July 2, 2020
Alternative Control’s July 3rd #BandcampFriday Wishlist
Tomorrow, July 3rd, is another bandcamp Friday! The website is waiving its revenue share to help support artists during the COVID-19 pandemic — and it’s…
July 1, 2020
EP Review: All The Pretty Little Horses by Henry Derek Ellis
Metal is often ignored by the mainstream media and sometimes belittled by those who can’t see past the loud and seemingly unwelcoming surface of the…
June 29, 2020
Tomorrow, The World: An Interview with Marc Lopes of Let Us Prey
Coronavirus has stymied a lot of plans, but Massachusetts metallers Let Us Prey refuse be held back. They’ll be releasing their debut full-length Virtues of…
June 22, 2020
Album Review: Pale Divine’s Consequence of Time (Cruz Del Sur, June 19th/26th)
Consequence Of Time marks 25 years since Pennsylvania doom metal stalwarts Pale Divine began their career. The fantastical album cover features a scythe-endowed wizard-type figure…
June 19, 2020
AltCovid: The Ballad Of 2020, or How Bair Spent His Quarantine
It has been far, far too long, Alternative Control. It brings me great joy to be contributing once again to a blog that has always…
Guerrilla Ghost Releases New Single
Remember Guerrilla Ghost?? Alternative Control premiered the Milwaukee hip-hop duo’s single “Daughters” back in 2018, off their debut album Perpetually Sad Motion Machine. Now the…
June 17, 2020
Album Review: Wino’s Forever Gone (Ripple, June 26th)
The best music makes you feel something. It communicates something universal and beyond words. You can’t put your finger on it but you know when…