Taking their name from a Dimmu Borgir album, this techno-industrial trio play something like if the Blue Man Group had children with Saffron from Republica, then sold them into servitude to Apocalyptica and fed them on a steady diet of neon light and astronaut icecream bars. After hearing them, one lives in fear that this might be the sound of the future.

Electrin mandolin maestro Donalbain and his band of never-do-wells bring a new flavor of carnage to the old school power ballad sound with their third album, It's Always Room Temperature. BREATHTAKING.

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Mentifact have made a name for themselves through review cliches that label them the next big thing through each album in their catalog, yet they swim against the mainstream current and had yet to find footing in the pre-internet music market. Their fifth album, the follow-up to their 2005 gold-certified On the Origin of Squeegees, incorporates electrifying orchestral work that taps into Indian musical traditions and the lyrical stylings of guest artist and coproducer, and Georgia's own hip hop sensation, Money$hot.

The solo effort of celebrated recording artist Baron Olivier (previously of Mentifact) shows a previously unknown level of maturity and sophistication that veritably drips sincerity in unapologetic puddles confessed to a throbbing, urgent tempo, then crashes like waterfowl to the prey.