New Particles hand-snatched from the tube of the Large Genre Collider for the week ending 2015-12-11. This is what I am listening to in the universe where I have time to listen to all of this and still everything else.
| 1 |
BNLX |
"Flextime" |
Flextime (Bnlx EP #9) |
This was the week I suddenly and way-belatedly discovered that Ed Ackerson of Polara has been in a new band called BNLX for years. |
| 2 |
Avantasia |
"Mystery of a Blood Red Rose" |
single |
Avantasia is what it's like to eat a giant slice of meat loaf without taking the aluminum foil off first. |
| 3 |
A Sunny Day In Glasgow |
"Shut Your Mouth, It's Christmas" |
New Christmas Classics 5 |
If Low's Christmas EP was too earnest for you, A Sunny Day In Glasgow have an alterative. |
| 4 |
White Sea |
"Gangster No. 1" |
single |
Give me a few more bands like White Sea and I will declare Astral Soul's independence from Indie R&B. |
| 5 |
Dry the River |
"Coast" |
Hooves of Doubt 5 |
Dry the River could be part of it, too. |
| 6 |
Raventale |
"Destroying the Seeds of Karma" |
Dark Substance of Dharma |
Raventale make gothic symphonic black metal. |
| 7 |
Cappa |
"Goddess" |
single |
This is the part of the year when people indignantly demand to know what the hell "metropopolis" is, and this song by Cappa is some of it. |
| 8 |
Grabbitz |
"Better With Time" |
Better With Time |
Grabbitz is kind of metrostep. |
| 9 |
Bloodiest |
"Suffer" |
single |
If Black Sabbath started over today, they might sound like Bloodiest. |
| 10 |
Vessels |
"Vertical" |
Dilate |
Vessels do deep indietronic post-focus music. |
| 11 |
The American Dollar |
"Mosaic" |
Across the Oceans |
The American Dollar do it more post-, less -tronic. |
| 12 |
Farewell Dear Ghost |
"We Were Wild Once" |
single |
Farewell Dear Ghost make soft-spoken, soft-shoed stomp-and-holler. |
| 13 |
Lithium Dawn |
"Tearing Back the Veil" |
Tearing Back the Veil I: Ascension |
Of course there is progressive djentcore, what else would a band called Lithium Dawn be? |
| 14 |
Hnd |
"Tähetolmus" |
single |
In Estonia, even a "pop-rock" band like HND sounds a little folk-metal. |
| 15 |
Michael Maas |
"Submersive" |
Earth |
Epicore is movie music that dispenses with the constraint of having a movie attached, although if Michael Maas makes a movie to go with this new album, I'd watch it. |
| 16 |
Said |
"hi-lite" |
Blue 6 |
There are too many artists called Said, but one of them is a great J-rock band, and I don't know anything else about them because you their EP is just called "Blue" and you try googling that . |
| 17 |
Dimension |
"Dark Lights" |
Dark Lights / Panzer 2 |
Dimension could use a better name for their dark uplifting trancestep, too. |
| 18 |
Sara |
"Tyhmä pieni elämä" |
Tyhmä pieni elämä +3 |
Finnish electro-rock band Sara have been recording since 1999, so I guess I should stop complaining about names. |
| 19 |
Chelsea Grin |
"Skin Deep" |
single |
Chelsea Grin do brutal symphonic technical headcrushcore. |
| 20 |
Graveshadow |
"Namesake" |
Nocturnal Resurrection |
Graveshadow do beauty-and-the-beast mixed-vocal gothic symphonic metal. |
| 21 |
Escalane |
"Waiting for the Sun" |
The Days of Decay |
Escalane swap the symphonic middle of gothic symphonic metal out for some pop-punk surge. |
| 22 |
Cam |
"Untamed" |
Untamed |
And Camaron Marvel Ochs is a perfectly tremendous name for what happened when a freak nuclear accident during the recording sessions for the Jewel/Dolly Parton duet resulted in them fusing into one, so if we all pretend she didn't decide to go by just Cam, maybe she won't. |
