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TORBA – Soft Moon Collaborator Released Debut Album ‘II’ Fueled With Big Techno Bangs And Blasting NIN Beats

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14 January 2025


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Artist: TORBA
Who: The artistic name for darkwave producer Luigi Pianezzola based in Bassano
del Grappa and The Soft Moon touring musician who’s music features electronic tracks which pull from punk, industrial and club music while retaining a modern grit of his
own.

Debut Album: II

Torba: “It was a space to do whatever I wanted. It felt good to do something ‘wrong’,
because when recording somebody else, you have to work with the cleanest sound.
When I’m doing my stuff, I try to push it as hard as I can to do everything wrong.

I see it every day – people not making extreme decisions anymore. They record
the stuff clean, and then they try to find the tone during the production, I always
try to do the opposite. I try to look for the sound immediately. If it works, it works.
Otherwise, I take it off.””

TUTV: The world is on its way to self-destruction. No point of return.
Merciless and ruthless. ‘II’ is a most fitting soundtrack for the ultimate
event. Well, that’s what my startled ears tell my shocked mind.

Doom and gloom dominate this nasty sledgehammer of a record.
Big techno bangs, think The Prodigy, and blasting beats, think NIN.
Götterdämmerung chaos everywhere.

The last three tracks (Onda, Sides and Rider) orchestrate
the aftermath of the final decline. Game over. Breathtaking
opus.

SINGLE

STREAM/BUY ‘II’


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Portland’s Hellish Hardcore Crusaders BOTHERS Erupt Volcanically On Sophomore Album “II”

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Standout longplayers

26 November 2022

Band: BOTHERS
Who: Hellish hardcore crusaders from Portland, Oregon.

New album: II

Info: ‘II’ marks a new era for the band. Heavier and more expansive, the album ventures into the realm of metalic hardcore with fiercesome riffing and dynamic tempo changes. The melodic intensity of their first release remains, resulting in an album that calls to
mind influences like Tragedy, Laughing Hyenas, Jesus lizard, Neurosis and Born Against.

Inherently primal, their second offering is nothing short of bespoke savagery – deeper, uglier, and stranger than their first outing. Imagine HUSKER DU finally found something
to be genuinely angry about, or if you ran the first couple TELEVISION records through a boardwalk funhouse meat grinder. If you’ve never punched yourself in the throat hard enough to make the room spin like your future swirling down the shitter, this record will make you realize it’s time”.


(photo by Lindsay Beaumont)

Turn Up The Volume: If you want to survive this volcanic album without fractures or roasted pipes make sure your psychical condition is top, especially your lungs, if not you’ll be crushed by its 11 merciless hardcore hammer blows made to start manic moshpits around our screwed-up planet.

Bothers are out-of-their-minds motherrockers who know that Judgment Dayy is around the corner. It’s actually the reason why the hellish crusaders made this psychotic piledriver of a riff-roaring record so we can all go mental when the sky explodes and blows us all of the face of the earth. Sound like big fun, right? You betcha.

Hell bloody fucking hell yeah!

Buy/stream II here…


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BOTHERS: Facebook – Instagram

ARCADE FIRE Return With Epic Stroke ‘THE LIGHTING I, II’ From Upcoming ‘WE’ Album

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New striking strokes

Band: ARCADE FIRE
Who: Celebrated Canadian rockers led by
couple Win Butler and Régine Chassagne
Active: 2001-present / 6 LPs (new one included)

New album: WE
Out: 6 May 2022 – order info here

New single: THE LIGHTING I, II

NME says: “The Lightning I, II’ will certainly hit a chord with long-time fans of the band. It somehow seems deeply heartfelt and slightly unnerving all at once; humongous in its sound, but familiar and intimate to those who’ve followed them for nearly two decades. It feels pleasingly like we’ve been here before, but never quite this far into Arcade Fire’s modus operandi.”

The Lightning I, II is one song with two parts, a slow one and a fast one.
The real news is that Aracde Fire are back and sound epic, captivating
and symphonic again.

Here we go…

Also on Spotify…

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ARCADE FIRE: Facebook – All Albums