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Presenting our favorite songs of 2018*...

Check out this amazing track off a split Toronto hardcore band Skingraft put out with Erebos. Their side of the split was recorded at Scatter Brain Sound, the studio owned and run by Matt Tomasi, drummer of Acid†Priest (and also my drummer and guitarist...

Safe to Say recently put out their breathtaking EP Hiding Games. It really captures the balance of light/dark, heavy/soft, that vocalist and guitarist Brad Garcia has always embodied in all of his musical projects. This is just such a beautiful song...

Paul Kwiatkowski’s photo-book and memoir “And Every Day Was Overcast” was an immediate favourite for me. Shortly after its release, an LP soundtrack created by himself and Black Balloon Publishing came out based around the novel. They uploaded a track “Face Breaker” online...

Alex G is probably one of the most prolific songwriters out there currently. As this song was never officially released, I thought it was worth putting some light back on, because I think it’s the best song he’s ever written. — Nicole Dollanganger

Last summer at Coney Island I watched a sideshow performer named The Patchwork Girl perform a fire dance to this PJ Harvey song and lost my fucking mind. It eventually led me to this live performance she did, which is absolutely spectacular...

Everything about Aeon Fux is beautiful, hypnotizing and deadly. I can only think to describe her music by saying that it sounds how I imagine the apocalypse would sound, which is not to say it isn’t pretty. Her love of heavy and industrial music is visible—but the influence its had on her is entirely unique...

My introduction to Cranes came through this disturbing scene of Kiefer Sutherland playing Robert Doob in the 1996 movie Eye for an Eye. It’s one of my favourite musically driven scenes ever. — Nicole Dollanganger

Exalt has been consistently releasing absolutely incredible work and (as far as I’m concerned) have set a whole new bar when it comes to live performance. Most recently they’ve dropped a gorgeous video for their song “Deafen” off the LP Pale Light...