Vexed - Culling CultureLimited red colored vinyl LP pressing. The latest resurgence of progressive modern metal has arisen with massive bands like Whitechapel, but it's inevitable arena of assertive street swagger and hyperfocused brutality is yet left vacant. Enter the UK's most exciting new talent, Vexed. The crushing Hertfordshire foursome combine aggressive groove mixed with ominous threads of progressive atmosphere on their long awaited debut album, Culling Culture. If

loosely centered around composer Michael Oesterle and pianist Marc Couroux (who together went on to form the influential Ensemble KORE)

but is worried about being too direct

published as part of the New Anton Bruckner Collected Works Edition

"Mermaid" is the darkest song you'll hear all year: A self-contained fable shot through with evocative and disturbing imagery but rising to a sweeping

Hindman built her unique musical language from seemingly disparate parts

Their reappearance on Jasmine after many years of semi-obscurity will delight all who may have come across them in their youth

Fuelled by an uncertain future and conflicting feelings towards the connectivity and intensity of the modern world

DEATH ANGEL among others and playing major festivals

Valent and un-policed misogyny

Just a Closer Walk with Thee

The songs on "Hatch" are lyrically dreamy and poetic

ABHORRENCE (fin)