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...

Exzenya steps directly into the emotional wreckage on her new single, "Forgiven for the Last Time." As an independent solo artist and the founder of Exzenya Productions, she approaches songwriting with the sharp observational eye of her background in psychology, conflict resolution, and applied behavior analysis. Yet nothing here feels clinical. Rather than waiting on an overdue apology from a deceitful partner, this musical...