Starter pack for the NY / NJ / PA DIY music scene. Pass it on! Reply below if you'd like to be added. go.bsky.app/GnJLah1

Sabbathy basement folk with brilliant, scathingly funny lyrics, a fairly serious undermining of civilization and the war gods. Crafted, catchy songs with banjo, guitars clean and dirty. The Satanic Woody Guthrie. @buzzarddoomfolk.bsky.social buzzarddoomfolk.bandcamp.com/album/doom-f...

Haunting fingerpicking with powerful, smoky female vocals. Folk blues with Mediterranean whispers. A mastery of mood and feel. Rolling rhythms and soulful vocals keep a light aloft through the darkness. @cruelnaturerecs.bsky.social cruelnaturerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/songs-...

World Eaters “Hounds of Blood” Mid-tempo war metal. With an admirable ethos (“chainaxe to the face of bigotry”) and crushing tank riffage, they’re innovating in the Bolt Thrower lineage. Enjoyable originality alongside the colossal breakdowns here. ampwall.com/a/worldeater... on @ampwall.com!

Holy fkn shit this is amazing. Will be writing a review for sure but delving deep right now.

Do you like forcing electronic devices to make unusual sounds? Then you might belong on this list! Please comment or repost if you'd like to be added! #signalboost #synth #experimental #industrial #synthsky #musicians #noise #abstact

Arty industrial black metal played with a freedom from convention & genre arising from desperation. The sound of the crushed hopes of another lost generation of young Hungarians. Excising the epigenetics of oppression through harsh noise and metallic cacophony. varsas.bandcamp.com/album/pulz-l...

Check the new track ‘Volutes’ by Toru. Album out 14 Jan Pre-order now cruelnaturerecordings.bandcamp.com/track/volutes

We love @ampwall.com's mission to build a music platform that builds community not competition. Just uploaded our new EP "Inner and Outer Terrain" there. Dark, adventurous post-punk. Kill two birds with one stone and check us out and Ampwall too! ampwall.com/a/hollowhowl...

@hollowhowlband.bsky.social aren't black metal, they aren't extreme metal, they aren't metal at all. However, they are fucking brilliant. Join me on the BMA as I explain why. #rock #alternative #metalsky #music

A playlist of desolate landscapes and shadowy characters, stormy rockers and grim dirges. Check it out at open.spotify.com/playlist/2QG... Bluesky musicians or labels, please submit via chat or comment if you fit the vibe (lovely if you listen and save first). 🙏

Proof that Slayer is folk music and thrash metal will live forever. Political punk metal from Boston with blistering riffs and sick breakdowns. Nausea vibe from the female lead vocals. Strum on folk musicians of the apocalypse! lifelessdark.bandcamp.com/album/forces...

The mix of Siouxsie & The Banshees and Ennio Morricone you always dreamed of. New single out now! Thanks so much for checking it out. open.spotify.com/track/4tItuN...

Any recommendations for contemporary world roots music with a minor feel and interesting rhythms? Looking for something darker, not cafe music. Like Tinariwen, old Warsaw Village Band, Thrax Punks, Huun Huur Tu, Son de la Frontera, something with a bit of spirit... Thanks all!

Review: “Songs of Horaman” A universe of melodic and rhythmic embellishments around a droning center on the Kurdish tanbur. If you like halftones, drones, and crazy fingerstyle strumming, this is for you. Plus the occasional drumming is heavy AF. radiokhiyaban.bandcamp.com/album/songs-...

Wayfarer “American Gothic” An incredible fusion of black metal and evocative folk, summoning ghosts of the High Plains past, with lyrics to match. Beautiful use of slide guitar and mandolin. Not just an atmosphere album, it’s full of bangers. Perfect. wayfarercolorado.bandcamp.com/album/americ...

Review: Nomad Tree "I Awakening the Ancestors" Entrancing thunderous sonic landscapes with percussion and altered strings, layers of metallic and distorted sounds evoking winds, caverns, migrations, frenzy. Beautiful and animistic. cruelnaturerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/i-awak...

Ghost Wolves “Consumer Waste” Punk roots rock with slide guitar, female vocals, rhythm in pocket. Strange synths, reverb worship. Raw rockers first, mid-tempo atmospheric pieces later. If you like The Cramps... Ghost Wolves is worthy and not derivative. theghostwolves.bandcamp.com/album/consum...

Epic mid-tempo crust punk, bleak but energizing. Full of grey pools, weathered hills, & grim arroyos. There's steely twilight distortion overlaying everything. I could wander in this landscape for a long time. misery2011.bandcamp.com/album/from-w...

Whirling & rhythmic, Thrax Punks blend Thracian folk with post-punk. There is sophistication here – complex rhythms, intricate melodies, and also rawness – a willingness to experiment, to bleed into the red, to let the rough edges of folk instruments sing. thraxpunks.bandcamp.com/album/thrax-...

The tonal palette of crust punk is pretty bounded. Not this album. Swordwielder uses the entire vocabulary and writes a new tome with it. Metallic guitars, apocalyptic drums, reverb-drenched vocals, distorted arpeggios, spoken imprecations. Absolute fave. wieldthesword.bandcamp.com/album/system...

Always seeking new musical inspiration so I'm writing music reviews. Post-punk, international, folk, crust, metal. Raw, authentic underground music preferred. I will feature some of my own music from time to time as well, check it out at @hollowhowlband.bsky.social. Feel free to submit stuff.