We’re big fans of fuzzy Rawk at the RNRF offices especially when done well and ESPECIALLY if it happens to be both (Done well + Fuzzy Rawk). Massachusetts’ DnA’s Evolution ticks off both those boxes on the regular and do it gloriously on their latest full-length, Curious of Nothing, which [...]
The comparisons to that band are gonna be inevitable so might as well just get them out of the way now, right? Elephant in the room: 2 of the 5 members of Vended happen to be the offspring of 2 of the 9 (Is it still 9???) members of a [...]
Look, to be clear, Amiensus’ Reclamation Pt.I which arrived in April was a stellar entry into an already dynamic catalog. That said, Reclamation Pt.II blows all of that away. Definitely our most favorite from the Minnesota collective, possibly their best to date, and most certainly their heaviest. In fact! We [...]
The term “All killer, no filler” was made for an album like Feed The Fire and a band like Seattle’s Nox Novacula. Like its’ predecessor, 2021’s Ascension, FTF is a slim less than ten tracks of just stunning Goth-flavored Post-Rawk that yanks the torch carried by Bauhaus and Joy Division [...]
With the amount of material that’s been previewed ahead of its’ release, Already Dead’s Something Like A War is something like a “Greatest Hits” because of the awareness of a lot of the new music out, ahem, already. Which is fine by us as we can’t seem to get enough [...]
Being indoctrinated into the world of Metal in the ’90’s meant that the Anthrax I was exposed to was of the John Bush variety and Sound Of White Noise/”Only” my go-to going forward and while I did do a deep dive on pre-Anthrax Bush with Armored Saint, I never did [...]
