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Articles

How GSE is Going to Impact SEO in the Next Year

Nov 8, 2024 | startup.info | Ryan Ward

Digital marketing is perpetually evolving, with innovations continually reshaping strategies and outcomes. One of the most recent and significant developments is Google’s new Generative Search Experience (GSE), which promises to redefine search engine optimization (SEO) in the upcoming year. Launched as part of Google’s ongoing efforts to enhance user experience, GSE leverages advanced AI to deliver more intuitive and contextually relevant search results.
ALBUM REVIEW: NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024, 28,340 DEAD - Godspeed You! Black Emperor

Oct 5, 2024 | distortedsoundmag.com | Ryan Ward

GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR have never been ones for remaining conventional. The Canadian post-rock juggernauts have developed a legendary status through their ambitious compositional style, managing to capture the current political landscape of each release through sweeping, often instrumental movements.
ALBUM REVIEW: Sons Of Destruction - The Native Howl

Oct 4, 2024 | distortedsoundmag.com | Ryan Ward

Based out of Leonard, Michigan, four-piece THE NATIVE HOWL proclaim themselves to the purveyors of ‘thrashgrass’. Pulling influence from folk, bluegrass, thrash metal, and pure hard rock, the band seek to conjure up a sound that merges the traditional with the contemporary, and that is brought to life no better than on the band’s major label debut, Sons Of Destruction.
ALBUM REVIEW: An Empire - A Swarm Of The Sun

Sep 5, 2024 | distortedsoundmag.com | Ryan Ward

Seventeen years deep into their career as A SWARM OF THE SUN, Swedish duo Erik Nilsson and Jakob Berglund have made it their mission to craft music that defies the expectations and scope of the everyday. Existing as an uneasy alliance of the sounds of orchestral, post-metal, doom metal and boundless other genres, they exist to astound the listener with an experience that is cinematic and ambitious.
EP REVIEW: Occupants - Atom Driver

Aug 14, 2024 | distortedsoundmag.com | Ryan Ward

Despite having not released even a single album, it’s impossible to say that New Jersey-based ATOM DRIVER haven’t been a hard working bunch. Forming back in 2016, the band have already established an expansive back catalogue of music from a range of EP releases.
ALBUM REVIEW: Lower Feeling - Rarity

Jun 6, 2024 | distortedsoundmag.com | Ryan Ward

It has been six long years since the last full-length project from Canadian four-piece RARITY. In 2019, the band dropped their second record, The Longest Lonesome, receiving decent acclaim in the process, and since then have gone on to release two more singles. It is clear upon listening to this latest record, however, that the band have been far from resting on their laurels, and instead have challenged themselves to produce a record that is their finest to date.
ALBUM REVIEW: Death.Horses.Black. - My Diligence

May 31, 2024 | distortedsoundmag.com | Ryan Ward

Forming back in 2015, Brussels-based trio MY DILIGENCE have been an outfit in constant evolution. From their self-titled stoner rock debut, the band have built atop their roots with increasing progressive flair, pulling influence from genres such as psych and post-metal in an attempt to create something that sounds truly monolithic. That progress reaches its natural apex with the band’s fourth record, Death.Horses.Black..
work hard or rest hard. nothing in between.

May 16, 2024 | medium.com | Ryan Ward
ALBUM REVIEW: Delta - Thot

May 13, 2024 | distortedsoundmag.com | Ryan Ward |James Weaver |Ellis Heasley

It has been seven years since the world was last treated to a full LP from THOT. With songwriter and creative mastermind Grégoire Fray at their core, alongside a fresh line-up of talented musicians, the Belgian-based outfit have continued to push their industrial post-rock style further into unknown territories on their fourth record, Delta.
The key to success: be Logically Delusional

Apr 28, 2024 | medium.com | Ryan Ward

If I’ve learned anything from 4 months of creating content, it’s this:you need to be logically delusional. In order to create something truly great, you need balance logic and delusion. Delusional enough to think you can.