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SOM Get Hauntingly Heavy With Awake

26 February 2021 By jesse Leave a Comment

“I quarantined my ass off during a global pandemic and all I got was a SOM EP!”

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Filed Under: Album Reviews, Music, New Releases, Rock And Roll Fables Tagged With: Blood Blast Distribution, Caspian, Constants, Duncan Rich, Joel M Reynolds, Junius, Justin Forrest, Pelagic Records, Rock And Roll Fables, SOM, Will Benoit

Evergrey Bring The Power On Vibrant And Vital Twelfth Full-Length Escape Of The Phoenix

24 February 2021 By jesse Leave a Comment

Instead of boasting on the fact that we’ve yet to review an Evergrey record despite attempting to on multiple occasions, howzabout we just call an audible and start over? That said, clean slate initiative engaged! So yeah, Evergrey has been around for some time and is still one of Sweden’s Premier Progressive Power Metal outfits. If you’ve heard any of the eleven records that’ve come before then you’d know that fact to be true. Also true is that almost thirty years into their career and with album number twelve lurking on the horizon, Evergrey sound as vital and relevant as, ahem, ever especially on Escape Of The Phoenix.

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Filed Under: Album Reviews, Music, New Releases, Rock And Roll Fables Tagged With: AFM Records, Escape Of The Phoenix, Evergrey, Henrik Danhage, James LaBrie, Johan Niemann, Jonas Ekdahl, Rikard Zander, Rock And Roll Fables, Tom S Englund

Messiahavore Make Some Mighty Fine Monolithic Music On Their Monstrous Debut

23 February 2021 By jesse Leave a Comment

We’ve been known to be a sucker for marketing from time to time and, as our former header “What’s In A Name?” can attest to, a flashy band handle occasionally as well. That said, nothing gets more flashier than a name like “Messiahvore” which is the nom de plume for a Denver quartet who make some mighty monolithic music that lives up to that mega moniker all throughout their monstrous debut.

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Filed Under: Album Reviews, Music, New Releases, Rock And Roll Fables Tagged With: Bart McRorey, Brokk Dagaz, Coffin And Bolt Records, Golden Robot Records, Jenn McRorey, Kevin Disney, Messiahvore, Rock And Roll Fables

Lauren Lakis Dazzles While Defying Expectations On Daughter Language

17 February 2021 By jesse Leave a Comment

More often than not, and I’m pretty sure I’ve said this here before, if a record is out or I just miss when it streams early for the music buying/listening public then I’ll typically scrap any review plans I may or may not have had…because once it’s out there, what does anyone need my opinion for???

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Filed Under: Album Reviews, Music, New Releases, Rock And Roll Fables Tagged With: Andrew Halpin, Billy Burke, Daughter Language, Green Witch Recordings, Lauren Lakis, Rock And Roll Fables

Practice Strive For Electro Ecstasy With Not A Game

16 February 2021 By jesse Leave a Comment

What an interesting record.

And that was all that was written in regards to Not A Game by Practice upon an initial listen through late last year. And it still holds true. Michael Tapper, the man behind the beats of so many modern marvels like Spill Gold, Bishop Allen and We Are Scientists to name a few is standing alone in the spotlight as Practice and the resulting debut full-length is everything you’d expect from a man with a resume like that and then some.

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Filed Under: Album Reviews, Music, New Releases, Rock And Roll Fables Tagged With: Bishop Allen, Michael Tapper, Not A Game, Practice, Rock And Roll Fables, Spill Gold, We Are Scientists

LizZard Add More Cerebral Soliloquies To Sonic Palette On Fantastic Fourth Full-Length Eroded

16 February 2021 By jesse Leave a Comment

It’s rare in this day and age that you get excited each and every time an artist you dig puts out something new. I mean, everyone goes through ups and downs, peaks and valleys but sometimes, just sometimes, you find an artist that just hits that mark every single time so that when nary a note is heard from an impending new opus you can’t help but feel giddy.

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Filed Under: Album Reviews, Music, New Releases, Rock And Roll Fables Tagged With: Eroded, Katy Elwell, Lizzard, Mathieu Ricou, Pelagic Records, Rock And Roll Fables, William Knox

Sacred Reich Celebrate Seminal Albums Ignorance, Surf Nicaragua, And The American Way With Brand Spankin’ New Metal Blade Reissues

12 February 2021 By jesse Leave a Comment

I’m a late-to-the-party metalhead, okay? As in started my Thrash education with …And Justice For All and Countdown To Extinction kind of late. But from there, I went back and discovered the rich history of the genre and opened my ears to the outliers like Testament, Flotsam & Jetsam, and the band of the hour in this particular piece, Sacred Reich. I fell in love with the Phoenix-based outfit because of 1993’s Independent which is still beautifully brutal as much as it is lyrically potent and poignant.

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Filed Under: Album Reviews, Music, New Releases, Rock And Roll Fables Tagged With: Dave McClain, Greg Hall, Ignorance, Jason Rainey, Metal Blade Records, Phil Rind, Rock And Roll Fables, Sacred Reich, Surf Nicaragua, The American Way, Wiley Arnett

The Neverlutionaries Traverse A Range Of Genres On Wonderful Musical Melting Pot Of A Self-Titled Debut

11 February 2021 By jesse Leave a Comment

The Neverlutionaries in a nutshell is the more accessible aspects of Alice In Chains’ brand of Grunge, the Funk-driven Rawk of Living Colour with hints of Chuck Moseley and Reverend & The Makers in the vocal department making for the most wonderful musical melting pot on their self-titled debut.

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Filed Under: Album Reviews, Music, New Releases, Rock And Roll Fables Tagged With: Chris McGrew, Christopher Harold Wells, Jonnie Axtell, Polychromatic Records, Rock And Roll Fables, Ryan Hickey, The Neverlutionaries

DURBIN Celebrates The METAL On Triumphant The Beast Awakens

10 February 2021 By jesse Leave a Comment

I’ll be honest, I got way too excited when this bad boy popped up in my inbox. Hearing “Kings Before You” when it was initially unveiled late last year was kind of a revelation. Sure, James Durbin was always the “rocker” when featured on American Idol but saying that on the show and actually being one are two different beasts completely…but here, with The Beast Awakens, the former Idol contestant proves his mettle with some hearty METAL that’s sure to appease purists while treating his fanbase to a revelatory romp through the land of heavy Rawk and/or Roll!

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Filed Under: Album Reviews, Music, New Releases, Rock And Roll Fables Tagged With: Barry Sparks, Chris Jericho, Durbin, Earl Salindo, Frontiers Music srl, Frontiers srl, James Durbin, Jericho, Mike Vanderhule, Phil Demmel, Rock And Roll Fables, The Beast Awakens

BC Feature: Patrick Barry, ’20

5 February 2021 By jesse Leave a Comment

Sometimes I get requests for coverage from artists I really dig but because of one thing or another, it gets put on the backburner. That’s not to say I forgot about it because I remember EVERYTHING but more that it goes to some dark corner of my head mush waiting for an ideal time to work it’s way back into the casual conversation that is our pseudo-regular posting schedule.

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Filed Under: Album Reviews, Music, New Releases, Rock And Roll Fables Tagged With: Bryan Murphy, Clinton Degan, Gina Monafo, Jim Schultz, Patrick Barry, Rock And Roll Fables, smell, smell ma

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