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Review MORTEM “Mørkelid”
Mortem is one of the pioneering bands of the Norwegian black metal scene. Formed in Oslo in 1987, the band released its Slow Death demo in 1989. Driven by Marius Vold and Steinar “Sverd” Johnsen, the demo was produced by none other than Euronymous and Dead of Mayhem. Shortly after its release, however, Mortem was laid to… Continue Reading → -
SPIDERBAIT Announce Local Supports
Iconic local rockers Spiderbait embark on their national Ivy & the Big Apples 30th Anniversary Tour this weekend, kicking off with anticipated back-to-back nights at Brisbane’s The Tivoli on Saturday and Sunday. The trio then heads through Perth, Melbourne, Adelaide, Canberra, Sydney and Newcastle, plus regional stops in Shoal Bay, Bateau Bay and Miranda. Remaining […] -
Settling Scores Through Music With ADAM DE MICCO From LORNA SHORE
The meteoric rise of New Jersey deathcore titans Lorna Shore stands as one of the most remarkable modern success stories in heavy music. At the centre of this sonic storm is lead guitarist and primary songwriter Adam De Micco. Since co-founding the band in 2009, De Micco has steered the group through seismic lineup changes, […] -
John Carpenter Releases “The Ferryman” From His Upcoming Metal-Themed New Album “Cathedral”
That album will be accompanied by an upcoming graphic novel.
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HELD. Launch ‘Negative Of Nurture’ Short Film, First-Ever UK Tour Set For November
The band’s lineup includes members of The Sleeping & Coheed And Cambria.
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REZN Streaming New Song “Aerial Birth”
Dream on.
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YUNGBLUD’s Emotional Statement On ‘Industry Plant’ Allegations Draws Support From Anthrax & Exodus Members
“The amount of hate and disbelief around me from strangers on the internet or bitter musicians really weighs on my heart…”
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Buenos Aires Dark Synth Duo Balvanera Tear it Up in Video for “Degaste” — New Album “Hasta tocar el fondo vacío del lenguaje” Announced!
With Desgaste, Buenos Aires dark synth duo Balvanera do exactly what the title threatens: they wear the surface down until the machinery underneath starts showing its teeth. The word suggests erosion, attrition, the slow damage of friction over time, but in the hands of Agustina Vizcarra and Lucas Palavecino, it becomes something more immediate and violent: not decay as atmosphere, but decay as impact—rubbed raw by sound, and the body’s own refusal to stay still.
Balvanera’s corrosive new single Desgaste heralds their forthcoming album, Hasta tocar el fondo vacío del lenguaje (Until Touching the Empty Bottom of Language), a title borrowed from a fragment of Argentine author Arturo Carrera’s poem Escrito con un nictógrafo (Written with a Nyctograph). The phrase opens a trapdoor into the record’s nocturnal sensibility, evoking the thoughts and images that only surface in sleepless hours or dreams, when they arrive with their sharpest, most revealing edge. Sung entirely in Spanish, the album becomes both a declaration of identity and a study in language as sound, shape, and inheritance. Balvanera take Spanish’s baroque potential and pare it back into something starker and more severe, preserving its richness while making every phrase feel deliberate, exposed, and unmistakably their own. Following Carrera’s lead, they explore death as something hidden inside language itself, with bereavement running beneath the record like a black current. Still, the music never sinks into mourning. The duo’s familiar nervous tension persists as a vivid pulse, shapeshifting between minimal synth austerity, club-driven force, and an unsettling dream atmosphere.
Desgaste is the immediate jolt, a fast, fevered Spanish-language chant that throws the sounds of Boy Harsher, BOAN, Nox Novacula, and Kontravoid into a blender and blasts them into oblivion. The beat runs hot, the vocals come clipped and commanding, and the whole track has that wonderful sensation of discipline beginning to crack under pressure. It feels made for people who dance as if trying to shake a thought loose before it becomes permanent.
The video’s stop-motion collage pushes the album’s madness into a junk-drawer hallucination of nature footage, glitching machines, educational TV fragments, Saturday-morning cartoon energy, and the deranged innocence of You On Kazoo. It is funny, ugly, fast, and oddly perfect: a children’s broadcast from the end of thought.
Watch the video for Desgaste below:
Balvanera have spent years moving through minimal synth, wave, and EBM until the old categories began to look too polite for what they were actually doing. On this record, they go straight for the nerve without flattening the language around it. The songs are lean, hard, and hungry, but they keep a strange literary pressure in the walls. The album worries over death hidden inside speech, grief tucked between words, and the awful possibility that language may be the prettiest coffin anyone ever built. Still, the record never collapses into solemn theater. It moves. It jerks. It sweats cheap electricity. It wants bodies in the room.
Hasta tocar el fondo vacío del lenguaje (Until Touching the Empty Bottom of Language) is out October 1st, 2026, via DKA Records (US) and Avant! Records (EU/UK). Pre-order here.
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