Lav's Music Corner

As the year comes closer and closer to an end and the criteria for my rapid fire reviews narrows, it's always worth looking for outside the box categorization to put together some of the records I want to talk about the most. That's what we're doing here with 5 albums I didn't get the chance to review earlier this year, but ones that have landed high up on RateYourMusic's 2024 charts, and therefore have dominated quite a bit of music discourse online. Surely fans will be civil in reaction to all of my opinions on these various records, right? The New Sound  - Geordie Greep Somehow with the release of his new solo album, Black Midi frontman Geordie Greep managed to supersede the discoursing power of his post-punk outfit's entire 5+ year run with just one record. That's because The New Sound  has been a WILDY divisive record online. It's hard to knock the instrumentation and production anywhere on the record. Talented musicians weave a dizzying array of vi...

Before we even get into this, I know. Most metalheads definition of experimental metal is some of the most crushing, brutal and flat out disturbing hardcore and extreme musical genres humans have ever conceived. Keep in mind that I'm an indie dweeb more obsessed with ambient tones than layers of throttling satanic harrowing shrills. I love genres like extreme death metal and technical hardcore as much as any good critic but what I mean here is more of a sense of metal crossing over with non-metal experimental music. Ambient, electronica and even indie and psychedelia are included between the shredding riffs and screamed vocals on this list. At some point in the future I will surely cover the new Corpsegrinder solo album don't you worry, but for now here are some alternative and experimental metal albums that have grabbed my attention recently.  Enemy Of Love  - The Body & OAA Ever since The Body released I've Seen All I Need To See  last year and it absolutely blew me...