SHOW ME THE BODY

Show Me The Body's fourth album, "Alone Together," is about praxis; turning belief into action, not just feeling it. Frontman Julian Pratt wrote much of it in Corpus, the band's basement studio and home, in the stretch after his daughter's birth, a period that left the record holding both the band's most harrowing and most joyous material at once.

Producers Klas Åhlund and Kenneth Blume III pushed the band toward a purer, more distilled version of their own sound, while composer Gio Escobar brought in horns that recast their riffs in the language of downtown New York jazz.

Grief shaped the album as deeply as fatherhood did. The record honors a mentor lost years earlier, and then, mid-process, a close friend and collaborator whose voice now opens the record itself. Rather than resolving that pain, "Alone Together" insists on continuing to love and fight anyway. A record about staying tender and staying ready to fight, at the same time.

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WHISPERS

Self-designated as “Bangkok Evilcore” Whispers, based out of Thailand, are bringing an immense sound to modern metallic hardcore. Originally formed in 2014, the band picked up steam in 2021 with the release of their Narok Bon Din EP grabbing international attention. Now Whispers join the growing roster of pivotal heavy music label Flatspot Records for the release of Yom Ma Lok.

Hitting the studio in Spring 2024, Whispers set out to make a heavy, intense record that connects on an emotional level. The band worked with Suchai at Sixthirty Recording Studio in Bangkok to hone in on their sound, before sending the EP to Andy Nelson at BrickTop Recording for mixing and Brad Boatright at Audiosiege mastered it. Influence from bands like All Out War and Merauder comes through across the seven songs, giving a tough as nails delivery packed with menacing riffs. Thematically, Yom Ma Lok addresses realism and human nature through a global perspective.

Yom Ma Lok opens with the aptly titled, instrumental “Bangkok Evilcore” before diving into the crushing “A Choice To Survive.” A hostile delivery is juxtaposed by lyrics of self-reliance based on proverbs from Buddhism. Speed’s Jem Siow, who also assisted with lyric translations on the album, guest features at the 2:50 mark of the song amidst a crushing breakdown. Lead single “Retribution” exemplifies the band’s ability to deliver a grappling hardcore song made for the mosh-pit while showcasing a knack for serious guitar writing. The guest features on the EP continue as Shaun Alexander of Despize and Stephen Bessac of Kickback lend their vocals to “Wisenheimer” and “Yom Ma Lok” respectively. Closing out with the title track, which translates to “world of death people” or “underworld” in Thai, Whispers conjures the feeling of descending into hell and leaves the listener with a stark impression.

Over the years, Whispers has brought their menacing live show across Southeast Asia, Japan, and Europe, and will return to the latter this fall on the Flatspot World tour. With the release of Yom Ma Lok, Whispers are setting out to spread the message and sound of Asian hardcore far and wide.

Whispers is Nitisart “Mike” Chaiburi - Vocals, Kitti “Ole” Suwan - Guitar, Weerayuth ”Neung” Klibpratum - Guitar, Tanin “Get” Meemongkol - Bass, Piyawut “Es” Thongprakob - Drums

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LIP CRITIC

Lip Critic is an experimental electropunk band from Brooklyn, New York. Formed in 2018, they have built a reputation for chaotic, high-energy live performances and a genre-bending sonic landscape that synthesizes elements of punk, hip-hop, heavy metal, and electronic music. The band's distinctive configuration bypasses traditional guitars, instead utilizing an aggressive setup built around two drummers and electronic production.

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TRUCK VIOLENCE

Truck Violence is an experimental avant-garde punk and hardcore quartet formed by musicians from rural Alberta who eventually relocated to Montreal, Quebec. Their distinct sonic blueprint blends aggressive elements of hardcore punk, sludge metal, and noise rock with traditional folk and bluegrass instrumentation, prominently featuring down-tuned guitars alongside acoustic banjos and slide guitars. The band's lyrics, written by vocalist Karsyn Henderson, provide an unvarnished, raw look at the Western Canadian countryside, tackling themes of addiction, geographic isolation, abuse, and personal dysfunction. The interplay between rural prairie isolation and the chaotic friction of adapting to metropolitan city life heavily dictates their identity. hey maintain a strict, uncompromising DIY ethic, handling all of their recording, production, mixing, and visual media completely in-house.

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