Album Reviews

Final Gasp Ready For Release Show, Outings With Acid Bath And Napalm Death As Multi-Faceted Sophomore Metal Aural Assault New Day Symptoms Arrives

New Day Symptoms, the newest effort from Boston’s Final Gasp is a clusterfuck of awesome. If you’ve heard singles “The Apparition”, “No Hand To Lead” or “Burials Of Birth” already then you know where we’re coming from on the “awesome” front, right? As for the “clusterfuck”, FG somehow have a [...]

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Gogol Bordello’s Gypsy Punks Travel To Tantalizing New Sonic Territories On We Mean It, Man!

More like “What the heck, man?!?!” because holy hell what is this Post-Punk slab of Synth-laden goodness that Gogol Bordello has produced for the masses in the year of our lord, 2026! We’ll be completely honest, we kind of fell out of love with Gogol Bordello following 2010’s Trans-Continental Hustle [...]

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No Rest For The Wicked: Converge Celebrates 35 Years And Fiercest Record Yet With Love Is Not Enough

You may not know this about us but we don’t review anything we don’t dig in these pages. We tried that before and found we simply don’t enjoy dedicating an inordinate amount of time to slamming something we most likely won’t listen to beyond preparing a post. We also tend [...]

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Adam Sherman Band Fuse Elements Of Blues, Soul, Alternative And More On Solid Sorrows and Smiles

Anyone sick of the “We’ve said this before but we’re saying it again…” kind of intro? Well, it’s happening again so if it’s not your bag then kindly skip to the next blurb and we’ll meet you there in a sec? Some of you still here? Great! Anywho, we love [...]

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bad//verb Get Especially Rambunctious, A Little Experimental On Violent Year

Violent Year, the latest release from bad//verb, just might be our favorite release from the Boston Gen X Cringe trio yet! And here’s why…

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A Metal AOTY Contender Already? If We’re Talking Glasgow Grin From Full House Brew Crew Then That’d Be A Huge “Hells Yes!”

Let it be known that we had high hopes for this one the instant lead single “No Gods, No Chains” came across ye olde digital desk last Fall. We hyped it even more in our just released 2026 preview (Read it here!) after hearing only a few singles to the [...]

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