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3 weeks ago | 
thequietus.com | Kez Whelan |John Doran
TQ’s John Doran is traveling a long way to make the claim that heavy metal is the last true form of mass modernism. Half way around the world to be precise. A one person version of the show What Is This That Stands Before Me: Heavy Metal And Modernism that he co-developed with Sapphire Goss is scheduled for Saturday 12 April at The Salon of the Theatre Royal Nipaluna/Hobart.
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1 month ago | 
thequietus.com | Kez Whelan |Bobby Barry |Jon Buckland
1929, New York City. six months before the crash. Edward Bernays, inspired by the work of his double uncle Sigmund Freud, paid women to smoke cigarettes whilst marching in the Easter Sunday Parade. He called them ‘Torches of Freedom’, as if every puff were a hammer blow to the shackles of patriarchal oppression.The idea was to both break a social taboo and to increase the number of female smokers with a casual flick of a lighter’s flint.
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1 month ago | 
loudersound.com | Kez Whelan
After Imperial Triumphant's dizzying dissonance reached its most obtuse peaks on 2022’s dense, knotted Spirit Of Ecstasy, it was difficult to see where NYC’s avant-garde trio could go next. Having doggedly toured the festival circuit since, and re-familiarised themselves with the classic songwriting chops of Metallica and Rush on last year’s covers EP, they’ve taken a relatively more accessible approach for their fifth full-length.
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1 month ago | 
yahoo.com | Kez Whelan
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. After Imperial Triumphant's dizzying dissonance reached its most obtuse peaks on 2022’s dense, knotted Spirit Of Ecstasy, it was difficult to see where NYC’s avant-garde trio could go next.
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1 month ago | 
thequietus.com | Kez Whelan |Patrick Clarke
No, I did not score Black Sabbath tickets.
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1 month ago | 
thequietus.com | Bobby Barry |Kez Whelan
Though clearly part of a lineage of introspective, forward-thinking post-metal stretching back to Neurosis, Rwake never really sounded like any of their peers. On paper, the Arkansas septet’s fusion of extreme metal riffing, southern rock licks and progressive songwriting might sound similar to what Mastodon or Kylesa were doing at the same time, but whilst those bands had more of a punchy hardcore energy, Rwake were much swampier and more oppressive.
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1 month ago | 
thequietus.com | Kez Whelan |John Doran
For just under a year after construction was completed in 1930, the Chrysler Building in New York City was the tallest in the world. Located at the intersection of 42nd Street and Lexington, it remains the tallest building in the world made of brick. Its distinctive eagle-headed gargoyles, made from a corrosion-resistant stainless steel called Nirosta, still survey East Manhattan. It’s a monument to the Art Deco movement, now dead – yet in a way still living – in one of the world’s greatest cities.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
thequietus.com | Kez Whelan |Patrick Clarke |Dan Franklin
Following the lofty flights of 2021 album Kvitravn (White Raven), Wardruna are returning to the heart of winter with new album, Birna (She-Bear). Central to Wardruna’s sound is Einar Selvik’s fascination with instruments from the past and their uncanny ability to describe the concerns of the present. Wardruna’s music is shaped by its themes. Animism – the living soul of all nature – is a prevailing thread throughout, as well as Norse culture and much more.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
thequietus.com | Kez Whelan |Patrick Clarke
Black metal fans have been spoilt for choice of late, with no shortage of suitably grim records to match the sub-zero temperatures we’ve been plunged into. Swiss trio Aara’s sixth album Eiger is perhaps their most harrowing yet, a concept album exploring the death of four mountaineers, up against the elements as they attempt to scale one of the most treacherous summits in the Bernese Alps.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
thequietus.com | Pavel Godfrey |Jennifer Lucy Allan |Patrick Clarke |Kez Whelan
Whittling down a year’s worth of releases for these end of year round-ups is always a challenge, but this year has been the hardest in recent memory by some margin; the amount of top quality metal dished out in 2024 would put your local blacksmith to shame. We’ve truly been spoiled over the last twelve months, whatever sub-genre of metal you’re most invested in.
