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Photo by Jordan Mikhail Baltimore hip hop artist Noir Benny and New Jersey hardcore band Good Teal have teamed up on an upcoming split release, and have a new single out. "BLEUS" sees Noir Benny and Good Teal vocalist Reg Mason trading verses. The song is one of the most creative hip hop tracks we've heard this year. I was expecting rapping over a hardcore song, but that's not what "BLEUS" is. It's a rap song with the edge of hardcore, but it almost sounds like a cut and paste version of jazz and rock samples. There's a dizzying effect that comes with the song, and this is underground hip hop at its finest. If modern mainstream hip hop doesn't work for you, chances are you're going to love what Good Teal and Noir Benny are doing. Reg Mason says of the newest single: “Benny, Curt, and I got snowed in during a weekend stay in Baltimore. We blasted Max B, played Video Games, and made jams all weekend long. ‘Bleus’; a byproduct of that time spent...

Photo by Jordan Mikhail You know that if we're bringing you hardcore then it's gotta be something unique. That's the case with Good Teal. The New Jersey hardcore band just do the genre differently. Their latest single, "Excusing the Hurt," is as fast and heavy as hardcore can be, but they seem to add a little extra venom to their sound. Plus, it's noisier and more discordant than most, and even includes one of the shortest shredded guitar solos around. As with my personal favorite songs in the genre, "Excusing the Hurt" changes up multiple times despite its two minute length. Good Teal are as intense as they are creative, and this one will blow you away in both volume and innovation. Reg Mason (vocals and bass) says of the band's latest single: “Hardest song for me to write, lyrically. I’ve rewritten this one maybe 3 times, I want to say. I never felt that I had a proper place to talk about being a victim of abuse growing up. I trained myself to ...

Photo by Andre Hemmitt Jr New Jersey's Good Teal are set to release their debut EP, and have a new single for us all to check out. "Parasites!" fits right into the band's hardcore meets garage rock sound, but that doesn't truly explain what it sounds like. It's this heavy and furious burst of music that nails the loud/quiet/loud thing, and adds a ton of alt-rock and post-rock into the song. Plus, singer/bassist Reg Mason's vocals swing between blues and an intense howl. To me it's sounding like a more punk version of Deftones fronted by R.L. Burnside. "Parasites!" is an intense as hell song that we think you're going to love. Reg Mason says of his band's latest single: “‘Parasites’ chronicles the pendulum of emotions we go through when we have to say goodbye to something/someone we wanted. The ‘airport’ serves as a metaphor for the place we go in our heads before we leave a relationship. The titular ‘Parasites’ represent all the small...