3TEETH - EndEx (2023)

EndEx is the Fourth 3TEETH album, still quite easy listening industrial metal, often closer to Marilyn Manson or even Static-X than to NIN (with some nu-metal elements) but this time it's better than what they did on Metawar. Is it less a guilty pleasure if we say 90' metal is now "old-school"? I don't know, and don't really care, I just enjoy listening to it...

Sister Fucker - God's Work (2010)

Sister Fucker were active in Oakland, CA, in the beginning of the 2010'. It's a duo with Vanessa Harris playing guitar and singing/screaming and Erin Allen playing drums. On their 2010 cassette God's Work they delivered some savage, raw and primitive punkish noise rock. I love it!

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Skeletal Remains - Fragments Of The Ageless (2024)

Fragments Of The Ageless is the Fifth album from Skeletal Remains. Their old school death metal (old school but with a technical twist) has always sounded Floridian, but this time it sounds more precisely very MorbidAngelic (B, C and D albums). And since it's done so well, in great songs with excellent guitarworks, who will complain? No me!

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'68 - Yes, and... (2023)

Fourth album from the duo '68, with singer guitarist Josh Scogin (ex The Chariot and Norma Jean) and drummer Nikko Yamada,Yes, and... is a nice new piece in their garage hardcore (hardcore'n'roll?) discography. Sounding likean unusual mix between At the Drive-In, The Black Keys and Nirvana. Good songs, great vocals. Recommended stuff.

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FANGE - Perdition (2024)

With Perdition, the new FANGE album, they seem to have compleated their mutation toward a sound at the same time more industrial and more polished and melodic. And whereas I really like their industrial shift, I'm not always conviced by the melodic evolution. Strangely Fange isn't really dirty anymore and sometimes they're going too much to my taste in a kind of Paradise Lost direction. I hope next album will be more abrasive. That been said the quality of their music and songwriting remains and Perdition is an excellent album anyway.

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Zopp - Dominion (2023)

Dominion has been released last year, but if you and/or your dad listened to prog rock classics like Yes or King Crimson, you will definitely feel at home listening to it. But it's not just 70' prog worship with vintage synth and a bit of sax, there are also more modern influences, and it also often reminds me of Porcupine Tree. It's the second album from Zopp (which is Ryan W Stevenson doing nearly everything, plus Andrea Moneta playing the drums and a few guest doing some vocals, sax, flute, etc.) and its main evolution from the first one is that it's not only instrumental any more. Recommended for anyone into prog rock, but also as a good way to discover it.

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Sonic Poison - Grinded Leftovers (EP 2024)

This Grinded Leftovers EP is another piece fine in Sonic Poison faultless discography. They play Repulsion style grind, but manage to do so without sounding redundant or "retro". This time they also experimented a bit with some noise parts, nothing very significant, but why not? The feel of primitive death/grind with as much impact as a grind band of today. Recommended! 

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Hyperdontia - Deranged (EP 2023)

Deranged is the latest release from Hyperdontia, four tracks of excellent and nicely old-school death metal, with a primitive feel reminding a bit the early works of Cannibal Corpse. Good stuff.

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HORSKH - BODY (2024)

BODY, the third album of HORSKH (from Besançon, East of France) confirms they are among the new industrial bands that matters. They build on old school industrial music from the nineties, with a touch of EBM, but also incorporates newer sounds like dubstep, nu metal, trap metal, resulting in a music somewhere between NIN, 3Teeth and Ghostmane. But I'd say they mostly distinguish from other bands with their strong songwriting skills, their ability to write songs at the same time catchy but also avoiding sounding as standardized as a big part of industrial metal often is.

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