Helladdict’s new single, “Sudden Death,” doesn’t feel like a tribute; it feels like an exhumation. Here are six men from Santiago, all seasoned enough to know that pure fury is a young person’s game, offering instead the far more corrosive anger of experience. They resurrect the chassis of 80s thrash, all bone-raw intensity and punishing tempo, but the engine is modern, built with the...

"Cuentito," a single from Tone Ranger (Alex Simon) collaborating with Vecinoz (Tati Bohorquez and Giovan Michael), shimmers like heat rising off desert sand. It’s Latin-Pop, but with an insistent pulse that makes you want to move, even if you’re sitting in a dentist's waiting room. I wonder, are dentist waiting rooms a type of desert? They certainly feel that way sometimes. https://open.spotify.com/album/2JRCJZRRBjXI9IufqMHjIc?si=r3H7zIm7SdyCp3P2ESWs3Q The lyrics, drawing inspiration...