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Stress Ghetto

Stress: Misery Fatigue

The long-awaited debut from New Zealand hardcore band Stress is almost here. Was it worth the wait?

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2018

Swallows Nest: Snag//Crowning splits

It's never too late to chat about first-rate deafening punk! Here are two rowdy splits that Swallows Nest released earlier in 2018.

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2017

Long Distance Runner: No Value

No Value is the debut recording from Auckland five-piece Long Distance Runner, and the 7” and digital release sound nothing like I’d expected — which is no bad thing. My expectations were based

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2017

Into Orbit: Unearthing

Countless bands try to grab our attention with an enticing vocal hook. Hell, even in the world of extreme metal, where vocals are frequently an indecipherable blur words and lyrics still play a

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Bonecruncher

Six Noises EOY '16: New Zealand Punk

I’m going to turn 46 years old in 2017. Yeah… me too. That’s old. Like, old old. I can’t even comprehend that number. Although it probably explains why I went

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Great Reward

Parents: Great Reward

Great Reward is the third release from New Zealand hardcore band Parents, and the album’s title is pretty much an on-point summation of the contents therein. Auckland-based Parents create explosive and unhinged

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Ad Nauseum

Broken Limbs Recordings

The idea that metal and punk are somehow more authentic than other genres of music is a myth in this day and age. Sure, there are still pockets in metal and punk communities

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Drone

Into Orbit: Dark Matter

New Zealand experimental rock duo Into Orbit have released a storming video to accompany their brand new track “Dark Matter”. Featuring more of Into Orbit’s dynamic tension and release rock, “Dark Matter”

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Attack!

Six Noises’ 2015 Extravaganza: New Zealand Noise

Welcome to the seventh post of Six Noises’ 2015 end-of-year shenanigans. I’ve been letting fly with lists cataloguing first-rate metal, punk, experimental rock, and now (in this last post) riotous New Zealand

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Drone

New Zealand Music Month: Jakob, Into Orbit, and Spook the Horses

**It’s New Zealand Music Month this May. **New Zealand’s **annual celebration of homegrown music. Generally, that involves a lot of mainstream media highlighting a lot of mainstream acts. So I’m

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Drone

Spook the Horses: Rainmaker

Spook the Horses: Rainmaker Revered New Zealand guitar bands like the Dead C, Bailter Space, or High Dependency Unit (HDU) carved indelible grooves into the musical landscape because they took creative risks. However,

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Black Metal

Tis the Season: Part Six

If you’ve been following this Tis the Season round-up, or you’re just stopping by for the first time, then cheers. This is the final collection of end of year lists submitted

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Black Metal

Tis The Season: Part Five

One complaint that’s often made about end of year lists is that it’s always the same albums appearing over and over again. Well, the two lists below don’t overlap at

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Avant-garde

Tis The Season: Part Two

Welcome back. In part two of Tis the Season we’re continuing on with the lists of top picks from 2014 that were graciously handed to Six Noises by a variety of writers,

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Black Metal

New Zealand Metal Favourites 2014

[![Sinis](https://sixnoises.com/content/images/2014/12/Sinis.jpg)](https://sixnoises.com/content/images/2014/12/Sinis.jpg)Vassafor​/​Sinistrous Diabolus Split 12″. Cover art N.K.S. Additional layout Bad News

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Caverns

Into Orbit: Caverns

Into Orbit: Caverns German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer shuffled off this mortal coil back in 1860, but not before leaving heartwarming maxims about life like this behind: “Human existence must be a kind of

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Burn

Titan—Burn

Titan—Burn Acrophobia is the fear of heights, and Burn, the debut full-length from sludgy hardcore behemoths Titan, fills me with just such dread. Colossal walls of riffs are to be found on

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