Innumerable Forms – Pain Effulgence (Profound Lore)

Label Description: Pain Effulgence, the third LP from INNUMERABLE FORMS sees founder Justin DeTore and crew, them being guitarists Chris Ulsh (who also handles bass on the LP) and Jensen Ward with drummer Connor Donegan, deliver their most powerful tectonic-shifting release yet. To be released on Aug 22 Pain Effulgence sees INNUMERABLE FORMS elevate the trajectory, initially brought forth with their Punishment In Flesh debut and 2022’s Philosophical Collapse, to a new plateau of megalithic death/doom virtuosity. Old-school early ‘90s Finnish death metal coalescing with early ‘90s UK death/doom (i.e. OLD Paradise Lost and OLD Anathema) continues to be the blueprint upon which INNUMERABLE FORMS contrive their sound from and with Pain Effulgence, it continues to become that much more towering and imposing. Akin to feeling the weight of an immense ancient stone of granite being lowered upon you, overwhelming suffocating darkness and monumental mournful triumph.

Spycker – The Very Thing We Need (Submarine Broadcasting Company)

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The Very Thing That We Need can be experienced as a temporary sonic journey, a drifting passage through layered soundscapes. Each track unfolds like a chapter in an inward-bound narrative, leaning into atmosphere over urgency, weaving layered rhythms and unconventional melodies.
The album opens with a soft glow: piano and guitar drifting together in a quiet nostalgia. From there, the grooves loop and simmer, steady but just out of reach, like something half-remembered. Moments of calm give way to darker turns, sliding gently into a dreamlike haze that moves between the familiar and the uncanny.

In According To One, piano and guitar drift together in quiet conversation, conjuring a sense of ease, like looking back on something you never quite left behind.
From there, sink deeper into the slow-burning pulse of Induce the Peasants. Its steady groove is hypnotic and unhurried, perfect for losing track of time and letting the present dissolve.
With Santi Asoke, the mood lightens. Breezy and effortless, it carries you somewhere warm and weightless, a place where nothing is expected, and everything just is.
Things shift with Of Money Use. Here, the familiar starts to slip away and you’re left in a vivid, uncertain dreamscape where imagination takes the lead.
Finally, Asoke Hierarchy pulls it all back together. It’s a subtle revival: steady and composed, like standing up again after a long, introspective drift.

Filmmaker – Dehumanization (Self-Released)

Label Description: This EP is about the overwhelming exponential data, corruption fatigue, blatant govt cover-ups, the ongoing wars, the struggle as an artist dealing with shadowban, bots in platforms, AI content creators, biased algorithms in social media, being undervalued locally, and all that off-sensations in the dystopian times we’re living.

Editor’s Note: For those interested, there is also an instrumental version of this EP as well.