Album Reviews

A Metal AOTY Contender Already? If We’re Talking Glasgow Grin From Full House Brew Crew Then That’d Be A Huge “Hells Yes!”

Let it be known that we had high hopes for this one the instant lead single “No Gods, No Chains” came across ye olde digital desk last Fall. We hyped it even more in our just released 2026 preview (Read it here!) after hearing only a few singles to the [...]

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Next Up! The Rock And Roll Fables Guide To 26 Artists, 26 New Works Of Art. In 2026.

We do this to ourselves every year! When will we learn?!?! The “this” in question is procrastinate which ALWAYS results in a) releases we initially put on here being irrelevant and b) new releases coming to light and oftentimes resulting in some list restructuring. Regarding this particular post, there were [...]

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SkyTigers Combine All The Heavy Things (Punk! Thrash! Hardcore! METAL!) For The Chaotic Catharsis Of …Injustice For All

What are they putting in the Lowell water??? If we don’t say it enough already, what a scene! And the latest release from SkyTigers will not do anything to dissuade the constant glaze out of us at least as they deliver a ferocious new LP that’s concise, crushing and oddly [...]

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KMFDM Rediscover Their Inner Industrial, Deliver Dynamic 24th LP ENEMY

Never count KMFDM out, okay? For example, even as longtime fans we found ourselves a tad wary when it came to the upcoming ENEMY release as that usual excitement that accompanied an unexpected announcement of new music from one of our favorite Electro/Industrial artists yielded nothing more than a whimper [...]

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Future Finds: The Rock And Roll Fables Guide To (Some Of) What’s On The Way Locally In 2026

Of the four major/mega end of the year lists we put together (2 separate 2025 recaps/2 separate 2026 previews), the local 2026 one is hand’s down the easiest. Or so we thought. We don’t do rankings here and it’s way more loose but, par for course with our batting average [...]

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MY RUIN Return To Rage Against The Machine, Reclaim Their Crown With Declaration Of Resistance

We’re sure there’ll be something on the upcoming final Ministry recordings but do you remember when Uncle Al was railing against the machine and especially the separate Bush regimes on albums like Psalm 69 and then specifically targeting GWB across a whole trilogy of records? We need more of that [...]

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