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Album Review: Scordatura – Led Into Oblivion

Some years back I had the opportunity to see Scordatura live, but because my life is a sequence of solvent-inhaling episodes of abject dickheadery, I gave them a miss. Yet every mistake renders you indebted; sooner or later the future will demand payment. Now seems the time to make good on this particular error; faced with their new album, an episode from my past reaches forth through the drifting haze of time to slap my chops and kick my balls – I should have leapt on this band like a starved jaguar an age ago.

From Scotland they hail, and what Scordatura do is so far up my street that they’ve parked on my lawn, fucked my wife, and my kids are calling them “dad” now. Sounding somewhere in the middle of a list of bands we all probably know and love (Aborted, Cryptopsy, Foetal Juice, so on and so forth) theirs is a breed of grindy death dealing that feels calculated down to a quantum level to tick most every box I have to be ticked. Thumbing grimy protrusions into the puckered orifices of tech (“Oppressed Repressed”) while still swinging with enough dirty groove to make you feel as though you’re being trepanned with a haggis (“A Manic Indoctrination”), it’s a deeply complex Rubik’s cube of seemingly infinite riffs screwed together into these pulsating, unruly compositions – not wholly unlike cattle decapitation in places, what with all the sliding grind riffs on tracks like “Led Into Oblivion” – and god help me if it isn’t crushing over each and every spin.

Tracks spiral out into convulsing centipede nests of sections, zipping through scalpel-sharp tremolo sequences and noodle-digit flights of techy fret molestation only to spring through all of it with a brutal straight right of a Regurgitate goregrind riff that turns your solar plexus into paste. “Begging for Death” (the album closer) does this so well, wormhole-jumping between rhythms and beats at a pace that feels hopelessly chaotic yet leashed, controlled and deployed with military precision. I knew not that Buckfast and deep fried Mars bars could grant such powers, but, well, here we are. At 28 minutes there’s an argument that the album is a little on the stingy side regarding it’s runtime, but equally when it’s such a voracious collection of musical hate crimes it’s one I could only make half heartedly. Rabid wolverines don’t need a generous timeframe to flense your skull, and realistically neither do Scordatura – and while I’d love it if they put guitar solos on their followup (whenever that happens to surface) an absence of solos isn’t a dealbreaker so much as a footnote on an otherwise dwarven wishlist.

Not so long back I reviewed “Sphere of Atrocities” by Portuguese degenerates Grog, and there’s a few sentiments expressed there that I feel I could repeat here. Speed. Technicality. A raw, unfiltered lust for atrocious violence. These things speak to me on therapist-worrying levels. It’s why I have to be chained to a radiator if I want to listen to Colombian death metal, something about the unbridled semi-controlled chaos of it drills down to the molten core of everything I like in my death metal and lays eggs there. Now, Scordatura aren’t quite that intense, but they’re nonetheless speaking my fucking language with absolute fluency. When blastbeat-happy fare like…well, all of it, but lets take “When the Red Moon Hangs Low” cycles through it’s litany of tempo switch ups, each time choosing the perfect possible moment to twist a groove into your ribs or extend a riff by a measure or so just to keep you guessing, the grin on my face is so wide I have to walk sideways to get through the door. It helps that the production is a little on the raw side too; bright, clinical, mirror-sheen production values have their place, but that place is nowhere near my ears. Music like this needs a grit to it, the crunch of molars on cartilage, asphalt ground into shredded musculature. Scordatura, praise be, agree – and went for a legible but still appreciably grisly job that takes their unsavoury secretions and rams wet chunks of it down your gullet.

I’ve nitpicks. There’s a stock “fire” sound effect in the intro that felt a bit tawdry but if that’s going to be the calibre of criticism I can manage then I may as well not bother. If you like any of the bands I’ve somewhat liberally namechecked here, then if the next thing you do isn’t buying this then you are bad at life and I hope that every pigeon you ever walk under shits on you. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to play this thing again for roughly the 4000th time.

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Wake of Humanity embark on their “European Distress Tour” later this month. This is their 3rd visit to

Piu is Vancouver Island-based Priyanka Chakrabarti, whose music presents a thoughtful blend of synths, beats, and field recordings inspired by Indian raga and folk music. She’s been promoting her forthcoming album Milao with advance singles including the serenely droning title track and the woozy, beat-driven “Jaare,” which reminds me of solo Thom Yorke. Today’s new single “Home” builds steadily into a bleary, syncopated electronic epic.

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Earlier this year, our column The Alternative Number ones covered the great 1996 Eels song “Novocaine For The Soul.” At least in the US, that was the only big hit that Eels ever made. But band mastermind Mark Oliver Everett, aka E, has kept the project going ever since then, amassing a huge discography of lush, downcast, personal pop music. Everett is the subject of a new Judd Apatow-produced documentary, and now he’s got another new album on the way, too.

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Pressure Set have announced their debut single, “Blood Gimmick,” the first taste of their forthcoming self-titled album, due out

It was evident from Lily Seabird’s March song “Demon In Me” that something special was coming from the Burlington singer-songwriter. Considering she hails from the same scene that nurtured great acts like Greg Freeman and Robber Robber, expectations are high. She exceeds them on today’s new single “Election Day,” which comes with the news of her new album Lightspheres On Their Way.

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Polyphia have revealed that they are going to be making their way around the world on tour throughout the tail-end of 2026.

Following the arrival of their first single in over four years, ‘CAN YOU FEEL IT’, last week, the boundary-pushing instrumental rock titans have announced a huge run of dates across Europe and North America. 

They’ll be making their way to the UK in December, stopping off at London’s O2 Academy Brixton for a very special show.

RJ Pasin will support at all of the upcoming shows, with Perturbator joining on UK and European dates.

The band’s North American shows will also feature Ladrones, with select dates including Intervals and Plini.

Here are all the dates you need to know:

SEPTEMBER

5: DALLAS, TX South Side Ballroom
8: ALBUQUERQUE, NM Revel Entertainment Center
10: LOS ANGELES, CA Hollywood Palladium
12: ANAHEIM, CA House of Blues
13: SAN FRANCISCO, CA The Masonic
16: SALT LAKE CITY, UT The Union Event Center
18: DENVER, CO JUNKYARD
20: WAUKEE, IA Vibrant Music Hall
21: MILWAUKEE, WI Landmark Credit Union Live
22: MINNEAPOLIS, MN The Armory
24: CHESTERFIELD, MO The Factory
25: CHICAGO, IL Aragon Ballroom
26: DETROIT, MI The Fillmore
28: GRAND RAPIDS, MI GLC Live at 20 Monroe
29: TORONTO, ON Great Canadian Casino

OCTOBER

1: MONTREAL, QC L’Olympia
3: BOSTON, MA MGM Music Hall at Fenway
5: BROOKLYN, NY Brooklyn Paramount
7: WALLINGFORD, CT Toyota Oakdale Theatre
8: WASHINGTON, DC Echostage
10: PHILADELPHIA, PA The Fillmore
11: VIRGINIA BEACH, VA The Dome by Rutter Mills
13: RALEIGH, NC Red Hat Amphitheater
15: FORT LAUDERDALE, FL War Memorial Auditorium
16: ORLANDO, FL Hard Rock Live
17: ATLANTA, GA Coca-Cola Roxy
18: NASHVILLE, TN The Truth

NOVEMBER

18: ZURICH Halle 622
19: LYON Le Radiant
20: TOULOUSE Interference
22: BARCELONA Razzmatazz
23: MADRID Sala La Riviera
25: MILAN Alcatraz
27: MUNICH Zenith
28: PRAGUE SaSaZu
29: WARSAW Progresja
30: LEIPZIG Haus Auensee

DECEMBER

2: HAMBURG Docks
4: COPENHAGEN Amager Bio
5: BERLIN Tempodrom
6: OBERHAUSEN Turbinenhalle
7: BRUSSELS Ancienne Belgique
8: AMSTERDAM AFAS Live
9: PARIS Zenith Paris
11: BIRMINGHAM O2 Academy Birmingham
12: MANCHESTER Manchester Academy
15: LEEDS O2 Academy Leeds
16: LONDON O2 Academy Brixton

Presale will begin on June 16 at 4pm BST before general sale kicks off on June 19 at 10 AM local time. Grab everything you need from right here.

To get the excitement well and truly flowing, take a listen to the electrifying ‘CAN YOU FEEL IT’ below:

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