Playlist for September 30 – October 6
Quick playlist highlights
– Like Moths To Flames released a new single as the final track of their last album, ‘The Cycles of Trying To Cope.’ The band stated, “Some of you might’ve heard the song as it is the hidden track on the record,” but I’m not sure how people could have accessed it. Maybe it was just on certain vinyl variants? Either way, this is already one of my favorite songs from the album. LMTF does not miss.
– In Dying Arms just released a new album. I can’t believe how few listeners they have on Spotify. They were one of the first deathcore bands to experiment with clean singing in 2011 and they have a special place in my heart. They’ve been slowly putting out singles over the last few years – I hope they return in full force.
– Aviana is literally being kept alive by Joel Holmquist’s rage. Joel was recruited into the band after Marcus Vik left to join Invent Animate. Pretty quickly after that, every member of Aviana quit, leaving Joel on his own. I thought Aviana was done for, but Joel refused to give up. He recruited new members and is single-handedly forging a path to success. In fact, Aviana has 243k listeners on Spotify and Invent Animate has 262k. That is actually insane. The hardstyle influences at 0:37 are a cool addition too.
– Allt just put out a new album and it’s impressive. I need to give it another full listen, but their vocalist has improved so much over the last year or two. I expect to see more conversations about these guys as people start to catch on. This style could see them touring with bands like August Burns Red that appeal to a more serious, mature type of metalcore crowd.
– The Browning just released their fifth single. The album comes out on November 8 and is going to contain 10 tracks. I feel like they’ll probably release another single a few days before the album, so there will only be four new songs? I don’t know man, I don’t love this current era where bands release 50% or more of the album as singles.
– Knosis is Ryo Kinoshita’s (ex-vocalist of Crystal Lake) new band. I’ve been into the songs so far – it’s kind of like a continuation of Crystal Lake.
– Downpour is a small melodic hardcore band from the UK that I’ve featured before. I wanted to give them a shout out this time because I like what they’ve been doing.
– This Mental Cruelty track is nuts. Super heavy and symphonic. The only problem is that Lorna Shore basically owns this style of music. It’s kind of a shame because other bands that try to iterate upon it will end up getting written off as copycats. Which yeah, I’m kind of over the Lorna Shore sound right now, but Mental Cruelty is a solid act that should get more recognition.