In 2020, Oklahoma City musician James Hammontree released his first full-length as Black Magnet. Hallucination Scene uses all the best parts of 90s industrial metal—even the radio-friendly sounds—to make something that hovers between synthetic and organic. Through their layers of synths, drum machines, and ugly noise, his songs remain as catchy as the best work […]
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Portrayal of Guilt’s Christfucker is just as gnarly as the title suggests
Look, if you’re going to name your record Christfucker, it better be next-level gnarly. Otherwise, what’s the point? Luckily the second LP of the year from Austin’s Portrayal of Guilt is next-level gnarly and then some. The band leaned toward screamo from their formation in 2017 till their second album, January’s We Are Always Alone, […]
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Time to jump on the Bandcamp stuff you’ve been waiting to buy
Once again, it’s “Bandcamp day”—when almost all your money goes to the artists and labels you want to support.
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Noise-rock masters Uniform get even bigger, better, and darker on Shame
I’ve spent a lot of Reader ink gushing about Uniform and the previous projects of their members. With the release of their new fourth full-length, Shame, the band’s sonic assault continues—and so does my adoration. Formed in 2014 as a wildly abrasive industrial-noise-rock-drone duo of vocalist Michael Berdan (formerly of unreal noisecore trio Drunkdriver) and […]
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Two of modern heavy music’s most prolific acts, Boris and Uniform, hit the road together
Japanese metal trio Boris have been at it for nearly 30 years, and over the course of nearly 40 full-length releases and collaborative albums they’ve covered nearly the entire spectrum of loud, harsh, and heavy music. On the band’s latest single, “Love” (the first taste of the upcoming album LφVE & EVφL), they blur the […]
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Purveyors of postindustrial noise Uniform and the Body team up for Mental Wounds Not Healing
Brooklyn’s Uniform and Portland’s the Body are two of the world’s harshest purveyors of postindustrial noise, so it was really only a matter of time before these like-minded duos joined forces to up the ante. On this summer’s Mental Wounds Not Healing (Sacred Bones), the members of both bands bring all their signature tricks to […]
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Stephanie Marlow of Indie Publicity on a brutal band with a soft spot for pitties
Current musical obsessions of Stephanie Marlow from Indie Publicity, Jason Gagovski from Sweet Cobra, and Jamie Ludwig from the Reader
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NYC duo Uniform sneak some hooks into their damaged industrial music
One totally reasonable reaction to damaged industrial music is to turn it off. No matter how impressively it might creep and writhe and explode, the sheer hostility and balefulness of the blown-out everything can be hard to take in heavy doses. New York duo Uniform, who happily tip their hat to Big Black, navigate that […]
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Listen to a new track from noise-rock duo Uniform
The band’s debut full-length is out early this summer.
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Extreme noise-rock-industrial duo Uniform plays at the Empty Bottle this weekend
The confrontational Brooklyn duo is back with more hard sounds.
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12 O’Clock Track: ‘Our Blood’ is brand-new noisy industrial from New York’s Uniform
Two of New York’s best noise-rock musicians team up on this new project.