Family Garden - Dreams Beyond Control (2025)

Family Garden's 2025 album, *Dreams Beyond Control*, released on April 25 via Strange Mono, is a visceral blend of black metal, crust punk, and noise rock. The Philadelphia-based trio—Chubbrock (guitar/vocals), Ryan Flannery (bass/vocals), and Evan Madden (drums)—crafts a sound described as “a grotesque fusion of black metal’s glacial malevolence, crust punk’s feral rage, and the disorienting, acid-fueled chaos of a mind unraveling.”

Critics have highlighted the album's intense and chaotic nature. No Clean Singing notes that the track “Blazing Emerald Sky” delivers “massive and head-spinning savagery—a heaving surge of riffage that’s tank-like in its heaviness and scarring in its tone.” The album's sonic landscape is further enriched by “raw and rabid vocals,” “blasting drums,” and “wondrous but otherworldly melody.”

The band members' backgrounds in groups like YDI, Eat The Turnbuckle, Crackhouse, Woods of Ypres, and Woe contribute to the album's depth and complexity. The release also serves a philanthropic purpose, with all proceeds benefiting the Philadelphia Animal Welfare Society (PAWS).