Of the four major/mega end of the year lists we put together (2 separate 2025 recaps/2 separate 2026 previews), the local 2026 one is hand’s down the easiest. Or so we thought. We don’t do rankings here and it’s way more loose but, par for course with our batting average [...]
We’re sure there’ll be something on the upcoming final Ministry recordings but do you remember when Uncle Al was railing against the machine and especially the separate Bush regimes on albums like Psalm 69 and then specifically targeting GWB across a whole trilogy of records? We need more of that [...]
Does it get any better than starting off a new year with a brand new release from slo-anne? We think not. Except for all those other acts who have to compete with such a stunning standard being set this early on in 2026!
Look, we already know that 2026 is bringing the final Megadeth record before they hang it up for good and that Anthrax is finally ready to release their follow-up to 2016’s For All Kings… but we think your favorite Thrash record of the year is already here. Because in just [...]
Ceremony Shadows kicked off 2025 with single “Reclaim” leading into their debut LP Ascension and while we’re not sure if there’s a whole other album on the way just yet we do know that it seems like CS is starting this new year in a similar fashion with not only [...]
2025 was a weird year personally for us and even weirder music-wise! We thought we had our Top 5 of the year locked down by June then something rolled up to our digital inbox in late summer and completely floored us/threw off the early ending we thought we had for [...]
