Tomarum / Saidan / Epoch of Unlight [Small Room-Downstairs]
Black metal’s relationship with technical proficiency is not a very deep one. Sure, there are bands whose guitarists certainly know what they’re doing as their fingers dance across the fretboard, but for the most part black metal’s tenets don’t really leave room for showing off just how good one might be at their instrument of choice (other than drums. Blast away!). That isn’t to say there isn’t any room for this idea of “being good at one’s instrument,” though, and Georgia progressive black metal duo Tómarúm certainly have a strong grasp of musicianship atop black metal’s songwriting and riff-based core. Featuring multiple guitar solos (even a huge fretless bass solo!) and dazzling, technical riffs as well as more traditional black metal blasting affairs, “In This Empty Space” from upcoming Tómarúm album Ash in Realms of Stone Icons shows that black metal can be a musician’s genre.
Whiphouse / Psychic Death / Spoonful [Small Room-Downstairs]
Tsuris / Pale Misery / Drosera / Interna [Small Room-Downstairs]
Wyndrider / Sleuthfoot / Mudshow [Small Room-Downstairs]
Neon Glittery / Katy Pinke / Aster [Small Room-Downstairs]
press-Pop matters:https://www.popmatters.com/katy-pinke-strange-behaviorNY Times:https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/arts/music/amplifier-newsletter-father-john-misty-mustafa.htmlOrlando weekly:https://www.orlandoweekly.com/music/katy-pinke-brings-puppets-and-affecting-new-songs-to-casselberry-arts-center-this-week-for-first-florida-shows-39095565IG-https://www.instagram.com/__katypinke/?hl=enAlbum bio-http://riotactmedia.com/roster/katy-pinke/
Volcandra / Epoch of Unlight / Ruined God [Small Room-Downstairs]
Shaki Tavi / Bottled Up [Small Room-Downstairs]
SHAKI TAVI Album Bio Minor Slip is the Felte debut from Shaki Tavi, the main project of Oklahoma-born, LA-based DIY lifer Leon Manson. Centered on squalls of fuzzed-out guitars, overdriven drums, and Manson’s harmonized baritone, its eight songs are powerful, vulnerable, catchy, and genuine, a pop-leaning eruption of creative force from the child of rock musicians, whose passion emerged as a small town outsider, and strengthened amid the artifice and fend-for-yourself reality of LA. RIYL: Narrow Head, Cloakroom, Whirr, Kraus, Film School, Nothing, Ovlov, julie, Hum, Failure, They Are Gutting A Body of Water, Drop Nineteens, early Weezer, The Rentals, Pile, Alt Rock, Meat Wave, LVL UP, Autolux, Dinosaur Jr., Bowery Electric, Jesus & Mary Chain, Luster
Insomniac / Nonconnah / Neon Glittery [Small Room-Downstairs]
Kinky Vanilla / The Heavy Pour / Victim Of Doug [Small Room-Downstairs]
Psychedelic Garage Rock is what you’d get if you ask anyone who knows what the Kinky Vanilla sound is. Though, if you were to ask any of the members their answer might be (with a smirk) Swamp Surf. The band evokes visions of classic sounds from the late 60’s and early 70’s all the while adding modern day indie, fuzzy, raw textures to express the breadth of their influences. https://kinkyvanilla.bandcamp.com/album/hollow-apollo
Bigger Than Mountains / The Rifleman / Chris Hamlett [Small Room-Downstairs]
