Slow Crush

It's nothing new per se to repurpose the washed out textures of shoegaze for brutal intentions—see bands like Alcest and Amesoeurs, which integrate gutteral black metal vocals into the fold. This Belgian crew's pedalchain concoctions, however, manage to sound simultaneously heavy, soothing, and novel while evading any gimmicky genre-fusions—a modern-day MBV, were Kevin Shields to pen his honeyed tunes solely in fits of rage.