“Obsession is a strong word,” says Matt Stephenson, Machine Girl’s founder and creative force. He prefers “fixation” as a descriptor for the way he’s steered his post-industrial, post-hardcore, ...

Content warning for mental illness. If you’ve been following the Internet underground music scene, a band you’ve probably gotten shoved down your throat (for good reason) is the lauded and extreme ...

Content warning for depictions of mental illness and self-harm. If you’ve been following the online music scene since 2012 at the earliest, with “WLFGRL” being released two years later when Machine ...

Last month, Machine Girl announced that their first album in five years, MG Ultra, will arrive in October. With the news, they dropped lead single “Until I Die.” Today, they’re back with “Motherfather ...

A new label and more exacting sound design suggest an interest in leveling up, but for the most part, the group’s dystopian electronic hardcore is business as usual. Save this story Save this story If ...

Fighting overstimulation with more overstimulation, the New York experimental band presents 14 tracks of choppy, distorted, digitally thrashed mutations of noise, EBM, and hardcore. Save this story ...