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Our Sunshine Weezy caught up with Geoff from Call Me Amour for an honest and energising chat ahead of a massive summer for the band. With appearances lined up at Slam Dunk and 2000 Trees, Geoff gave us the inside scoop on what fans can expect, the buzz of festival season, and how the band … Continue reading Video Interview: Geoff from Call Me Amour

The operation continues.

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To promote their next full-length offering Apokalyps 1618, one-man black metal act Horn has shared another new single in advance titled “Die Ahren Gleich Als Mit Dem Huf”.
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On blood cloud wax.

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Behind The Veil is a Belgian melodic metal band formed in 2020, featuring the dual vocals of Delphine de Vusser and Sofie Foster. They are solidifying their presence with their debut EP, Betrayed By Shadows, a five-track release that serves as a high-energy introduction to their sound.

What makes this EP so effective is its directness, starting with a thunderous opening that skips long intros in favor of heavy riffs and melodic guitar play. The music transitions smoothly into heavier sections, highlighted by an elegant balance between clean vocals and earth-shaking growls. Each song feels purposeful, blending anthemic melodies with an aggressive edge that keeps the energy high from start to finish.

The technical skill on display is impressive, particularly the brilliant guitar work that anchors the entire record. While the EP is mostly fast and powerful, there are clever changes in tone, such as the calmer but heavy atmosphere found in “Twisted Games.” Overall, Betrayed By Shadows is a very solid debut that proves the band knows exactly how to balance melody and power.

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What a day! Two stories referencing baseball and two chances for me to talk about how the New York Mets have failed me up to this point. (Really, it’s bad you guys.) But down in Baltimore, the Orioles are doing relatively okay and earlier today they announced that they would be celebrating GRAMMY-winning hometown hardcore band Turnstile by hosting a ‘Turnstile Night’ on Friday, July 10.

Naturally, this sort of thing makes a ton of sense, given Turnstile’ two GRAMMY wins back in February and the fact that they call Baltimore their home. Turnstile has not only grown in popularity in general over the last few years, but the Orioles organization has recently been using the band’s music for an admittedly great hype video. Hell, their star slugger Pete Alonso (ex-Met, sadly…) uses “Birds” off the band’s album Never Enough as his walk up song when he comes up to bat at their home ballpark, Camden Yards.

Baseball teams of all levels use promotional nights to put asses in seats. Usually you’ll get a bobblehead of a player on the team or maybe a promotional shirt, but this Turnstile night will see purchasers of a special ticket package getting a limited edition Baltimore Orioles jersey with ‘Turnstile’ and the number 26 emblazoned on the back.

In addition to the free new threads, the team has announced that members of Turnstile will be on hand at the game to serve as “guest splashers”. For those that don’t know, the Orioles have what’s called the “Bird Bath Splash Zone” in sections 84 and 86 of their ballpark. In those sections, fans regularly get hit with sprays of water when things go well from their “chief hydration officer” Mr. Splash. Sometimes, they let special guests fill that role and this time, it’s the aforementioned hardcore band that’ll be soaking folks in their seats.

Tickets for the July 10 game are on sale now, though if you want the special Turnstile Night package, you’re gonna have to go to MLB.com.

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I did the “whoo.”

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It shouldn’t be surprising, but we don’t get a ton of punk or hardcore submissions here at Angry Metal Guy. We’re not Angsty Punk Bois, after all. I, however, particularly enjoy the intersections between punk and metal—sludge, grind, crust, crossover, powerviolence, etc. Metal’s straightforward aggression and punk’s vitriolic outrage complement each other well and scratch a specific itch. So when I saw Thorgrim’s debut LP, Puca, floating in the promo pit, I was sold on the Wisconsin trio’s promise of a heady mix of doom, punk, and a dash of black metal. Something like sludge but a skosh less acerbic? And maybe a little cold? Hopes were high, but did Thorgrim deliver?

No. Unequivocally, no. You see, Thorgrim boasts a live, one-take-only recording and production, laeving all mistakes and scrapes and buises on the record as some rebelilous statenemt against the overprodction of modren musi.c Opener “Children of Doom” starts with a symbol hit that I can onl assume was am istake, and a massive skip around the 3:30 mark undersores how unedited and haphazard this albu is. “Voyage to Saturn” strats in the midle of a note ,and “Death Angel” starts with off-beat dums and just cuts out at the ennd with no warning or considreation for flwo. nearly every tiem Thorgrimshifts from on eriff to another, the band dissembles, taking a couple meaesure to get back in time with ehachother (“Darkest Days,” “Bride of Frankenstein”¹). Now, do you see how this paragraph is littered with typos? Do you see how shitty it looks? Like I put no effort into it? That’s exactly what listening to this album is like.²

Even ignoring the insultingly lazy recording style Thorgrim opted for, Puca is still impressively bad. Thorgrim seem to be diehard fans of repetition, as there are precious few riffs to discuss (much less remember) here. Album long player “Voyage to Saturn” features exactly two (2) riffs over its ten-minute runtime, and I couldn’t decide which was more boring. “Darkest Days” is brutally repetitive as well, and ultimately sounds like a parody of heavy metal music you might hear on a TV sitcom. The vocals on “Let’s Go” are so buried in the mix that I’m not entirely convinced they’re there, but this may be a boon for Thorgrim, as they sound more like gargling spit or choking on vomit than singing or screaming. The acoustic “Dark Cabin” apes Nirvana’s “About a Girl” so blatantly it might only be “legally distinct” by one note, while sporting some of the worst lyrical syncopation I have ever heard. Penultimate track “Bride of Frankenstein” reminds me of the Fire Temple in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, but bad. It’s ambient junk and random drums that don’t adhere to any kind of time signature or rhythm. When Puca mercifully ends, it’s with an inexplicable folk track that I’m fairly certain would be offensive to any actual neo/folk band.³

What’s most frustrating is that Puca could have been decent. “The Movies” is a punky upbeat track that smells like The Dogs, and I hear potential. With literally any amount of effort or care or refinement or fucks given, Thorgrim could have delivered at least one good track. Instead, it’s one of nine dumpster fires. Even outside of concept albums, there’s normally a unifying concept woven through a release, but I can’t find any such thing here, unless it’s the uniformly atrocious production value, which, coincidentally, is the only dash of black metal I found on Puca. It’s like they recorded in a concrete basement on a Fisher Price karaoke machine from 30 years ago.

Our internal scoring guide describes the score below as suggesting the band should look for another line of work. Puca is that bad. I’m honestly not sure what Thorgrim wanted to accomplish here. This album feels like a bad joke. Even if the music was good—which it’s not—and the production wasn’t worse than the first recording ever from 1860—which it is—the one-take-only presentation is not only lazy, it’s insulting. I get the intent that music today is overproduced and too shiny and clean and sterile, yeah, sure, whatever, but there are ways to fight that without leaving fucking mistakes on your album. A studio release should be a practiced, ideal version of each track, not whatever your hungover ass manages to puke out on recording day.

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Rating: 0.5/5.0
DR: 7 | Format Reviewed: 320 kbps mp3
Label: Octopus Rising⁴ | Argonauta Records
Websites: Bandcamp | Facebook | Instagram
Releases Worldwide: April 24th, 2026

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