When Indianapolis-based progressive metal project Pentrilox announced "Apotheosis: The New Frontier", I genuinely didn't expect to be handed a literal digital antidepressant. But here we are. Operating entirely out of their in-house production studio, this independent outfit utterly rejects the exhausted, dystopian sci-fi tropes we've all been choking on lately. Instead, they’ve engineered a massive, heavy sonic blueprint for celestial optimism. https://open.spotify.com/album/1lXMirFmYCFLZ8CJ8LJGfi?si=oXWz-hzbSV-i2MNymOiwDA The physical force of...

The new single “Zeeba Da Boo” from Ooberfuse arrives sounding like a magical phrase you’d chant to fix a sputtering time machine. It’s an immediate, fizzy concoction of electronic pop and electro swing, a sound so joyfully anachronistic it feels like watching flappers dance the Charleston under the glow of a smartphone screen. https://open.spotify.com/track/2t5nB4AO3dAMfBjhlm0Gg9?si=80c5c97c70a2474c Cherrie Anderson and Hal St John have constructed something peculiar here: a...