Listening to Afaq Art Production's new single "Bejamalen (With Beauty)" performed by Ziad Kamal feels a bit like stepping out of a chaotic, sun-baked street into the sudden, vaulted vastness of an ancient sanctuary. https://open.spotify.com/album/7GbecQZE3yVH6enRaALvLk?si=seoOwwjgS_SE3MsuPg-rxw Kamal is only twenty-four. He manages the rather fascinating trick of balancing his daily life as a Mechatronics engineer with a profound, academic mastery of Eastern Maqams, violin, and oud. Here,...

Post Death Soundtrack New Album "Veil Lifter" Delivers a Grunge-Infused Assault on Mental Illness and Societal Alienation Post Death Soundtrack's fourth full-length album, "Veil Lifter," is a 10-track Molotov mix of doom grunge, and hardcore. Post Death Soundtrack is a very talented doom grunge pair from Vancouver, Canada. They make a thick electric symphony with witchy guitars, savage bass, and a boiling pot of evil sounds. "It...