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
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
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
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
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
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”
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
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
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,
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
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
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,
Black Metal New Zealand Metal Favourites 2014 [](https://sixnoises.com/content/images/2014/12/Sinis.jpg)Vassafor/Sinistrous Diabolus Split 12″. Cover art N.K.S. Additional layout Bad News
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
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