No Gentle Art
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Kathryn Kerr and Jesse Matthewson of KEN Mode performing live at Tilburn's Roadburn Festival; 2023.
📷: Peter Troest
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Omega Radio for April 3, 2016; #109.
Fight Amp “Goner”
Free Children Of Earth “Terminal Stasis”
Primitive Weapons “Quitter’s Anthem”
You Fucking Die “Sterile Art”
Pigs “Another Hour In Dick City”
UXO “Blind Suicide”
Summer Cannibals “Full Of It”
Scumbag Millionaire “Dead End”
KEN Mode “Daeodon”
Dirty Nil, The “Wrestle Yu To Husker Du”
Church Of Misery “Make Them Die Slowly”
Deja Vega “Friends In High Places”
Black Cobra “Negative Reversal”
War On Women “Servilia”
Chelsea Wolfe “Carrion Flowers”
Making Fuck “Mormon Guilt”
Deafheaven “Come Back”
Whores. “Daddy’s Money”
Baroness “Morningstar”
Drug Church “Then Try”
Primitive Weapons “Or Do Ideas Have You”
You Fucking Die “This Is How Words Are Made”
Super Unison “Close Your Eyes”
Kinski “Detroit Trickle Down”
Meshuggah “Obzen”
Ironboss “Motherfucker”
Neurosis “Locust Star”
Boris & Merzbow “Huge”
Deluxe metalcore, doom, sludge, and stoner.
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100 of my favorite rock, punk, and metal adjacent (-core) releases since 2010, limited to two per artist. i feel like the top of this list is pretty typical, but there was a point around the middle of last decade where i stopped paying as much attention to newer bands popping up since i just wasn't finding a ton of stuff that grabbed me. despite me going back later on and listening to a lot of the stuff i missed i don't have as strong of a connection to some of it as i do bands i've been listening to 15+ years. there's actually been a handful of artists putting out music in the last few years though that have helped reignite that spark and helped push me to seek out anything i might have overlooked - shout out to brutus, the armed, greyhaven, soul glo, state faults, shin guard, blood command, blind girls, callous daoboys, dreamwell, frontierer, crowning, frail hands, nuvolascura, portrayal of guilt, senza, and vein.fm to name a few. as always, if anyone reading this has any recommendations feel free to send them my way. it's always appreciated.
Spotify Playlist with one song from each of these albums
Chart w/ album titles
Top 100 Modern Metal Releases
i'll do another one of these for death, black, sludge, prog, death, post, drone, stoner, doom, etc metal in the future, it just seemed like it'd be easier to narrow down if i split it up this way and might make it seem a little less all over the place but i'm not so sure i succeeded at that, ha. hopefully there's something on here for everyone though. peace to you and yours, i hope everyone's doing well.
1. The Dillinger Escape Plan - One of Us Is the Killer
2. Every Time I Die - Ex Lives
3. Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind
4. The Chariot - Long Live
5. Gospel - The Loser
6. Kvelertak - Kvelertak
7. Nails - Unsilent Death
8. Loma Prieta - I.V.
9. letlive - Fake History
10. Rolo Tomassi - Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It
11. Glassjaw - coloring book
12. KEN mode - Entrench
13. State Faults - Resonate/Desperate
14. Brutus - Nest
15. United Nations - The Next Four Years
16. Idles - Joy as an Act of Resistance.
17. Shin Guard - 2020
18. Frontierer - Orange Mathematics
19. Exotic Animal Petting Zoo - Tree of Tongues
20. Wormrot - Voices
21. The Armed - Only Love
22. Think Again - NEVER
23. Vein - Errorzone
24. White Lung - Deep Fantasy
25. Protest the Hero - Volition
26. Blood Command - Cult Drugs
27. Beastmilk - Climax
28. Melt-Banana - Fetch
29. Every Time I Die - Low Teens
30. Protomartyr - Relatives In Descent
31. Soul Glo - Diaspora Problems
32. Gridlink - Longhena
33. tricot - A N D
34. Cloud Nothings - Attack on Memory
35. The Dillinger Escape Plan - Dissociation
36. Greyhaven - Empty Black
37. Turnstile - Glow On
38. The Callous Daoboys - Die On Mars
39. Cloud Rat - Pollinator
40. Converge - The Dusk in Us
41. Parquet Courts - Wide Awake!
42. Dreamwell - Modern Grotesque
43. Circle Takes the Square - Decompositions, Vol. 1
44. Gaza - No Absolutes in Human Suffering
45. Respire - Black Line
46. Lightning Bolt - Sonic Citadel
47. Senza - Even a Worm Will Turn
48. KEN mode - Loved
49. Brutus - Burst
50. Crowning - Survival / Sickness
51. Blind Girls - Residue
52. Car Bomb - Meta
53. Frail Hands - Frail Hands
54. Glassjaw - Material Control
55. Portrayal Of Guilt - We Are Always Alone
56. Envy - The Fallen Crimson
57. All Pigs Must Die - Hostage Animal
58. Birds in Row - We Already Lost The World
59. Sectioned - Annihilated
60. For Your Health / Shin Guard - Death Of Spring
61. mewithoutYou - [Untitled]
62. Cleric - Retrocausal
63. IDYLLS - Prayer For Terrene
64. Nails - Abandon All Life
65. Rinoa - An Age Among Them
66. Knocked Loose - A Tear in The Fabric of Life
67. The Chariot - One Wing
68. Beau Navire - Lumens
69. Loathe - I Let It In And It Took Everything
70. Squid - Bright Green Field
71. Black Breath - Sentenced to Life
72. Oathbreaker - Eros|Anteros
73. State Faults - Clairvoyant
74. Lord Snow - Solitude
75. Single Mothers - Negative Qualities
76. øjne - Prima Che Tutto Bruci
77. Full of Hell & Merzbow - Full of Hell & Merzbow
78. Touché Amoré - Stage Four
79. Iceage - Beyondless
80. Marmozets - The Weird and Wonderful Marmozets
81. snag. - Death Doula
82. Incendiary - Thousand Mile Stare
83. Defeater - Letters Home
84. Shizune - CHEAT DEATH, LIVE DEAD!
85. La Dispute - Wildlife
86. Nuvolascura - As We Suffer From Memory & Imagination
87. Comadre - Comadre
88. Ampere - Like Shadows
89. Dead In The Dirt - The Blind Hole
90. Cult Leader - Lightless Walk
91. Svalbard - When I Die, Will I Get Better?
92. Pupil Slicer - Mirrors
93. Norma Jean - Meridional
94. Hopesfall - Arbiter
95. Chalk Hands - Don't Think About Death
96. Ion Dissonance - Cursed
97. Gouge Away - Burnt Sugar
98. Ostraca - Last
99. Punch - They Don't Have To Believe
100. Bagdadski Vor - Колхида
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I was tagged by @notyourdruidess to share some music
Rules: Shuffle your 'on repeat' playlist and post the first ten tracks, then tag ten people.
Uh, I don't know who wants to do this, but if you see this, go for it
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KEN Mode - Loved (2018)
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Best of 2023 - Band I've finally been able to get into this year
It's KEN mode!
I feel like Void is probably one of the band's more accessible albums, but I'm looking forward to exploring their back catalogue. They make interesting extreme 'noise rock' with hardcore and industrial influences, while still being very much their own thing (and they've been re-working a lot of their live material to take into account they now have a full time keyboardist in the band!). Plus by all accounts, they are Good People (pals with Vile Creature and Lingua Ignota, for example).
Honourable mention to Taylor Swift - I figured I should finally find out what all the fuss was about, so I sat down (in the car) and listened to the album Midnights... Look, I get it. It's very polished, its interesting musically, and the wordplay is solid. I get why people like it, but... it's not for me. Some of that is musically (again, Taylor is a very competant vocalist, but if I'm listening to this kind of music, I feel like Lana Del Ray or Miley Cyrus both have better voices and write more engaging music for me), but I suspect a lot of it comes down to the content as well; I'm always going to connect more with the wider themes on albums like Call Down The Sun than I am to something more autobiographical like Midnights, I suspect...
(my husband now says he will send me anything funny and Taylor Swift related he finds because I'm now the only person he knows who's actually listened to a Taylor Swift album... 😜)
This year? I'm going to try my hardest to get into Escuela Grind - by all rights, they should absolutely be my jam; shouty vocalist, keen understanding of the history of the genres they play in, a collab with Barney from Napalm Death (!), and an EP called PPOOWWEERRVVIIOOLLEENNCCEE... what's not to like? For whatever reason, I've bounced off their music so far, but I will persist!
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This week's vinyl record is this three way split by Shallow North Dakota, Kowloon Walled City, and KEN Mode
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OCTOBER 21, 2023 (#361)
Population II: "Beau Bapteme" (***NEW)
Borzoi: "Bonus Army" (***NEW)
Split System: "On The Street" (***NEW)
Honey Radar: "Rainbird / English Costume"
Corker: "Sour Candy" (***NEW)
JJ & The A's: "Head In A Vat" (***NEW)
D. Sablu: "Live" For Tour
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard: "Gila Monster" (***NEW)
FACS: "Slogan" (***NEW)
Glaas: "Cruel Heart, Cold Summer" (***NEW)
Heavy Lungs: "All Gas No Breaks" (***NEW)
Porcelain: "C.O.A." (***NEW)
Neckbolt: "Sort Of" (***NEW)
Motorbike: "Throttle" (***NEW)
Blessed: "Felt" (***NEW)
Jus B: "No Gaze Inside Out" (***NEW)
Divide & Dissolve: "Indignation" (***NEW)
Death Index: "Patto Con Dio"
Facet: "Automatic" (***NEW)
S.M.I.L.E.: Lobotomy"
Kal Marks: "Fuck That Guy"
KEN Mode: "These Wires" (***NEW)
Ditz: "Riverstone" (***NEW)
Vangas: "Still" (***NEW)
Mt. Phylzzz: "I Took A Selfie At The Protest So Now I'm A Good Person"
Here's some fined-tuned craziness for another deluxe Saturday night. This edition of Omega Radio showcases two hours of new, current, and favorite garage, noise rock, psych-, thunderous and smashed sounds - all in demolition derby form.
It's not over yet. Two more deluxe broadcasts to go before we wrap up Year 11 on the air. Where the wheel stops? Tune in in two weeks and find out.
November 4, 2023 (10PM New York City): final deluxe Autumn Omega + Year 11 broadcast.
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KEN MODE-THE SHRIKE
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"Lost Grip" by KEN Mode - From "Null" (2022)
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KEN Mode, "Extending Common Courtesy Throughout the Evening"
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Omega Radio for January 28, 2017; #131.
Unstoppable Death Machines “Single Clarity”
Genghis Tron “Board Up The House”
Mannequin Pussy “Pledge”
Anasazi “Sudden Illlness”
Black Cobra “Dragon & Phoenix”
Ex-Breathers “Open Source”
Neurosis “Fire Is The End Lesson”
Urochromes “2 Men”
Single Mothers “Hell (Is My Backup Plan)”
War On Women “Second Wave Goodbye”
Daughters “The Hit”
Rollins Band “Ghost Rider”
Unsane “Blood Boy (Hell’s Angel’s)”
Sleep “Dragonaught”
Whores. “Fake Life”, “Straight Down”
Pissed Jeans “Ignorecam”
Primitive Weapons “Ashes Or Paradise”
United Nations “Serious Business”
Nine Of Swords “Buoy”
KEN Mode “The Ugliest Happy You Ever Seen” , “Your Heartwarming Story Makes Me Sick”
Uniform “The Killing Of America”
Yautja “Of Lament”
Melting Hand “High Collider”
Full Of Hell & Merzbow “High Fells”
Deluxe noise rock, metal, post-punk, d.i.y., and metalcore.
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Omega Radio for October 21, 2023; #361.
Population II: "Beau Bapteme"
Borzoi: "Bonus Army"
Split System: "On The Street"
Honey Radar: "Rainbird / English Costume"
Corker: "Sour Candy"
JJ & The A's: "Head In A Vat"
D. Sablu: "Live" For Tour
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard: "Gila Monster"
FACS: "Slogan"
Glaas: "Cruel Heart, Cold Summer"
Heavy Lungs: "All Gas No Breaks"
Porcelain: "C.O.A."
Neckbolt: "Sort Of"
Motorbike: "Throttle"
Blessed: "Felt"
Jus B: "No Gaze Inside Out"
Divide & Dissolve: "Indignation"
Death Index: "Patto Con Dio"
Facet: "Automatic"
S.M.I.L.E.: Lobotomy"
Kal Marks: "Fuck That Guy"
KEN Mode: "These Wires"
Ditz: "Riverstone"
Vangas: "Still"
Mr. Phylzzz: "I Took A Selfie At The Protest So Now I'm A Good Person"
Deluxe noise rock, psych-, and garage edition.
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2018
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