Birthdays at Solo Pasta embraces the profound silence and mundanity of life-defining moments, replacing the usual musical drama with a deeply sympathetic defeated yearning.

An overview of some of this week’s best metal releases featuring Chepang, Astral Tomb, and Wizard Master.

If you’re looking for some Fugazi flavored death rock, you’ve come to the right place.

I’ve never been able to explain to someone what it’s like to experience the trigger to and the start of an anxiety attack, but I think UURYDON might have me covered.

Punk rising stars Circuit Circuit use their new EP Body Songs to rail against the abandonment of the body in favor of digital identity, subjecting the listener to a five-alarm wake-up call.

Inside Noise roundup for the week of 7/7. Check back throughout the week for quick reviews of our favorite larger releases!

Each song harkens back to a style of internet music that Ranipla obviously deeply cherishes, bouncing from electro-swing to hyper-ska to breakcore to bubblegum bass, giving us a grand tour of the digital underground.

Profound and transcendent, Divide and Dissolve's newest release Systemic stands like an ancient towering monolith, triggering deep emotions stirring in our collective subconscious.

This tech person participates in a half-hour game of tug-of-war with the vocalist, with the pianist seeking in vain to broker some kind of peace.

Like any good techno record, this one brings out your inner animal, reducing your entire being to mere movement as your heartbeat, breathing, and thought pattern sync up to the hypnotic beat.

A distinct sense of alienated non-belonging courses through the new LP Last from the hardcore band Loma Prieta as the band struggles over questions of purpose, permanence, and the will to make a change.

We expect warzones to be horrifying, but what about the eerie quiet that settles right behind the front lines? As the media turns its attention to the hardships of life in Ukraine, Микрокульт gives us a unique view into the situation on the ground in Russia.

What happens when you combine an incredible collection of worldwide folk instruments, a cabin in the woods, and a love for black metal?

Like a burning church, this album creaks and crackles with dissonant orchestral tones and ritualistic chanting that threatens to summon something sinister. If the Old Ones really are responsible for inspiring this phenomenal release, I for one welcome our new experimental sludge metal overlords.

If you’re into the classic indie rock records of the 90s, pay attention, because I’ve just found you a band that probably would’ve made one of those if they’d been born 30 years earlier.

Aphorisms consists of sparse sound collages which reveal the suffocating silence Lambkin finds himself in, encouraging him to fixate upon the most miniscule of household sounds.

I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that someone put shoegaze together with washed-out drain gang vocals, but I’m pretty blown away by how well it works for this band.

Gira here sounds exhausted, but this bodily need to step back from his intense art bumps up against his desperate will to cling to life.

This record ferries listeners from this realm to somewhere much, much stranger. Between wailing saxophones, cut-up noise samples, there is a Burroughsian quality that lends an otherworldly atmosphere to this experimental album.

This record from LA-based musician Elon Katz showcases the other side of post-pop, after the party is over and you wake up the next morning alone on the bathroom floor.