Articles by Marko Djurdjić

Chat Pile Were a Thrilling Enigma in Toronto

Lee's Palace, September 23

PUBLISHED Sep 24, 2023

Chat Pile is a strange and cavernous enigma. Everything about the Oklahoma City quartet — whose members, vocalist Raygun Busch, guitarist L...

Tomb Mold's 'The Enduring Spirit' Is an Unstoppable Ascension

PUBLISHED Sep 22, 2023

Death metal is metal's most overbearing and blunt subgenre. Often depicting cruelty, violence, disease and cynicism, the genre has a reputa...

KEN Mode Are Cold, Brutal and Somehow Inviting on 'Void'

PUBLISHED Sep 22, 2023

There are many ways people deal with trauma, with pain, with isolation. Some retreat into themselves; others search for company and connect...

​KEN mode Reclaim Their Crown: "We Became Like Poison — Pariahs"

PUBLISHED Sep 21, 2023

What do you do when you're a highly respected heavy act who have worked with some of the most sought-after producers in metal and punk, won...

CHAI's Self-Titled Album Is Sweet and Sticky but Never Saccharine

PUBLISHED Sep 19, 2023

Japanese pop experimentalists CHAI espouse a philosophy that they call Neo Kawaii. A reference to the Japanese word for cute, Kawaii encour...

The Armed Are Everything at Once on 'Perfect Saviours'

PUBLISHED Aug 22, 2023

The Armed are a band who, in the past, have been a lot of things at once: ambiguous, anonymous, hyperbolic and wholly mysterious. That is,...

Bonnie "Prince" Billy's 'Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You' Has Nothing to Hide

PUBLISHED Aug 9, 2023

As an artist and creative, Will Oldham — a.k.a. Bonnie "Prince" Billy — has led a rather envious life. He's appeared in over a dozen films...

Toronto's New Friends Fest 2023 Celebrated the Subversive Force of Community

PUBLISHED Aug 8, 2023

Started in 2017, New Friends Fest  — Toronto's preeminent (post)hardcore, punk and screamo festival — held its fourth, devastatingly loud i...