Fast-rising South London rockers The Karma Effect have shared yet another absolute banger today in the shape of brand new single ‘Ride Or Die’. Listen – here The third track to be released from the five-piece’s much-anticipated forthcoming album ‘Cruel Intentions’ (out on 15th May via Earache Records), ‘Ride Or Die’ follows acclaimed singles ‘Waiting […]
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Starquake – the project led by multi-instrumentalist Mikey Wenzl – return with Brawls and Witches. Another fine work of thumping 1970s inspired heavy/prog rock with a couple of surprises thrown in. I’m a big fan of Miley’s previous Starquake albums of Times that Matter, Space Time Matter and At the Circus. Brawls and Witches squarely […]
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I am writing this review with tequila and lime salt still oozing out of my pores. My eyeballs each have a different heartbeat, and I am honestly amazed (if not a little disappointed) that I began the day with my pants still on. And yet the call of the promo pit continues, as I was shaken out of my birthday-shenanigans-induced stupor by the smell of gorilla breath outside my lion’s den, and something rancid chucked at its entrance. The Ape being pleased post-album release usually means great news for hopeful bands and an increased labor for those under his watchful and merciless eye, and one peep at this moldy art spelled out the whole mission statement from the get-go. Denmark’s Foetorum are a very young outfit, having just penned their sole demo last year1 before unleashing their debut full-length Incongruous Forms of Evergrowing Rot on the unsuspecting masses. I hope you’re hungry, because we’ve got some leftovers from rotsgiving waiting for you!
Foetorum specialize in a refreshingly energetic breed of death/doom. Blasts feature aplenty, but are typically used as points of transition or introduction/outro to songs. Most of Incongruous Forms of Evergrowing Rot operates on second and third gear, with the sustained open chords you’d expect often molding into mid-paced chugging savagery. Indeed, if you’re a sucker for mid-paced chuggathons, this will be a euphoric experience for you as the overwhelming backbone of most of the songs rely on such a trope. Imagine the most downtempo moments of Cannibal Corpse with a lot of atmospheric high-trem plucking for atmospherics and run through some extra fresh grave soil—something between Phobophilic and SEDIMENTUM—and you have a good idea of what’s waiting. The high note musings are a great addition, giving whiffs of melancholy and gloom to the proceedings, which might otherwise threaten to be an overly simplistic sound with their engaging melodies (“Mors Viaturis – The Death Traveler”) before collapsing into the next jackhammer assault.
And boy howdy, jackhammers are aplenty. Despite the relative simplicity of the approach, a great deal of thought has gone into each arrangement to keep one concrete-burrowing assault after another fresh and engaging. “Tapestries of Misery” commands with a gripping 6/8 time signature and a whiff of unexpected SKRONK, while “Oozing with Pustulent Fluids” keeps burrowing into the earth’s crust with a classic Vader riff played at half speed while drummer Geistaz keeps things engaging with an ever-shifting focus between creative bass fills and high-hat ting-and-tangs. His drumming is part of what keeps the Foetorum recipe so engaging (“Rebirth in Morbid Disgust”) as no chug sounds exactly the same despite the band drawing so deeply from what is a usually very narrowly defined well.
If you’re about that chug life, the death here is excellent; the only real stumbling block comes from some of the doomier elements. Foetorum have improved on the Sanctuarium formula of sandwiching their blasts and chugs between sudden slowdowns, but there’s no escaping that some moments are real momentum killers. “Oozing…” drops down to bare-minimum quarter note walks lacking any weight to carry the empty space, while “Decay of the Flesh” throws in some harmonized leads that don’t quite overcome the lack of progression in the songs. Not every doom element is poor, by any means, but it happens enough to degrade decompose Incongruous Forms of Evergrowing Rot” to an album more memorable by its moments than by the wholeness of its songs. And yet, those highlights are plenty, and it’s great to hear when the band really stick the landing, like in album finale “Peeled Face Mask”. This is a contender for the top of the song pile, with the most ruthless chugs, groovy riffing, great doomy moments, and even a major dollop of leads sounding pulled from Gates of Ishtar.2 This track shows the band have a great grasp of what makes their sound a success, and more of this across the whole body of work would lead to a real RotM contender.
Incongruous Forms of Evergrowing Rot is less an excellent debut and more an excellent debut. It shows a band with a clear purpose and musical vision, but a vision not free of warts and rough edges. When it hits, though, it hits. Foetorum have erupted from the grave, covered in fluid and mold, ready to make their deathly mark on the world. With enough force to change cave structure and a grasp of atmosphere beyond their youth, the band have announced their presence in style, and I believe the best is yet to come for their cemetery anthems. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I need to get myself some coffee and some food. Preferably, something a little extra raw and rotted…
Rating: 3.0/5.0
DR: 8 | Format Reviewed: 320 kbps mp3
Label: Everlasting Spew Records
Website: Album Bandcamp
Releases Worldwide: March 27th, 2026
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Avril Lavigne has covered an Alanis Morissette classic as part of the soundtrack for the upcoming film Mile End Kicks.
The track Avril has tackled is ‘Ironic’, one of the defining songs of the 90s and one that delivers as much nostalgia as it does unbridled joy.
As a child of that era of Canadian pop-rock, Avril embodies the attitude necessary to pull off such a huge cultural cornerstone, whilst throwing in some of her own journey for good measure. The result is fierce and fresh and fun, all of the things you would hope to hear on the soundtrack of a romcom.
Here it is:
Mile End Kicks is a new movie from Sumerian Pictures, which stars Barbie Ferreira, Devon Bostick, Stanley Simons, and Juliette Gariépy. It is due to be released on April 17. The story follows a music critic who gets romantically involved with two members of the same band, set in Montreal back in 2011, at a time when the scene was it is most vibrant and exciting.
You can check out the trailer below:
The film features another Alanis cover, too. That is ‘Wake Up’, taken on by Bailey Spinn:
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