Album Reviews

WARFIELD Goes Full Post-Punk For Glorious Modern Goth Soundtrack Across Deathrock Devotionals

As OG She Wants Revenge fans (Read: since the songs/EP before the debut LP and venturing to TT The Bear’s for their first MA visit just for a support slot set) we have been highly skeptical of what’s come in the lead up to vocalist/guitarist/keyboardist Justin Warfield’s Deathrock Devotionals full-length. [...]

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TiCKLES Master An Odd Amalgamation Of Noise That Works Really, REALLY Well Across Sugar & Plastic Plates

The intense spoken word-esque delivery that IDLES and TV Priest both have mastered alongside their combined penchant for quirkiness with the fierceness of Ohms once they ramp up, TiCKLES is an odd amalgamation of noise for sure but one that works incredibly well as we’re sure you’ll attest to once [...]

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Rat City Rockers Gets To The Nitty Gritty, Hones In On Casket Rats’ Raucous Rawk Core

One of the best things about this “job” (Because is it really a job if you love what you do???) is when we come across a band in the wild, become a fan, then find out they fall under the umbrella of some cool PR people we’re already friendly with [...]

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The Welcoming Committee Welcome YOU To The Kookier Side Of Cave With Wickedly Wonderful Debut Release

Around these parts (Obviously, the RNRF offices), The Welcoming Committee is what one would refer to as a “spoiler”. Or maybe, more accurately, a “disrupter”! You see, we had a whole slate of posts (mostly) ready to go (or at least be worked on) when TWC’s debut EP came across [...]

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Singles! Arrows Of Athena, “Abandoned Love”

In our header for the review of The Ghost Archives, the debut LP from Arrows Of Athena, we said what the Boston duo were doing in Alt-Rawk was a renaissance and it looks like that movement won’t be over anytime soon if new single “Abandoned Love” is any indication! Holy [...]

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Spooky SZN Sounds: Sacred Skin, Born In Fire

We had to do it. We had to! You listen to the kind Darkwave-tinged Electro that Sacred Skin is making and tell us it doesn’t somewhat fit under the “Spooky SZN Sounds” banner! Also, we were already late to the Sacred Skin party when we came across them early in [...]

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