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An altogether entrancing experience from the New York-based pair.
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A worthwhile experience no matter how familiar you are with its many pleasures.
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Essential listening for anyone fond of trouser-ruining horror scores.
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Winning choruses chiselled in stone, crafted with love and authority.
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Terrifying yet magnificent horror from a group getting doom metal so very right.
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Post-hardcore foursome demonstrates a newfound fullness and depth on album two.
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A 40-minute master class in post-hardcore perfection, reissued on limited-edition wax.
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Surrender your mind, body and soul to the Goat…
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A shiny new vinyl reissue of the band’s most diverse and ferocious offering.
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Om’s material on LP five is more glorious and all-consuming than ever before.
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Once more they’ve turned sludge, slime and slurry into heavy metal gold.
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A sparsely-drawn exercise in restraint, meditation and composure.
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On this third LP, Torche have found the great songs to match their extraordinary sound.
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An impeccably-crafted soundscape that hints at quiet violence and unresolved tensions.
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They’re still leading the way when it comes to intelligent and undeniably brutal metal.
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The birth of something wonderful yet terrifying, and mandatory listening.
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A neat manifesto update for those who’ve not been paying full attention.
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Step right up and try your luck with the self-proclaimed Kings of Punk.
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Effervescent bursts of Ramones-inspired punk rarely breaching the two-minute mark.
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A great introduction to a ramshackle, unrefined and deliberately contrary band.
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Brooklyn four-piece stand at the edge of a breakthrough – now, do they stick or twist?
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Dark powers ultimately win out on this seventh studio collection.
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A gentle point of entry into the influential band’s sprawling back catalogue.
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Solid snottiness from one of punk’s founding fathers and his not-so-merry men.
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An annoying offering which fails to further the Californians’ garage-rock cause.
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Atlanta garage-punks refuse to grow up, roping Mark Ronson along for album six.
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A caustic, snide and fiercely intelligent statement of intent.
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Deserves a place in the heart of any fan of fuzzy-edged slacker rock.
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A label whose pestilential back catalogue has never been more relevant.
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Another crackling success for a band telling heartbreaking, indisputable truths.
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Album number 15 follows a post-millennial streak of “back to their heyday” stormers.
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They’ve ensured their own special brand of weird has never quite become the norm.
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Washington DC post-hardcore quartet’s finest album has aged well.
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This sixth album effectively runs the SMZ gamut to date.
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Hard-to-find cuts from the award-winning Canadian punks compiled.
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It’s difficult not to let the band’s crooked smile and unsettling charm lure you in.
