Crippling Alcoholism ~ Fellahin Fall ~ Deadyellow

Boston's Crippling Alcoholism make gothy noisy rock that takes influence from '60s and '70s singer/songwriters like Scott Walker, Lee Hazlewood and Leonard Cohen, but also ends up in a similar ballpark as stuff like Swans, Nick Cave and late-period Daughters. They released their debut album When The Drugs That Made You Sick Are The Drugs That Make You Better in 2022, to follow two years later with With Love From A Padded Room.

Fellahin Fall is a gothic-industrial metal band born out of the crushing urbana of Brooklyn, New York. Atavistic yet post-human, Fellahin Fall tells tales of an atomized man's yearned escape from the Metropolis. Their debut full length album, 'Tar a-Kan', is narrated by a man in the near future who is ravaged by the change in time, technology, and himself. Tar a-Kan struggles to come to terms with his ever changing state and the crushing urbana that surrounds him. The band features songwriter Nodar Khutortsov, Patrick Reilly of Tengger Cavalry, drummer Eugene Bell and rhythm guitarist Raphael Pinsker of Fin’amor, and bassist Mark Morrill. Metal Sucks has called the opening track of Tar a-Kan, "A Fading Whisper", "billowing music with anguished, rotund vocals and haunting hooks to create something that’s sure to burrow under your skin. Seriously: you’re not gonna be able to shake this one off easily, and if you’re hair isn’t already jet black, it will be by the time this track is done. Don’t say we didn’t warn you."

Esoteric Black Metal from Philadelphia, formed summer 2020. A distinctive blend of beauty and brutality, the music is inspired by post-rock and discordant black metal, with incorporations of shoegaze and dark ambient noise. In reference to the aura of rot and decay, and reflecting the hues of earth, Deadyellow lends realization to the motifs of darkness and melancholy. Lyrics explore themes of life and death, wonder and loss, philosophy and the human condition.