Hang out in Portland, Oregon long enough and the scene it exudes just soaks into your being. I’ve been there twice and while the breweries and clubs are the main draw, it’s the creativity of the scene that truly reels you in. [Read more…]
Move Over Failure! Magnificent Desolation Ushers In Tiergarten As The New Kings Of Space Rock!
Space rock has some new kings in the form of Brooklyn’s Tiergarten whose brand of shoegaze and wistful rawk will instantly mesmerize the masses. On Magnificent Desolation, they manage to perfectly marry the best parts of Hum and Failure into a cohesive glob of sonic ecstasy. [Read more…]
Scour Celebrate Black Metal, Grindcore On Glorious Self-Titled Debut
Oh hey, Phil Anselmo!
You dudes and dudettes ready for an aural clobbering of the highest caliber? Forget Pantera, forget Superjoint, and forget Anselmo’s solo album. This here, Scour, is the REAL deal. [Read more…]
Flaw Stand United On Divided We Fall
Flaw has always been a bit of an anomaly in the metal scene. Emerging at the tail end of the nu-metal era with bands like Ultraspank, Skrape, and Nothingface who all added even more groove to separate them from the herd, Flaw shined with chugging riffs and a vocalist whose lyrical flow was on par with Jonathan Davis or Corey Taylor, but with an even more intense delivery. [Read more…]
All Your Sisters Create An Instant Gothic Masterpiece With Uncomfortable Skin
What if you threw The Soft Moon, Joy Division, and Godflesh in a blender and set it to “liquefy”? The results might sound a little like All Your Sisters whose brand of synthetic goth rawk shines on their new full-length, Uncomfortable Skin. [Read more…]
It’s Not Night: It’s Space Bring Cerebral Heaviness To Unrelenting Our Birth Is But A Sleep And A Forgetting
2016 is turning out to be a great year for the riffage. So far both Miss Lava and Gozu (To name a few standouts) have released albums schooling the kids on how to rawk properly. Not to be outdone by their peers, It’s Not Night: It’s Space’s latest is equally impressive. It’s also quite the coincidence that all three bands are either former or current members of the Small Stone Records roster. [Read more…]
(hed) p.e. Rediscover The Magic, Deliver A Legacy Album On FOREVER!
I’ll be honest: I haven’t listened to a thing (hed) p.e. has put out in almost a decade. I have fond memories of Blackout and still listen to it regularly but after that they became a band I wasn’t interested in for some reason. Forever! is the album that’s going to change my current status quo with the band along many longtime listeners as well as a whole new generation of heavy music fans. [Read more…]
Al Fucking Jourgensen: A Rock And Roll Fables Conversation
Ministry’s not quite over, RevCo has new material in the works, Lard will be back, and most importantly: Surgical Meth Machine has been unveiled to the masses. [Read more…]
Another Lost Year Construct Hard Rock Gold On Alien Architect
Another Lost Year make music that doesn’t exist anymore. Stick with me for a minute. Those hallowed days (Or not so hallowed depending on the kind of music fan you are) of anthemic radio rock that came from 3 Doors Down, Staind, and even Puddle of Mudd (In their early years) are gone. Aaron Lewis went country, Wes Scantlin went crazy, and 3 Doors Down went boring. All the more reason why a band like Another Lost Year is NEEDED in 2016. [Read more…]
Gojira Exits The Metal Stratosphere On Defining Magma
This is the one, people. You know when Mastodon had that record that really divided fans? That apparently crossed the line between what’s suposedly metal and what’s something else? This is the one that’s gonna do it for Gojira. It’s short (Only eight songs if you don’t count the two brief instrumentals), it’s concise, and there’s actual singing! But it’s still wholly a Gojira record. Trust me. [Read more…]
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