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15 August 2026 / Experimental metal

Warforged – The Grove | Almanac

Chicago quintet, Warforged, are one of many risk-takers in the metal underground. That’s because they believe art should evolve and are always looking for new innovations. It took them seven…

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1 August 2026 / Dark

Anatomy of Habit – Paired Sentinels

‘Anatomy of Habit expect you to follow them into the tumult of life. The most challenging exigencies often feel insurmountable, and the Chicago quintet are not here to sugar-coat things,’…

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29 November 2025 / Rock

Lavisher – Aligned & Vital

Lavisher formed in 2017 as a musical partnership between Chicago singer-songwriter, Gavin Cushman III, and drummer, Benjamin Standage. Their love of space rock, grunge, and noisy guitar pop brought them…

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6 October 2025 / Metal

Motherless – Do You Feel Safe?

Motherless is a collective of Chicago veterans that can claim current members of The Atlas Moth and ex-members of Chrome Waves and Thurston Moore’s black metal supergroup, Twilight. Though only…

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2 October 2025 / Metal

Novembers Doom – Major Arcana

Chicago metal heroes, Novembers Doom, are legends in the global underground and in mainland Europe. Along with Agalloch, they might be the most un-American metal band to come out of…

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28 August 2025 / Experimental

Abhorrent Expanse – Enter the Misanthropocene

Chicago experimenters, Abhorrent Expanse, set themselves the task of writing improvised metal music. As a genre that prizes rhythmic accuracy and ritual repetition, this is never easy to master spontaneously.…

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28 July 2025 / Metal

Born of Osiris – Through Shadows

Ah, where did it all go wrong for the djent microgenre? Maybe the day its practitioners started incorporating Linkin Park into their choruses is the moment it became substandard (of…

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28 May 2025 / Experimental

Burndy – Burndy

Chicago trio, Burndy, started as an online post by Megan Emish in 2018 calling for people to join her in creating a serious and challenging musical project. Numerous performers passed…

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25 May 2025 / Metal

Misfire – Product of the Environment

‘It’s rare for a band’s enthusiasm for a sub-genre to animate them as much as their passion for documenting the divided and demoralised age we inhabit in the twenty-first century.…

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7 April 2025 / industrial

Derision Cult – Mercenary Notes, Pt. 2

Derision Cult base their musical operations in Chicago, the city that spawned industrial metal thanks to Ministry. You can also make the case for Birmingham (England) due to the impact…

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