Album Reviews

Hinayana Shatter Expectations With The Haunting Heaviness Of Shatter And Fall

Whenever we add an anticipated album to our fabled (Get it???) upcoming year preview list, most times without hearing a single note of new music, there’s always this slight bit of trepidation that maybe the band we’ve put our faith in won’t deliver (While some just don’t actually deliver a [...]

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Ripple Music Reintroduce You To The Mighty Hermano With New Remixed And Remastered Version Of Debut …Only A Suggestion

As HUGE Kyuss fans we’ll take our lumps and admit that initially we didn’t give …Only A Suggestion, the debut album from vocalist John Garcia’s Hermano, the time of day it deserved. Sure, we gobbled up all the post-Kyuss offerings from all the ex-members with Garcia, in particular, having an [...]

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2023 Rumble Champs ONE FALL Close Out Banner Year With The Next Batch Of Your New Favorite Punk Rawk Anthems On Spine First!

We cannot get over how rad the new EP from Salem’s ONE FALL is. Actually, scratch that. We can get over it. You know why? Because ONE FALL ain’t your 2023 Rock & Roll Rumble winnahs on a lark. They earned it from releases and performances like this and if [...]

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Venera Craft A Haunting Score For The Scariest Movie Never Made On Debut Full-Length

We were going to start this whole thing talking about the parts of a whole of Korn and how diverse the different players are outside of their day job as Nu-Metal giants. But who wants to read all that? What we will say is that coming from the band that [...]

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Kingshot Deliver A Cohesive Multi-Genre Experience On Latest

A bit of an outlier simply because no one in the area is really doing this type of music right now, Boston’s Kingshot excel with their latest which is a grand collection of sonic gems that encompass a range of eras under one cohesive banner of Alternative Hard Rawk.

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The Jacklights Celebrate Spooky SZN With The Sizzling Sounds Of Final Girl

If the lead single and title track off The Jacklights upcoming new EP had you on the edge of your seat as if you were watching a new Horror movie, then you weren’t the only one! Except this was an edge-of-your-seat in anticipation kind of thing and not one of [...]

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