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Bloodiest –“Suffer” (Stereogum Premiere)
Bloodiest has the experience to know a good ending. "Suffer" closes out the Chicagoan sextet's self-titled second album, an eight-track onslaught of insistent rhythms. The active ingredient is...
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Bloodiest –“He Is Disease”
Chicago experimental metal six-piece Bloodiest are rhythmic, raw, pulsating energy in musical form. After sharing "Suffer," the closer from their upcoming self-titled album, they offer a taste of what...
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Album Of The Week: Bloodiest Bloodiest
Chicago is one of America's great cities, but in terms of its various interlocking music scenes, it operates more like a small town. The different genres can all exist and thrive independently, on...
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RLYR –“Slipstream Summer”
Chicago produces metal supergroups with the same frequency that most cities produce groups, period. You've got Twilight, Corrections House, and Chrome Waves, of course, but even the nominal...
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RLYR –“Reconductor”
The borders dividing metal, post-rock, noise, screamo, and/or shoegaze have grown almost imperceptible over the last few years, having reached a point now where any genre appellation often feels either...
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Stream RLYR Delayer
Many of the greatest musical collaborations came together via blind dates: musicians who by some force physical or cosmic were put into a room together and discovered a prowess greater than the sum of...
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RLYR –“L.Layer”
Chicago-based post-rock power trio RLYR comprises members from experimental rock outfits Pelican, Locrian, Bloodiest, and Russian Circles. Following their dynamic, prog rock-leaning debut in 2016, the...
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RLYR –“Wrack”
Back in 2016, three long-tenured members of the Chicago metal community got together to form a new instrumental trio. RLYR — pronounced “Relayer” — is Pelican guitarist Trevor Shelley de Brauw,...
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