Plini – Sunhead
“We heard you like feeling good all the time, and that even if your life isn’t amazing, you at least want to believe it is. Regardless of your present emotional disposition, every day you continue to be able to breath, think, feel, walk, talk and most importantly listen is a blessing, so we put it into a bunch of riffs that totally sing, for you to chuck into your headphones and have your brain blasted by luminous metallic sunshine,” – Plini, Sydney-based guitarist-come-full-band-kinda-from-the-bedroom-to-the-world-stage.
For Fans Of: Periphery (sans vocals), Animals As Leaders, Joe Satriani.
Frontierer – ‘Unloved’
This is some super gnarly noise out of the UK. ‘Unloved’ sounds like the microscopic interactions of the mechanics inside the vehicles involved in a massive highway pileup crunching into eachother underneath the hoods of their doomed vessels – but at the same time it’s like an action movie car crash, where all the explosions rock your seat, you know the carnage is going to keep coming for a minute (but in a way where there’s still enough surprise to keep you throttled), and no one is actually harmed. The bad news is though, the universe is cold, and you’re still going to die alone.
For Fans Of: The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza, Ion Dissonance, The Chariot.
Ancst – Ghosts of The Timeless Void
This is a relatively small band from Germany that keeps it relatively DIY – but if it weren’t for the corporate beast that is Spotify and its wondrous radio feature, I wouldn’t have discovered them. On first glance, they appear to be relatively prolific, and have released a lot of material since 2011, including three albums this year. However Ghosts of The Timeless Void is the only one that is all that exciting, unless full-length albums of ambient noise are your thing, in which case that might be reversed and you should check out Anomaly and Celestial. I’m recommending their metal material, however – it’s crust-meets-black-metal done super well.
For Fans Of: Dissection if they were a hardcore band, Schifosi (for any old people reading this), Young And In The Way (for any young people reading this).
