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