Rocking into another Bandcamp Friday
(Clockwise from top: Cthulhu Martini; HEARSE, Joe Netta, hetareee, Travis Orbin, Mark of the Scythe)
We’re rocking and rolling into another Bandcamp Friday with an emphasis on rocking this month. For anyone unaware, Bandcamp Friday is when the online record store and music community, Bandcamp, dedicates the earnings made on that day to waiving their fees. This results in more money going directly to the artists who deserve it.
Based out of Philadelphia, Cthulhu Martini is back with Plague Years, a self released 9 song EP released in April. This band weaves spoken word lyrics over samples from viral videos, rockabilly guitar, and digital horns.
HEARSE
Wilmington-based black metal band HEARSE released a heavy 9 song EP in January. Traipse Across the Empty Graves is filled with vocal growls, heavy metal guitar, and doom invoking drumming. HEARSE has compact discs complete with a hard case and CD inserts making it the perfect gift for any black metal fan.
Released in January, Up All Night is chillwave hop at its best. Push play on this collection of meditative loops, live instruments, and dancey lo-fi beats to get into a productive zone or to zone out. With 13 groovy songs priced at $5 you can’t afford not to.
Musician and songwriter David Anderson aka hetareee released their debut album Shitty Bedroom Pop via Lonely Bird Records in February. Written and recorded over the course of 2020, this 8 song record goes back and forth between songs with lyrics and ambient shoegaze guitar, synth instrumentals.
For Further Posterity is a reissue of one of Selbyville musician Travis Orbin first EPs. Remastered with two new tracks, Travis gives us exhilarating and complicated math rock with time signature changes to keep you on the edge of your seat. Also visit Travis’ big cartel for exclusive and limited edition merch like signed drum heads, broken drum sticks, and more.
Wilmington-based technical deathcore band Mark of the Scythe released Paradigm, a 5 song EP in February. With song titles like Panic, Apocalypse, and Hive Mind you’ll be ready to open up the pit after listening with its harmonizing guitars, distorted vocals and double drum base.
