So much music has come out in 2024. High on Fire and DVNE, new Thou incoming, new Bongripper, new Dopethrone later this year, new Bossk (admittedly a remix record, but still), new Sumac soon. What a time to be alive!
Funnily enough I was turned on to Knocked Loose by a mate who hates metal and heavy stuff. He’s a musician and producer and he’s a nerd for audio and recording techniques.
He’s baffled by the latest Knocked Loose album. He said people have being making heavy music for decades, everyone trying to be heavier than everyone else, and somehow that album has raised the bar for heaviness. Apparently the low end is “guttural”. He also gushed about the drums or the snares or some other bollards.
I know nothing but I agree the album ‘sounds’ good. It’s utterly savage on a big set of speakers.
Re: Knocked Loose. Saw them in Birmingham when they were in the UK and, as much as I love them, I actually think their support act, Headbussa, French beatdown who I’d never heard before, actually had a better live sound.