This week's #MusicWomenWednesday is another surprise find I stumbled across on Bandcamp. Apparently in the 90s/early 2000s there was a band called Joan of Arc in Chicago, and AITIS BAND features two of Joan of Arc's former members. Featuring a combination of dueling Roland eg101s, a MicroKorg, a fake guitar, and a bass, Aitis Band's new LP 'IV' comes out Friday. There's some cool minimalism and hooks all over these three preview songs-- psyched to hear the full thing later this week.

https://aitisband.bandcamp.com/album/iv

#indie #IndiePop #IndieRock #Chicago #ChicagoBands #IndieMusic #lofi

Knuckle Puck – Untitled

https://wgom.org/2025/09/19/knuckle-puck-untitled/

This week's #ThursDeath is Chicago, Illinois' EMBITTERED, who I have to thank @rtw for tipping me off to. This some GREAT, doomy death -- crushing and dynamic. They have two demos:

The Caveman Cometh (from this year)
https://embittered1.bandcamp.com/track/the-caveman-cometh-demo

and Sibylline Visions of Oracular Decay (from 2022).
https://embittered1.bandcamp.com/album/sibylline-visions-of-oracular-decay-demo

Both of these are full of some excellent primitive caveman death metal shit. Psyched for their forthcoming LP, which is still in progress.

#metal #DeathMetal #ChicagoMetal #ChicagoBands #doom #DoomMetal #DeathDoom #CavemanMetal #Chicago #Illinois #Embittered @HailsandAles @wendigo @umrk @Kitty @lola @flockofnazguls

Strawberry Jacuzzi - "Bucket of Puke"

(lighter than the title implies, I promise)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8j0zfGEWcb4

#music #StrawberryJacuzzi #ChicagoBands

Not sure how I missed the 2nd single/video from the upcoming Pelican LP 'Flickering Resonance' that comes out May 16, but 'Indelible' came out a little over a week ago, and of course it fuckin riiiips

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKXMltX1IiI

#metal #Pelican #PostMetal #instrumental #PostRock #Chicago #ChicagoBands #ChicagoMetal #InstrumentalMetal @wendigo @HailsandAles @BlackenedGreen @rtw @Kitty @umrk @lolipropagandabot @cory

HELL YES new Pelican in May

https://pelican.bandcamp.com/album/flickering-resonance

Thanks to @riptidethecebulon boosting @bruienne's post and tipping me off to this!!

#PostRock #2025Albums #2025Records #PostMetal #ambient #Pelican #Chicago #ChicagoBands @rtw @wendigo @wakingrufus @ookla13 @cory @hl @AlexTheAutisticArtist @54daysathome @skullvalanche @BlackenedGreen

#NowPlaying Pelican's first, 'Australasia' from 2003, as loudly as possible. This one came out 4 years before my kid was born. Played a lot of this one back then.

Missed you, old friend. Classics never die

https://pelican.bandcamp.com/album/australasia-deluxe-edition

#NowPlaying #PostRock #PostMetal #Pelican #Chicago #ChicagoBands #2000sAlbums

Revisiting the 2019 record 'Nighttime Stories' by Chicago's PELICAN today. I was a big Pelican fan years back- still am, really. I must've either bounced off this or missed it when it came out. Their 2013 one I didn't dig much, but I liked all Pelican's earlier stuff. And I have to revisit the earlier stuff now, because I think this one is just as good, if not better than a lot of it.

https://pelicansl.bandcamp.com/album/nighttime-stories

#NowPlaying #PostRock #PostMetal #Pelican #Chicago #ChicagoBands @wendigo

A new find for this week's #ThursDeath, another band I found via a flyer of a band I dig (I forget who) since both bands are playing together soon.

Chicago's VOIMATON play a great, chuggy mix of death doom that is infectious. It's tough to make a full length death metal album and make the whole thing damn great, but Voimaton definitely did with 2022's 'Profane Vestige'.

https://voimatonddm.bandcamp.com/album/profane-vestige

#metal #DeathMetal #Voimaton #Chicago #ChicagoBands #ChicagoMetal #doom #IllinoisBands #IllinoisMetal #IndieMusic #IndieMetal #ProfaneVestige #DoomMetal #DeathDoom @HailsandAles @wendigo @Kitty @BlackenedGreen

The Effigies – Scarecrow

https://wgom.org/2023/10/19/the-effigies-scarecrow/