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Employed To Serve Make Modern Metal Magic On Fallen Star

It can be both super cool and super awkward when receiving a pitch for an artist that features someone you know in any sort of way. Be it personal or professional, we definitely hesitate to press “play”/brace for the worst more often than not. Luckily for us (We’re knocking on [...]

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Machine Head Remain Unopposed, Unrelenting, And Undeniably Heavy On UNATØNED

Machine Head was, has been, and always be a musical chameleon. That’s not even a sign ‘o the times kind of adapting (Save for the more Nu-Metal tendencies of 1999’s The Burning Red) but more a need to constantly evolve and enhance the Bay Area Thrash and Metal new school [...]

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Mission To Sleep Surpass The Masters, Bring Their Own Post-Heaviness Classic With A Spark Or The End

It’s a big difference to have an album in our possession early (In this case, Mission To Sleep’s A Spark Or The End) and another to actually be writing about it consistently rather than listening to it over and over and over some more while constantly jotting down bits occasionally [...]

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slo-anne Go Back To The Beginning With Updated squints

Anything we can do to share the good word on great music is a given ’round these parts… even when it means revisiting previously released material. But when it gets the re-mixed and re-mastered treatment (In this case, by Cade Earick), the debut from slo-anne reissued in the now is [...]

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The Birthday Massacre Illuminates on Electro/Industrial-tinged New LP Pathways

While they sometimes fall off our radar, we’re never not interested in what The Birthday Massacre has to offer (Although we did review the last three full-lengths). Like returning to the music of Canada’s The Birthday Massacre is similar to catching up with an old friend you haven’t seen in [...]

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Lo-Pan Deliver Earnest Excellence Across Get Well Soon

There’s nothing quite like hearing a new Lo-Pan album for the first time. Or the second time. Or the third time, for that matter… see where we’re going with this? It’s an experience no matter how many times you dive in and, similar to the late Torche, Lo-Pan have this [...]

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