Combichrist

“I’m so sick of unicorns,” says Combichrist’s Andy LaPlegua about the song “Fuck Unicorns” from their new album We Love You (Out Of Line [EU]/Metropolis Records [US]). “They went from being something ironic and ridiculous, to an overexposed hipster icon. Fuck unicorns!” In some ways, the peaceful and gentle unicorn can be seen as the…

Wednesday 13

A grimly glamorous ghoul who first slithered from the cobwebbed shadows of Charlotte, North Carolina, in the early 90s, Wednesday 13 has firmly established himself as the world’s premier purveyor of balls-out horror punk insanity. With a vivid and vile imagination that has endeared him to countless fans of riff-driven macabre over the last two…

Night Club

Prison

Prison is a harsh, metallic nightmare comprised of the very thoughts most people fight to suppress. The issues that are too taboo to talk about publicly are mere stepping stones for this band. Disarming honesty and punishing precision are the main ingredients in this low-end remedy for whatever ails you. Brewing in the depths of…

Darkbloom

Death Valley High

Crafting the perfect soundtrack to a romp in the dark, Northern California’s Death Valley High artfully merges traditional goth magic and modern alternative majesty, co-mingling cinematic rock, new wave, and dance music on their 2016 full-length CVLT [AS FVK] (minusHEAD Records). Now, the boys always incorporated a gothic sensibility, but they fully embrace it on…