Kick it to this brilliant rock collection from The Sad Season & SikTh, Stone Sea & Downtown Mystic

Pack your bags for a thrilling rock road trip with music from The Sad Season & SikTh, Stone Sea & Downtown Mystic. Listen to the music here and flow with these new artists:

The Sad Season, SikTh-It’s All Too Loud In Here

First off, I cannot believe I’m listening to SikTh in this form. An alt-metal recommendation of mine to any fans for a long time, The Sad Season come together to create something truly breathtaking in this triple A side. Hermits Under Blankets combines ambient, echoing and distorted guitar elements with punchy drums and bass lines. When harmonic elements come together, you know there is transmission to other realms. Tungsten Lights is another brilliantly wrapped song that comes immediately after the prog aesthetics of Hermits… It’s like listening to a font becoming italics and bold immediately-in one instance. Breathing Out the Smoke could not have been better as a closer and a track. Thick bass lines playfully wrap around the guitar riff, while vocals invite you to chaos going to unravel. Come hither:

Stone Sea-Age of Tears

That opening had vintage Metallica/Slayer vibes. As each string echoes through a lot of emotive openings you have heard, there is a sinister riff waiting to tear open your reality. Easily one of the best riffs I have heard this year, it charges with strength. The bass line follows the same riff, adding another slather of sludge on the song. Stone Sea bring what The Sword brought in its initial years of formation. Grimy, meaty riffs with vocals that will sink their fangs in you the second they get freedom. Tighten the leash and look for the noose. This is a metal arrival of epic proportions, and you’re not prepared for the amalgam the world is getting. With Animal and Alien this year, we know we’ve only got hot shotgun shells hitting us with this quality delivery:

Downtown Mystic-Read the Signs

Top up the fuel, petrol head, the open road is calling. Downtown Mystic is a retro renegade, for sure, but he appeals to the contemporary air we all breathe. Life might be tough, but we gotta keep moving on. Read the Signs brings that message and more very well in the kind of rock and roll rhythm you might have missed on your updated swanky radio playlist. This is the kind of music you point to when your kids ask “what did you listen to growing up?” This has soul, power, a story to tell and the unending thrill of the human spirit. Read the Signs comes from Mystic Highway, the kind of long, winding road you need to get on to make a lot of new considerations. From the vocals to the kind of tune, Robert Allen has nailed it:

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