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Buñuel announce their new album, Killers Like Us, the third part of a trilogy which started with A Resting Place for Strangers in 2016, and continued with The Easy Way Out in 2018. The band's new material is introduced with the first single and video, When God Used A Rope.

The band is named after the immortal director Luis Buñuel whom they consider to be "the only filmmaker to first make his bones by making good on what happens when straight razors meet eyeballs." The quartet is composed of Xabier Iriondo (Afterhours), Andrea Lombardini, Francesco Valente (Il Teatro Degli Orrori, Snare Drum Exorcism, Lume), and Eugene S. Robinson (OXBOW).

Robinson comments on the new track and age-restricted video: "The disgusting way that the human is repackaged and fetishised begs for a re-rendering that captures, at least in micro, how much of being human is mired in the ways in which we are failed animals. I'd like to think that that's what When God Used a Rope is in spirit AND actuality. I'm always understanding recorded music as a soundtrack for a movie you the listener gets to visualise. In this case: the visuals as they exist are much more potent reminders that our horrors are as ever present as our loves are endless."

On the new album Eugene remarks: "The ambiguity implied by the title where it's not entirely clear whether the killers are similar to us or just appreciate us, is nowhere in evidence in the music, which sets out to say in as clear a way as possible: your death is an inevitable consequence of you, very precisely, being YOU."

Killers Like Us comes out on February 18th, 2022 through Profound Lore Records and La Tempesta International.

Band photo supplied by Buñuel

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London-based band, Archierophant, deliver an atmospheric kind of black metal blended with elements from doom and symphonic metal, Gregorian chants and heavy synths, resulting to something rather imposing, haunting and cinematic.

Legions Of Black Flame is the mood-setting opening number of the band's split EP together with British black metal trio Dusk Lurker, released via Blackwood Productions. The track is the first one to include every member of their new lineup, and it was initially scheduled to be part of Archierophant's recent EP, Birds Of Joy And Sorrow.

With nontheistic lyrical themes the band's sound leans more toward the traditional aspect of black metal, and at the same time it has the air of being quite cutting edge and downright nonconformist.

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Denmark's currently most celebrated post punk act, Iceage, visit the Tapetown Studio in Lydhavnen, Aarhus, and deliver a seven-song set. All seven tracks come from the band's last two albums, 2018's Beyondless and 2021's Seek Shelter.

In a little over thirty minutes, Iceage bring notably raw and unpolished renditions of some of their best latest songs, validating their sway as a live act, as well as their reputation for being on of the leading underground post punk act in the world at the moment.

Opener, Catch It, sets the tone in a rough, yet, moody manner, and from then on the energy remains relentless for the entirety of the session, with the band echoing something organic and unconditioned which levels between The Stooges and Joy Division.

It is almost impossible to pick one favorite Tapetown session from the great variety that the studio has offered thus far, but at heart, this one may be it.

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British musician and visual artist, Vivienne Cure, releases new single and video, Fire Flies, a dark, brooding and quite memorable cut off her forthcoming EP, Violet Ashes.

Vivienne Cure has cannily implemented properties from heavy and underground styles like gothic rock and doom metal together with more experimental ways, and her new offering is not an exception to that acute merger, still, the outcome feels positively approachable and coherent.

Thematically, the artist draws influence from the darker aspects of life alongside personal memories, making her works profoundly esoteric endeavors.

Directed by Ben Coiacetto, the video for the new single, Fire Flies, delineates Cure's love for noir horror aesthetics which mingle seamlessly with her musical style. Driven by evocative vocals and plenty of emotionalism, Fire Flies tackles "issues of abandonment trauma and self loathing."

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00_ (reads as 'double oh nothing') is an Australian band which brings forward a tough to define sound based on primal post punk and noise rock, and an experimental mindset which results to a lot of unconventionality and offbeat artistry.

The band's new EP, Ca\yptra, has recently been out through Off White House Records. In less than six minutes, lead track, claUdia, finds the band moving through passages of experimental art rock, post punk, garage rock, slowcore and math rock, a union which can only compare to the No Wave movement, although its parallels to a wealth of avant-garde and underground sounds can be fairly transparent.

claUdia is paired to a music video of similar eccentricity, directed by Myles Carew.

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London-based act, Struggles With Syntax, describe themselves with the sort of unclear term "regret rock," yet, their sound can be quite perceptibly placed next to the popularized 2000s post hardcore scene (At The Drive-In, Million Dead, Future of the Left). With irony being a prime component in the band's lyrical direction, Struggles With Syntax have just released their new album, Petrichor through Muzai Records.

Apprehensive and very much tense, album highlight Ticky represents the edginess in the quartet's sound, making perfect sense of the controlled chaos which they deftly produce through their slick merger of agitated vocals and intricate instrumentals.

Ticky comes accompanied by the most oddball workout video ever, conceived by the band and edited by Rory O'Connor.

MUZAI Records · Struggles With Syntax - Ticky

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Rising Brighton, UK post hardcore band, Chalk Hands, return with Fail, Grasp, Restore, the first single off their debut album, Don't Think About Death, recorded by Lewis Johns at the Ranch Production House (Rolo Tomassi, Employed To Serve, Cassus), and coming out on March 18th, 2022 through Dog Knights Productions.

Once again, the band's sound maintains a deft and exciting balance between post rock, hardcore and emo elements by way of gripping compositional structure, and immense sentimentality. Comparisons to genre spearheads such as Touché Amoré are fair, but do not define Chalk Hands' artistry in absolute terms.

The band describe: "Fail, Grasp, Restore is a song about forever questioning yourself, assessing where you're at, and imagining how your current actions could paint your future.

"It's hard to have pure confidence in the choices you make. There may be days in which you feel sure of yourself, but then there are always going to be days where you can't help but battle with doubt. The song, in short, asks if you feel you have made the most out of your time, with the one body you are given. You learn to live with the scars made from bad choices and you carry your achievements everywhere you go. You take all of this forward and it will inevitably take part in who you will become, so who will you become?

"Ultimately Fail, Grasp, Restore is a song about acceptance, the desire to be at peace with who you are and about learning to deal with your past in the healthiest way you can, allowing it to improve your future."

Fail, Grasp, Restore comes with a good looking video created by Doug Elliott.

Cover art by Tommy Lester

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The massively influential Failure are alive and in great form, as proven by the first offerings off their upcoming new album, Wild Type Droid, releasing on December 3rd, 2021 through Failure Records.

Second single, Submarines, is a heavy grunge rocker which keeps the mid to late nineties alternative rock spirit alive, and bears a fantastic production. Built on a striking riff and contemplative lyrics which are inspired by the post-Covid world, the new song finds the band sounding confident and imposing, proceeding towards their most substantial release since their 2013 reunion.

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Harp On is the second single from Downbeats, the upcoming album by the Brisbane-based shoegaze group, Terra Pines. The new track follows a more direct songwriting approach and has a bit of cleaner sound compared to the record's previously unveiled title track.

Harp On brandishes Terra Pines' dreampop side, in a very gentle and harmonious manner, as the trio once more draws attention to their genre fusing slyness.

Terra Pines are Kelly Hanlon (guitar, vocals), Owen Dengate (guitar, vocals) and Cameron Smith (drums, vocals).

Downbeats is coming out early 2022 through False Peak Records.

Terra Pines · Harp On

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Nashville indie rockers, Geez Louise, release their new single, Out, Out!, an energetic garage rock track which verifies the band's drawing power through its vitality.

The band comment on the new song's aim: "Beneath the angsty tone of the track lies the true romantic admiration for beautiful writers that have influenced literary culture, fetishizing thought provoking characters over dude bros."

Formed by frontwoman Sierra Torres and lead guitarist Nick Jude in 2019, Geez Louise released their first single, Solipsism, earlier in 2021, which was more dreampop-based. The band move on by fleshing out their traditional indie garage rock approach, wielding elements from rock 'n' roll and psychedelia, and making their adaptability clear, as they're still seem to be establishing the determinants of their sound.

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