Band: SHOGANAI
For fans of: Nuvolascura, Rainmaking, Lord Snow, Mahria, Sonagi, Crowning, Blind Girls, Rayleigh, Heavenly Blue, Terrible As The Dawn, Mondrary, New Forms, and Roman Candle.
Genres: Punk / Post-Hardcore / Metallic Hardcore / Mathcore / Emo / Screamo / Skramz
For fans of: Nuvolascura, Rainmaking, Lord Snow, Mahria, Sonagi, Crowning, Blind Girls, Rayleigh, Heavenly Blue, Terrible As The Dawn, Mondrary, New Forms, and Roman Candle.
Genres: Punk / Post-Hardcore / Metallic Hardcore / Mathcore / Emo / Screamo / Skramz
Related artists: ?.
Country: Austin, Texas USA
Years Active: 2024-present
Country: Austin, Texas USA
Years Active: 2024-present
Label(s): Self Released
Holy shit, SHOGANAI seems to have come outta nowhere. Perhaps it has something to do with screamo poppin' the fuck off all over the world (but especially in the US, it seems) or maybe the band lay dormant and this debut EP is their hello. In the end it is of no consequence for this made my brain mush. It's complex, it's beautiful, it's cathartic, and hot damn those vocals fuckin' rock. 'Shoganai' cracked my top 5 EPs of 2024 within a few listens and remains a daily routine for me.
The self-titled EP houses five tracks of all-killer-no-filler jams (although I must admit I fuck hardest with the final three songs), perhaps bringing Nuvolascura (but slightly less techy), Roman Candle, and Heavenly Blue to mind. The searing vocals appear consistently but really hook on tracks "Carving" and "How I Know You're Gone", while the instrumental highlights occur on "Names and Dates in Concrete" (yummy bowl of noodles) and "Carving" again (reminds me of Crowning's unique style in the first half and a bit o' Capsule in the second). But holy smokes does "Paradise" go the hardest, taking my head clean off at the 30-second mark.
Holy shit, SHOGANAI seems to have come outta nowhere. Perhaps it has something to do with screamo poppin' the fuck off all over the world (but especially in the US, it seems) or maybe the band lay dormant and this debut EP is their hello. In the end it is of no consequence for this made my brain mush. It's complex, it's beautiful, it's cathartic, and hot damn those vocals fuckin' rock. 'Shoganai' cracked my top 5 EPs of 2024 within a few listens and remains a daily routine for me.
The ability of the band to make their first five songs this slay this much speaks volumes of the caliber of the members, and any subsequent material will be salivated over by myself and likely lots of others, cuz this is ridiculously good.
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DISCOGRAPHY
2024 - Shoganai digital EP (stream/buy here)
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(2024) SHOGANAI - "Carving" (from 'Soganai')
(2024) SHOGANAI - "How I Know You're Gone" (from 'Soganai')
(2024) SHOGANAI - "Paradise" (from 'Soganai')
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