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Chromatic: The Crossroads of Color and Music

Judgement Day: String-Metal Trio Commissions Intricate, Improvised Art to Match its Music

With its 2010 magnum opus, Peacocks / Pink Monsters, Bay Area string-metal trio Judgement Day sought a visual aesthetic that was as spontaneous and limitless as its music.

This Week's Best Albums: October 18, 2011 Online Exclusive

My Brightest Diamond: All Things Will Unwind
Rob Crow: He Thinks He's People
Freestyle Fellowship: The Promise
Electro Quarterstaff: Aykroyd
Sandro Perri: Impossible Spaces
Sahy Uhns: An Intolerant Disdain of Underlings
This Week's Best Albums: October 11, 2011 Online Exclusive

Björk: Biophilia
Icebird: The Abandoned Lullaby
Mayer Hawthorne: How Do You Do?
São Paulo Underground: Trés Cabeças Loucuras
Myrath: Tales of the Sands
Primus: Back on the Bike, Going "Green" Online Exclusive

With its first full-length album in a dozen years, oddball rock trio Primus displays a new-found vigor thanks to newly returned drummer Jay Lane -- while again peppering its buoyant music with subtly deep subject matter.
This Week's Best Albums: October 4, 2011 Online Exclusive

DJ Shadow: The Less You Know, The Better
Feist: Metals
Dessa: Castor, The Twin
Talkdemonic: Ruins
Are Mokkelbost & KILLL: A New Meaning to "Art Metal" Chromatic

In an experimental mass of metal riffs and rapid-fire strobe effects, Norway's KILLL assaults the senses with a frantic live display, further enriched by Are Mokkelbost's musical and artistic creativity.
This Week's Best Albums: September 27, 2011 Online Exclusive

Mastodon: The Hunter
Boom Bip: Zig Zaj
Welder: Florescence
Zechs Marquise: Getting Paid
Evidence: Cats & Dogs
Plaid: Scintilli
Holy Fuck: Electro-Rock Quartet Lives up to its Vivid Name Chromatic

With vibrant album art and videos, a live light show, and multi-layered musical expressions, Holy Fuck has made its aural/visual aesthetic as colorful as its name.
Chromatic: The Crossroads of Color and Music, out now! Online Exclusive

The wait is over! A year in the works, ALARM Press' collection of color-driven musicians and visual artists is finally here.
This Week's Best Albums: September 20, 2011 Online Exclusive

FAT32: s/t
Asche & Spencer (and Chris Cornell): Machine Gun Preacher soundtrack
Nurses: Dracula
The Nice Guy Trio: Sidewalks and Alleys / Waking Music
Chris Letcher: Spectroscope
This Week's Best Albums: September 13, 2011 Online Exclusive

KILLL: s/t CD/DVD
Das Racist: Relax
Primus: Green Naugahyde
The Dirt Daubers: Wake Up, Sinners!
Vader: Welcome to the Morbid Reich
This Week's Best Albums: September 6, 2011 Online Exclusive

The Chemical Brothers: Hanna soundtrack
Fantômas: The Director's Cut Live: A New Year's Revolution
Chthonic: Takasago Army
Roc Marciano & Gangrene: Greneberg EP
Arkona: Slovo
True Widow: Visual-Artist Trio Turns up the Drone in Dallas Music from Nowhere

Led by former Slowride front man and woodworking specialist Dan Phillips, drone-rock trio True Widow is coming up in an underground Dallas music scene that's finding its voice.