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Metho - Metholated Spirit as reviewed by Mark Jenkins. The Fumes Are Real While AI apps promise to turn any dickhead into a musician overnight, Tom Lyngcoln(The Nation Blue) is sitting in a room with a pen and blank paper, grinding out lyrics line by line after listening to tracks "dozens and sometimes hundreds of times." This is the gulf between authentic underground creation and digital convenience, and Metho's Metholated Spirit plants its flag firmly in the blood-and-sweat camp. (PIC BY SHONA RUANE) Born from the wreckage of a 2015 recording session where Jay Allen (Mid Youth Crisis, Fuck I'm Dead) "ripped for half an hour" before Thai food, this album crawled from fake-band status to something genuinely feral. What started as Lyngcoln's solo Raging Head project has mutated into a four-headed beast that wants to see "fumes coming off everything we do." The title track Metholated Spirit opens like a public execution—Lyngcoln's tech...

BEANFLIPPER: BACK FROM THE FUCKING DEAD! Melbourne's Genre-Crushing Maniacs Return to Destroy Your Eardrums Holy shit, people! The legends are back! After years of hibernation, Melbourne's most beautifully unhinged Beanflipper have crawled out of their graves to terrorize stages once again. These absolute madmen got the call to unleash hell at Queensland's Necrosonic Festival this August, and drummer Matti Harrod spilled all the gory details in our epic Zoom session. WATCH THE CARNAGE UNFOLD:   https://youtu.be/U2vL0GJrW1g THE RESURRECTION IS REAL Things are getting absolutely mental for Beanflipper right now. Matti's buzzing with that familiar pre-show insanity as the band prepares to remind everyone why they're fucking legends. "The involvement of Necrosonic Festival was really the motivator," he tells me, eyes lighting up like a kid who just discovered their first Black Sabbath record. But don't think this is just a one-off nostalgia trip – the...