Ryan Hemsworth has a history of impressive collaborations -- from Mitski to Alex G, Dawn Richard to Tinashe -- and today he's announcing a new project called Quarter-Life Crisis that emphasizes the spirit of collaboration, recording all the music while having the vocalists to come up with the lyrics and message of the song.

The Los Angeles musician Sam Gendel is an in-demand jazz saxophonist who has played with people like Vampire Weekend, Perfume Genius, and Moses Sumney. (He recently assisted on Sumney's cover of T-Pain's "Can't Believe It" from our very own Save Stereogum: An '00s Covers Comp.) But there's no saxophone on Gendel's new solo album DRM.

Swedish prog metallers Pain Of Salvation push their shapeshifting vision to new heights on Panther

The distinctive corpse paint stylings of Abbath, King Diamond and assorted members of Mayhem have been converted into soap designs – oh, and don't forget your pentagram soap dish

Before he put together Skindred, Benji Webbe was starting a ragga-metal revolution with Dub War