What a shreddy good time “Bury This Heart” is! Three minutes and forty seconds is all it’ll take to hook you, too, on this marvelous slab of heaviness dispelled from Salem outfit The Innsmouth Look.
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On Where Neon Meets The Rain (Found as a lyric in “Arrive!”), Boston’s Looking Glass War continue to captivate while capitalizing on the sonic good will rightly earned from the strength of the singles released so far.
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Having just finished a rewatch of the entirety of Metalocalypse, including The Doomstar Requiem AND the recently released Army Of The Doomstar movie (Available now by heading here), we’d say our excitement for the live return of Dethklok was pretty high. Lucky for us, we timed our binge just right as the BabyKlok (BABYMETAL + Dethklok, get it?) tour was slated to hit town soon after and, despite the fact that this was our 4th show in a week (And 3rd in the Fenway area), nothing was going to quell that insatiable hunger for Nathan Explosion and company “in person” for the first time in over ten years!
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Have you ever had some new slab of music you put on and the instrumental load out is super stellar, really resonating over a slow build and just hits all the right notes both figuratively and literally only to have the vocals completely destroy the mood when they eventually kick in? No? Well, it happens to us more often than not (But for your comfort, you don’t often read about that shite in these pages) so when the title track from Norway’s Kal-El really began to suck us in we were praying to all the Rawk Gods that this would pan out for us. Especially when the press release for the 2-song EP was compared to both Dozer and Kyuss among others.
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Sometimes when choosing to review almost every single ahead of an incoming EP/LP can present a problem down the road when the actual album is ready to drop. For one thing, how does it all fit in? Will those songs only stand out because they’re “the singles”? Or will the release sound disjointed when filled with songs already out to the masses which could potentially swallow up what’s in between those tentpoles? Luckily, when it comes to Boston’s Paper Tigers, though, that whole argument/point is moot as the strength of each and every song on debut release Charmer stands out regardless of if it was released previously. And together, they make for one unstoppable record.
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We don’t say this too often but you’re not likely to hear anything quite like the music that downtalker makes. Following up on Post Junkie Selfish Millennial Single Father Field Notes (Which you can check out on Bandcamp here) comes two fresh new singles from the Boston-based trio which, far and away, might be the best songs downtalker have released to date. And don’t get us wrong, what’s come before from the multi-talented multi-instrumentalists Matt Freake, Darin Thompson, and Justin Mantell is tops (The long-titled release from August that we just mentioned is profound!) but what’s next is something really special.
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While we haven’t had the opportunity to cover all the singles leading up to Boston/NYC hybrid outfit Eldridge Rodriguez’s latest LP, we’ve definitely covered a LOT. So diving into Atrophy is like a trip down memory lane to an extent with some of its’ 12 tracks appearing as far back as 2021 (“Megalodon” as part of the “Alice Drills” release) and others debuting throughout 2022 (“Have I Gone Too Far”, “Scars in the Vein”) for a familiar affair that’s more focused than ever before.
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Truth be told, we fell out of love with Baroness a little while back. No particular reason. No one did anything wrong. Our relationship had just run its’ course. Let’s just call it a “conscious uncoupling” and leave it at that, okay? Cut to last year while attending a Lamb Of God show that featured a stacked line up which included, you guessed it, Baroness. Maybe it was because they were opening for bands like LOG and Killswitch Engage but that set was a fiery reminder of what initially tuned us into the Philadelphia-based quartet so when a new album was announced earlier this year our interest was pretty, pretty piqued. And upon hearing said new record let’s just say that if you, like us, had left the Baroness fold, now might be the time to rethink that decision.
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Asking Alexandria is having a banner 2023 with album number eight not only out and in yer earholes currently but also embodying kind of everything that AA has been about up until now, their 17th year of existence. Add in a new tour to celebrate and support Where Do We Go From Here? that just kicked off alongside The Hu and there’s a lot to be happy about in the Asking Alexandria camp at the moment. But that hasn’t always been the case with vocalist Danny Worsnop, talking to us via phone from the Baltimore stop of their current tour, explaining what’s the key to maintaining the AA magic throughout the years:
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Kind of grand all around, the debut full-length from Nashua, NH’s No More Blue Tomorrows has airs of early Front Bottoms and Guster with this kind of Weezer flair for writing catchy anthems and an all around earnest energy that easily reserves NMBT a seat at the big kids table.
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