#ThursDeath this week is this absolute BANGER of an EP Whittier, California deathgrind freaks CASKET MUSH just put out, 'Evocation of Paranoia'. This fucker grinds and churns and smashes at your skull in the best ways. HUGE contender for me this year. Gonna be listening to this one a lot.

https://casketmush.bandcamp.com/album/evocation-of-paranoia

#metal #DeathMetal #DeathGrind #California #CaliforniaBands #CaliBands #CasketMush #2026Albums #2026Records #Whittier #CaliforniaMetal #CaliforniaGrind @HailsandAles @wendigo @swampgas @rtw @guffo @c0m4 @AlfeeDee @Kitty @umrk @flockofnazguls @nnenov

This week's #ThursDeath is the excellent new debut EP 'Noxious Emissions' by Long Beach's VOIDHÄMMER.

https://voidhammerdeath.bandcamp.com/album/noxious-emissions

They call this death/crust, I hear mostly damn great death. Four crushing, crawling, pummeling tracks. Would love a full length from these guys. I've played this EP a lot already this year.

#metal #DeathMetal #crust #LongBeach #LongBeachMetal #CaliforniaBands #CaliforniaMetal @HailsandAles @brian @swampgas @rtw @guffo @c0m4 @nnenov @flockofnazguls @umrk @Kitty

Hot Ocean just put out another single, after 'Lavanderia' earlier this year. This one is 'Whole Lotta Fuck', and it's great, because of course it is- it's Hot Ocean.

https://hotocean.bandcamp.com/track/whole-lotta-fuck

#indie #punk #LosAngeles #CaliBands #CaliforniaBands #LosAngelesBands #LABands

This week's #GrindayFriday is new EP 'Finitude of Existence' by California's THIEVES. This is only about ten minutes long total and has a great mix of grind, sludge, and death. Love stuff like this. Brutal, weird, vocals a mix of growls and screams. Fantastic EP.

https://thieves420.bandcamp.com/album/finitude-of-existence

#grind #grindcore #CaliforniaGrind #CaliforniaBands #CaliGrind #CaliBands #metal #sludge #DeathMetal @vanessawynn @brian @HailsandAles @guffo @flockofnazguls

#GrindayFriday this week is California's 'blackened grind' (?) outfit SCALP's sick, BRUTAL new LP 'Not Worthy of Human Compassion'. Great anti-capitalist lyrics, riffy/killer dynamic spots everywhere. Awesome start/stops. Intense!

Because *FUCK* ICE 🖕🏽

https://scalpoc.bandcamp.com/album/not-worthy-of-human-compassion

Qobuz: https://www.qobuz.com/us-en/album/not-worthy-of-human-compassion-scalp/iximfxi3dinga

#grind #grindcore #CaliforniaGrindcore #CaliforniaBands #CaliBands #CaliGrind #2025Albums #2025Records #FuckICE @vanessawynn @HailsandAles @rtw @guffo
@wendigo @flockofnazguls

#NowPlaying - more d-beat punk. This is another one from last year, the excellent 'Endless Slaughter' EP from Apple Valley, California's NOTHING'S SAID. This one also reminds me of early Helmet sometimes-- the vocals, at least.

https://nothingsaid.bandcamp.com/album/endless-slaughter

#punk #PunkRock #dbeat #hardcore #HardcorePunk #California #CaliforniaBands #CaliforniaPunk #AppleValley

#NowPlaying - epic Friday morning wake up music, new EP 'Seen Enough' by California rippers SPY that just came out today. And of course it's 🔥

https://spyhc.bandcamp.com/album/seen-enough

#punk #HardcorePunk #PunkRock #CaliforniaPunk #CaliforniaBands #CaliBands #CaliPunk @Defiance @tangleofwires @irafcummings

This week's #MusicWomenWednesday is Los Angeles' CRYOGEYSER. Psyched to hear the rest of their self-titled record that comes out February 14-- here's 'Stargirl' from it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF3nXlx4kkM

This is some REALLY great fuzzy, dreamy shoegazey indie pop rock. Dig Shawn Marom's vocals, the wild guitar stuff, the dynamics, all of it. Check the heavier guitar & yelled vocals around the 2:30 mark-- wait for it!

#shoegaze #FuzzPop #IndiePop #indie #IndieMusic #IndieRock #Cryogeyser #CaliBands #CaliforniaBands #LosAngeles #LosAngelesBands @skullvalanche @buffyleigh @starshaped

Justin Chamberlain is the man behind California's SOFT VEIN. It's a rad coldwave project, and they have a new one out today called 'Through Blinds': https://softvein.bandcamp.com/album/through-blinds

I'm not a Depeche Mode fan- this has just a BIT of that feel (with less in your face vocals and a cooler, weirder vibe, in my opinion), or maybe Gary Numan, Coil, or Throbbing Gristle vibes sometimes. The Soft Vein vocals are kinda purposefully low/obscured too, to make em almost like another instrument, not always easy to make out lyrics, even, and I DIG it. Dark, dancy, catchy, great synths.

#coldwave #darkwave #SoftVein #California #CaliforniaBands #edm #darkwave #industrial #synth #synths

Got a great one for the first #MusicWomenWednesday of 2025. Wrote last year about finding bands via other bands- happened again. Been listening to coldwave/darkwave lately. After following (recent favorite) Soft Vein on Instagram, I saw he's playing a show with a band called Milliken Chamber. WOW. Milliken Chamber is a duo from Los Angeles. Catchy, dreamy subtle melodies, pulsing beats & synths. EP from 2017, LP from 2019:

https://millikenchamber.bandcamp.com/album/lily-of-the-valley

https://millikenchamber.bandcamp.com/album/absence

#ColdWave #DarkWave #synth #SynthPop #synths #LosAngeles #CaliBands #CaliforniaBands #MillikenChamber #indie #IndieMusic