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Enigmatic, genre-bending R&B metal duo sace6 have dropped their latest single Allured and the accompanying official video via Sumerian Records. The track is taken from the band’s upcoming new full-length Brutalist, set for release on Friday, May 8. Speaking about the song, the duo shared: “Our third single off of Brutalist – Allured the devastating […]

Social Distortion has unleashed Partners In Crime, the second advance taste of its long-awaited eighth album, Born To Kill. An unabashed and anthemic celebration of a lifetime dedicated to rock ’n’ roll, Partners In Crime can be heard alongside the album’s previously unveiled title track. “Partners In Crime is about finding your voice, especially if […]

Sydney’s rising metalcore kings Melrose Avenue are back with another track, Bad Guy. Challenging their artistry, this track is arguably the band’s heaviest track to date. The track pushes the band into a new space and is sure to be an instant hit with the band’s international and ever-growing fanbase. Ahead of the band’s headlining […]

Austin psych-rock trailblazers The Black Angels will return to Australia and New Zealand in 2026 for a special run of shows marking 20 years since the release of their landmark debut album Passover (2006). Newly announced headline dates in Melbourne and Adelaide join previously confirmed shows as part of VIVID (Sydney), Open Season (Brisbane) and […]

With zero announcements or teasers from the band, Enter Shikari have today surprise released their brand new album. Lose Your Self (released via So Recordings/Civilians) spans 12 tracks exploring themes of desolation, futility and complete despair at the state of the world, but with glimmers of hopefulness and optimism threaded throughout. Whilst the likes of […]

Recently announcing a new chapter for Plini, with the prolific Australian guitarist, composer and producer announcing the release of a brand new album An Unnameable Desire, set for release on Friday, April 24, comes Manala, the second track accompanied with a brand new music video. Manala follows the album’s title track and Plini shares, “Following […]

From the early days of death metal, a hybrid of Sarcofago and Deicide adds its own flavor through a modern death metal style internal dialogue of riffs producing moments of great clarity from seemingly random visions of darkness.

The best death metal does this of course: it takes a few fragments of a scene, turns them into a living narrative, then has them fight it out and become a churning conflict that resolves itself not through human morality but supremacy of higher relevance to the end result.

While the percussion follows more of a European style akin to that of proto-underground bands, guitars clearly aspire to an Incantation or Immolation style of protracted, contorted riffs that give these demos a resonant feral obscurity.

Available through Headsplit Records.

Envers moi-même
J’ai trop valsé
Avec les crève-cœurs que je sème

On Clair-obscur, David Emme arrives with the rare self-possession of an artist who seems to have chosen his limitations carefully and then made them eloquent. The Quebec City musician works in a palette familiar to post-punk and new wave: trim bass lines, cool keyboards, percussion with a stern sense of purpose, a voice held at a slight remove. Across four French-language songs, he studies strain, yearning, and the small ceremonies of survival with a sophisticated poise.

Étranger opens the EP with a mood of self-estrangement that never slips into theatrical excess. Emme sings from within the debris of his own past decisions, sounding bruised, restless, and quietly searching for a path out of private ruin. The arrangement gives the song a graceful pressure, as if each part were tightening around a thought the singer cannot quite release. We feel the sense of someone trying to walk upright while carrying the weight of old damage.

The centerpiece, L’échine, deepens the record’s concerns and broadens its scale. Here, personal unease seems to touch the larger instability of the present tense. The instrumentation has force, though it is deployed with restraint, and Emme allows a thin strand of resolve to move through the song’s unease.

Brèche is the EP’s most tender offering, though even tenderness arrives with difficulty. Its plea is directed toward someone sealed within themselves, and the song circles the problem of emotional access with unusual delicacy. Sleeplessness, memory, fear, and longing pass through the lyric like weather fronts. Emme’s vocal carries an ache that never begs for sympathy. It simply stays close to the wound.

Then comes Encore, which introduces a more sensuous sweep without loosening the EP’s discipline. Its romantic hunger, touched by the polished drama of eighties pop, lends the closing stretch a lift that feels briefly transportive. Yet even here, desire remains entangled with grief and recurrence, bringing to mind Holy Wire and Stare Away.

Listen to Clair-obscur below and order the album here.

Though the record’s title, Clair-obscur, suggests contrast, David Emme is less interested in stark oppositions than in gradations of feeling. His songs live in intermediate states: affection under pressure, doubt dressed as discipline, hope appearing in narrow bands. The production, handled with Jeremy Cornellier and mastered by Francis Ledoux, favors depth over clutter. Synths gather like mist on glass. The guitars keep their edge without turning blunt or bludgeoning. The drums move with a steady insistence that gives the songs shape and forward motion, even when the sentiments inside them threaten collapse.

Clair-obscur is a strong first statement: elegant, unsettled, and persuasive in its understanding that feeling often arrives mixed, never pure, and almost never resolved.

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The latter was directed by the band’s own Felipe Hervoso.

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Last year, Doechii presented Gaga with the Innovator Award at the iHeartRadio Music Awards. Now the rising rapper is joining forces with the pop icon for “Runway,” which was first previewed in the trailer for The Devil Wears Prada 2. The track was written by Gaga, Bruno Mars, Jaylah Hickmon, Andrew Watt, Henry Walter, Dernst “D’Mile”…

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