Mock is a recent(ish) two-track release from this Cincinnati wall noise project. Each of the around thirty-minute walls has a tautly constricting feel, making for a nicely intense and airless hour-long ride.

There’s a rich history of ‘heavy’ rock adherents switching up and embracing the more ambient side of musical life. This isn’t that outlandish, of course, given the obvious overlap in meditative intensity and emotional depth inherent in both music that is relentlessly dark and noise-driven and music that is cosmic and ethereal. In fact, it’s in this very space that we find Norman Westberg, long-time (on and off) guitarist with original art-rock daddies Swans. No stranger to ambient composition and with several such releases under his belt, it is to this familiar territory that he has returned for his latest album, Milan. 

When Evil Lurks is a 2023 Argentine film that tries to do something a little different with the demonic possession genre. Set in a small rural town, it regards the dumping of a bloatedly infected and possessed body, which makes things a hell of a lot worse. The decidedly bleak and glum-toned film brings together elements of supernatural horror, family drama, and body horror- blending broodingly unease with moments of jarring/ brutal violence. Here from Second Sight Films- coming as either a standard UHD or Blu-ray, or dual ltd edition- is a new reissue of the film. All versions feature a new 4K scan of the picture, new commentary, and other new interviews/ featurettes.

With a title like Nothing Underneath, you may be expecting a highly sleazy/ possibly violently nasty giallo similar to the likes of either 1975’s Strip Nude For Your Killer, or 1979’s Giallo in Venice. But instead, the mid-1980s Italian film is a blend of murder mystery, lightly erotic thriller, and largely bloodless Giallo/ slasher. Think a more Euro cult focused, at points fairly vapid take on Brian De Palma, and you get an idea of what we have here. From Rustblade, here's a forty-anniversary Blu-ray release of the film.

After a number of appetite whetting, shorter releases, Florida's Plasmodulated blast forth their debut full length, An Ocean ov Putrid, Stinky, Vile, Disgusting Hell. Hitting digital, CD, vinyl, and cassette with the help of Personal Records, Gurgling Gore, and Dawnbreed, this forty minute chunk of metal mayhem captures the band's hard work after getting their recording lineup squared away. The year spent writing and recording were well used, and Ocean is a ripping death metal romp inspired by the guitar tunings of old. Using standard tuning, Plasmodulated pay homage to their influences while separating themselves from the pack, where down tuning has become the norm. Although the band aims for a "yucky" sound, Plasmodulated feels more traditionally rooted with nice jaunts into modern arrangements keeping the album fresh and invigorating, but never really descending into the vileness that the lyrics and titles would let on.

Hedvig Mollestad Thomassen is a songwriter/musician hailing from Ålesund, Norway, and the leader of the Hedvig Mollestad Trio. The band is made up of Hedvig on guitar and vocals, with Ellen Brekken handling bass duties and Ivar Loe Bjørnstad on drums. Bees in the Bonnet is the band’s 8th studio album, and their first since 2021. Stylistically, they create a fairly unique mix of 70s style instrumental hard rock with jazz, prog and psychedelia, and they have an excellent reputation as a live band, having played concerts to enthusiastic crowds across the planet.