Once a week, Stack delivers a mix of the most interesting new music on the web, handpicked by the Hype Machine team. Here's a recent mix.
LOCRIAN - Chronoscapes
Chicago ReaderFollow “Metal music often exists at an odd intersection between cathartic, lowbrow lunkhead aggression and adventurous arty abstraction. Since the mid-2000s,…” on Jul 23rd →
LOCRIAN - After Extinction
Invisible OrangesFollow “Here are all the new releases for March 31st through April 6th. Releases reflect proposed North American scheduling, if available.…” on Apr 1st →
LOCRIAN - Solar Lodge
Chicago ReaderFollow “For seven years, Chicago musician Jochy Saldivar has been releasing suave R&B-inflected pop as Partywatcher, and this Friday he drops…” on Dec 5th, 2023 →
LOCRIAN - Mortichnia
PopMattersFollow “This has proved a fantastic year for extreme music and metal, and the new wave is masterfully progressing. These are…” on Nov 23rd, 2022 →
LOCRIAN - Incomplete Map Of Voids
Common TimeFollow “11.11.22 Via Tommi Grönlund (Sähkö Recordings, freq_out): The Shivering Man by Bruce Gilbert A Crippled Left Wing S” on Nov 11th, 2022 →
LOCRIAN - Cenotaph To The Final Glacier
Invisible OrangesFollow “After seven years, the heavy, experimental project returns with a journey through a challenging soundscape uncomfortably anchored in reality's bleakness.…” on Aug 12th, 2022 →
LOCRIAN - The Glare Is Everywhere And Nowhere Our Shadow
The Deli MagazineFollow “Main Artist you are covering (it will be added to our charts): LOCRIAN Link to Artist's Bandcamp or Soundcloud page:…” on Jul 25th, 2022 →
Locrian - Triumph of Elimination
Bandcamp DailyFollow “Locrian by Jimmy Hubbard. Once in a while, an author infiltrates popular culture to the extent that they’re recognized by…” on Aug 10th, 2017 →
Locrian - Arc of Extinction
Bandcamp DailyFollow “Terence Hannum performing with Locrian. To call Terence Hannum “prolific” or a “polymath” is like calling a hurricane “windy.” Although…” on Aug 22nd, 2016 →
Locrian - Heavy Water
Destroy//ExistFollow “Based on Elizabeth Kolbert's novel, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, the new album by Chicagoan-Baltimorean metal trio, Locrian, will…” on Jun 22nd, 2015 →
Locrian - Two Moons
Swan FungusFollow “After feeling under the weather for almost 3 weeks, I finally felt up to going out and socializing last night.…” on Jan 27th, 2014 →
Locrian - Return to Annihilation
Swan FungusFollow “Wow. This was painful. I tried to describe as many of these as I could without resorting to copy/paste from…” on Dec 27th, 2013 →
Locrian - Eternal Return
Cactus-MouthFollow “… 20. Oranssi Pazuzu :: Valonielu [20 Buck Spin] Simply put, Valonielu is one of the most challenging albums I…” on Dec 5th, 2013 →
Locrian - 01 Chalk Point
20 jazz funk greatsFollow “(Continuing Alfred Tessier-Guilleme’s reports from the future. The ‘good news’: we are still here. The bad news: everything else. Including…” on Oct 17th, 2011 →
Locrian - Dort Ist Der Weg
SONIC MASALAFollow “I haven't had much to do with Flingco Sound System in the past half year, yet there is an excellent…” on Sep 19th, 2011 →
Locrian - At Night's End
KlangverhaeltnisseFollow “So wie es J.G. Ballard in seinem Roman “The Crystal World” mit Worten tut, konstruieren LOCRIAN auf ihrem gleichlautendem, aktuellen…” on May 4th, 2011 →
Locrian - Elevations and Depths
stereogumFollow ““Elevations And Depths” is the 10+ minute track that ends adventurous Chicago blackened noisemakers Locrian’s The Crystal World, one of…” on Apr 15th, 2011 →