😩😭😩😭

[fuckyeahsviib]

Photo by Frank Yang. More here.

[worldcafe]

Free Download: "Reservoir" from Toronto pop-punk four-piece PUP

Frank Yang of the Chromewaves blog shared his favorite up-and-coming Toronto bands with us, and our series of free downloads from those bands continues today with PUP.

"They spell their name in all caps," Yang told us. "I don't know if that means you're supposed to shout it. I'm not going to."

The four-piece band - formerly called Topanga after the Boy Meets World character - is known for its energetic live shows, and recently released its self-titled album. Yang describes it as pop punk, but without the suburban mall baggage that style tends to bring.

"There's no Blink 182-ness, no sophomoric shenanigans," Yang says. "It's melodic, loud, fast, aggressive."

He says it recalls fellow Torontonians F'ed Up, where the music is extremely hard-hitting, but with enough melody "that it could cross over from the subgenre in which it might be otherwise crammed."

"It's just good rock music in a style that people may be biased against, but shouldn't be," Yang says. Download "Reservoir" below.