SKYND is one of the more unique and divisive acts to emerge from the darker industrial/alternative metal scene in the last decade. The project is an anonymous trio made up of vocalist Skynd, multi-instrumentalist/producer Father, and a drummer that has come to be known affectionately to fans as Deadbeat. Their
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Candy Whips Deconstructs ’50s Doo-Wop Classics into Synth-flourished Electro Jams
It’s easy to do a faithful cover of a classic song (I’m looking at you, Weezer) but to take an original, break it down to its basic melody and the build it back up into a whole new construct? That takes talent and balls… but most of all, balls. That’s
Enjoy a 2006 Throwback Interview with Flyleaf’s Lacey Sturm.
Discovering new music in the early 2000s was a bit more organic than it is in 2025. The internet was still in its infancy, and bands relied more on grassroots and word-of-mouth efforts to introduce their music to new fans. Many bands first introduction to new fans was seeing those
Austin-based neo-soul artist LEW APOLLO wages war against his personal demons and unearths a stunning album.
Grief is a subject at the forefront of nearly every elevated horror film (i.e. Hereditary, The Babadook, Pet Sematary), so many albums (Mount Eerie’s A Crow Looked at Me, Eels’ Electro Shock Blues, Arcade Fire’s Funeral), and so many books (A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis, The Year of Magical
SKYND: Livesteam From A Dark Place 12/19/2022
The time is nearly here… Another livestream from a Dark Place. Attendance is by invitation only. Is it a Christmas miracle? A Q&A? A virtual Meet & Greet? Earlier this year, SKYND invited fans to watch the first and second episodes on NETFLIX’s “Conversations With a Killer: John Wayne Gacy”
ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: Northlane
If you had to sum up Northlane in a word, it would be ‘resilient’. In their 12-year career, the four-piece have weathered the kind of storms that would have seen most other bands bow out of the game without a second thought. Yet, through every bout of turbulence, Northlane emerges
Artist Spotlight: Gary Numan
May, 1979. It’s an ordinary Thursday evening, which means it’s time for Top of the Pops. Amidst a zeitgeist of punk and disco, the show suddenly appears to be interrupted by a transmission from the future. A luminous synth riff echoes out, a beat drives on and upsteps an otherworldly
Artist Spotlight: SEETHER
Since forming in Pretoria, South Africa in 1999, SEETHER has amassed a global fan base that has grown organically with the quartet’s sense of purpose and commitment spreading outwards, offering their fans around the world camaraderie, comfort and a sense of personal power. While others of their ilk faded away,
Pandemic Artist Spotlight: Love and Death
Love and Death began with the similar raw, authentic emotional honesty that drove singer/guitarist Brian “Head” Welch to multi-platinum, Grammy Award winning heights as a co-founder of genre trailblazers Korn. Forged as an outlet for recovery and redemption in a season of change, the formation of Love and Death resulted
Pandemic Artist Spotlight: Unfinished Thought
I was first drawn to Unfinished Thought around 2003 after a friend suggested the band’s debut album. Several of the band’s tracks were even played in between sets during Evanescence’s 2003 Nintendo Fusion tour. Thanks to the magic of the internet, I was able to reach out to the band