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Photo Credit: Earthbender Earthbender - Comedy Night / Not Your End Release: May 29, 2020 Label: selfrelease Format: Digital Length: 07:50 Genre: Metalcore Origin: Layton, Utah Imagine going to a comedy night when a very shy mic check gets interrupted by a gutturally grunted "CHEEECK!!". That's how the first track 'Comedy Night' from Earthbender's new release commences. The growled shout directly leads into a heavily rolling Metalcore riff and plenty of humorous additives. After less than three minutes the hilarious mix of Death and Black Metal, Metalcore and Mathcore is displaced by the more intense second track 'Not Your End'. Earthbender easily cross boundaries of genre, style and intonation. Together with their featured guest vocalist Garret Rapp  ( The Color Morale ) they mow everything down. Brachial force, harsh breaks, a melodic part and intense brutality - this song is a killer! The humorous style kind of reminds ...

Lasst uns eine Zigarette rauchen und über das neue Album von Totally Unicorn mit dem Titel "Sorry" reden. Aber passt auf, denn das hier ist kein leichter Tabak. Auf etwa 35 Minuten hat das irre Viergespann intensive Attacken, abgehackte Beats, wilde Variationen in Rhythmus und Stimmung sowie einen tonnenschweren Sound aufgefahren. Genau so soll Heavy Math Rock oder Math Metalcore klingen. Die verbrannten Zigaretten auf dem Cover geben einen guten Eindruck von der Stimme des Sängers. Gepresstes Schreien und Shouten hüpfen in einer Leichtigkeit über die brachiale und aus purem Wahnsinn bestehende Soundlandschaft. In den Breaks wird die Stimme gelegentlich zu kräftig gesprochenen Ansagen und in Intros wie bei "A Song for the Dead Shits" verformt sie sich zu einer leicht jammernden und dennoch kraftvoll singenden und kratzenden, wunderschönen Figur. Generell festhalten lässt sich vor allem, dass Drew's Gesang laut, intensiv und packend ist. Musikalisch präsent...

Let's have a smoke and talk about Totally Unicorn's new LP "Sorry". Be aware that this is no light tobacco. The quartet has created around 35 minutes of intense attacks, staccato beats, wild varieties in rhythm and tune, and a heavy ton of savage sound. This is what Heavy Math Rock or Math Metalcore should sound like. The burnt down cigarettes on the cover give you a nice impression of what the singer's voice sounds like. The strained screams and shouts easily jump across the heavy soundscape of pure and heavy madness. In several breaks the vocals turn into a strongly announcing or commenting manner, and when singing intros as in "A Song for the Dead Shits" there is this weeping but massive mixture of chanting and shouting which is just awesome. In general Drew's vocals are loud, intense, and thrilling. Music-wise Totally Unicorn on "Sorry" present themselves as professionals in heavy and intelligent music. Straight-up Hard Rock or Th...