(Here is Daniel Barkasi’s review of a new album by the Icelandic black metal band Forsmán that will be released on June 26th via Vesperian through Metal Blade Records worldwide.) To any black metal connoisseur not living in a cave – if you are, we get it, the aesthetic makes sense – the Icelandic scene […]
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Two Shell! So confusing! Last week, the pranksterish London dance duo announced their upcoming album Infinity Now, which has some truly ugly-beautiful Y2K-ass cover art. They’d already released a bunch of singles earlier in the year, and they added the giddy, ultra-catchy “Thing About You” to the rollout. That all makes sense. Except now Two Shell have released an out-of-nowhere EP called Infinite Now+, which has a title that looks like a mysterious new streaming app that would suddenly appear on my Roku homescreen overnight, and it’s got five tracks that aren’t on the album.
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– June 25th, 2026 –
“White Noise” Video/Single Now Streaming + Pre-Orders Available
Watch/stream GRADIENCE’s “White Noise” HERE
GRADIENCE will unleash their Anomaly full-length on September 4th via Metal Blade Records!
Photo by Christoffer Rosenfeldt
On the debut LP from this shrewdly named Danish duo, the usually clear-cut boundary between apocalyptic, sludgy blackened death metal and dark urban trap-rap is thrillingly pulverized. Lines of musical convention are further blurred by disarmingly emotive and intimate vocal lines, and a vibrant sound picture heaving with glacial synths and hypnotic sonic details. At first, it might daunt and confuse those who like their boundaries clear-cut, but at the heart of GRADIENCE‘s brash and radical new sound is an authentic and heartwarming new friendship. In 2022, guitarist Jakob Lærke Harris and vocalist Gavin Mistry struck up an immediate creative rapport at a Copenhagen show for local deathcore heroes Cabal. Although from very different backgrounds – Harris a visual artist and musician playing in “a popcore band,” Mistry is a main player “in different hip-hop constellations” – they quickly found common ground in an area both were keen to explore.
Both men spent years working in various artistic collaborations, but GRADIENCE audibly generates real “planets aligning” energy. The tension and turbulence of Harris’ extreme metal growl finds counterintuitive new context alongside Mistry’s fierce rhythms and rhymes, further enlivened by the spontaneous crackle to the performances – not least drummer Frederik Kjelstrup Hansen’s and bassist Patrick Petersen’s hammering rhythm section. Also evident is an exploratory zeal and playful curiosity that dovetailed organically for both parties: “When we began writing together, we suddenly found songwriting to be straightforward,” says Jakob. “We knew from the get-go we wanted to write metal and do something completely new that we hadn’t heard before and at the same time write music we felt we needed to hear. That was our only goal and focus: writing music for ourselves.”
Although musically GRADIENCE is a beautifully balanced partnership, Mistry handles all lyrics, and song titles like “Vermin,” “Agony,” “Blame Me,” and “Deathwish” attest to the bleak darkness seething beneath the choice rhymes and voluble flow. “Lyrically, I tend to write from my own experiences and emotions,” Mistry affirms. “As an immigrant in Denmark, I have lived and received my fair share of pushback and challenges. From a young age, I have practiced writing about my thoughts and feelings – either as poetry or diary entries. It’s been a way for me to cope with the feeling of being alone and misunderstood – pretty much all my teen years. The album’s lyrical themes can be experienced as me reflecting on past, present and future truths and/or lies that have been important for me to deal with.”
“‘White Noise’ is one of our more experimental and unpredictable tracks on the album,” Mistry notes of their latest single. “The lyrics also reflect that same unpredictability; that I can find myself being confrontational and extroverted, but at the same time need solitude to cope with everything. The spoken word at the end is me reflecting on that introverted side of myself.“
Watch GRADIENCE‘s “White Noise” video HERE
Watch GRADIENCE‘s previously released video for “Deathwish” HERE and “Master To The Slave” HERE
Anomaly will be released on CD, LP and digital formats.
Find pre-orders at: metalblade.com/gradience
Anomaly Track Listing:
01. Vermin
02. Blame Me
03. Agony
04. Master to the Slave
05. Stains
06. Deathwish
07. Slow
08. Undone
09. A Witness
10. White Noise
11. Grimey Potential
GRADIENCE:
Gavin Mistry – vocals
Jakob Lærke Harris – guitars, vocals
Frederik Kjelstrup Hansen – drums
Patrick Petersen – bass
Photo by Christoffer Rosenfeldt
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While I can’t condone the AI slop gracing the cover of Agarwaen’s latest and third album, the crazed look and scarred five-head of the Pennywise-wannabe does work towards getting across the point these purveyors of “asylum metal” are trying to make. Formed 20 years ago in city of Kouvola, located in the interior of southeastern Finland, the band’s mandate from the start was to present a musical manifestation of psychiatric hospital horrors and blood-soaked thriller flicks. To wit, their live show makes liberal use of costumes and props, their image and art teem with slashing both psychological and physical, with their “asylum metal” self-description sounding like spastic blackened Scandinavian folk metal after discovering Carnival in Coal and Mr. Bungle. Today, we invite you to take the padlocks off the loony bin for an hour or so and spin a stream of the band’s latest message from the Level Three Lockdown, The Murder Trend. The album is set for release on July 3rd via Over the Border Records and was mastered by the Grammy–winning, Svante Forsbäck and produced by Emma Award winner, Teemu Aalto.
Says the band about their newest work: “The Murder Trend is a full-scale concept album that descends into abuse, trauma, revenge and inherited madness. Told as a chronological horror narrative, the album follows Anton, a boy broken by systemic cruelty, whose life spirals from neglect and violence into ritualized murder in a circus set and cult indoctrination. What begins as social tragedy evolves into something far more grotesque: a generational curse embodied through masks and a carnival of death. Musically, the album moves between cinematic instrumentals, relentless extreme metal, crazy combinations of different styles, and theatrical passages that underline the story’s psychological collapse. It’s groovy, it’s progressive, violent as hell and yet brings a twisted smile on your face when you listen to it. Lyrically uncompromising and narratively explicit, The Murder Trend presents a bleak reflection on how victims can become monsters—and how in the modern world violent trends can spread like a contagion once given a symbol to wear.”
Photos by Rocktografia.
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