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Angel Du$t began as a hardcore offshoot and quickly became a vehicle for Justice Tripp's restless version of guitar pop. A.D. and Rock the Fuck on Forever kept the songs short, wiry, and rooted in the directness of hardcore punk, but even there the writing leaned toward hooks rather than punishment. Pretty Buff made the pivot unmistakable, adding acoustic strums, saxophone, hand percussion, bright choruses, and an almost mischievous sense of optimism to music still played with hardcore economy. YAK: A Collection of Truck Songs stretched the band further into loose, melodic rock, folk-pop color, and road-worn singalong energy, while newer material keeps folding that sweetness back into quicker, rougher punk forms. The band's unusual charge comes from the people involved: musicians connected to heavy hardcore playing songs that often seem more interested in The Lemonheads, Bad Brains, The Replacements, and classic rock immediacy than genre purity. Tripp's voice is casual but insistent, and the arrangements rarely overstay. Angel Du$t's best songs feel tossed off in the moment, yet the craft is exact: small parts, big hooks, and no wasted motion.
Angel Dust is a German heavy metal band formed in Dortmund in 1984, releasing their debut Into the Dark Past in 1986 during the height of the German speed and thrash metal movement. After disbanding in 1990, the band reformed in 1998 with a new vocalist and a significantly more melodic power metal orientation, signing to Century Media Records and releasing acclaimed albums including Border of Reality (1998), Bleed (1999), and Enlighten the Darkness (2000). They are one of the more notable examples of a German thrash act successfully reinventing themselves as a power metal band.
Chicago sludge metal duo dealing in literary-tinged heaviness since 2015. Their single titles — Things Have Learnt to Walk That Ought to Crawl and Vincent — hint at a band drawing from horror literature and dark art as much as the sludge metal playbook.
Fort Smith, Arkansas thrash metal act whose 2019 EP Plague Of Humanity delivers pandemic-themed fury that proved grimly prescient. A blast of aggression from one of the Natural State's lesser-known metal strongholds.
Los Angeles heavy metal / nwothm project from the California underground.
Crown Point/Chesterton, Indiana death metal project whose 2014 EP The Weeping Bonesaw Tapes sounds exactly as horrific as the title suggests. Northwest Indiana's industrial lakefront provides fitting backdrop for their brand of grisly extremity.
Angel Graveyard channels black metal from Jyväskylä since 2017, conjuring sepulchral darkness from central Finland's lake-studded landscape. Their funereal name captures the decayed grandeur at the heart of their sound.
Boston thrash metal act whose 2020 debut Confessions of the Damned delivers rapid-fire aggression with a heavy metal edge. The name evokes both angelic and mechanical destruction — a fitting duality for their razor-sharp approach.
Sunol death metal project from the California underground.
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