Album Reviews

A Cause In Distress Merge Punk Sensibilities With An Indie Aesthetic For Radiant Electro-Fused In Search Of Spring

Here’s another example of a debut record where we’ve covered a LOT of what’s come before and with that comes the fear that when it all comes together, the results might sound stale. While that could be the case with many a young outfit, A Cause In Distress is simply [...]

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Viruette Bring The Best Of British Indie Rawk To Boston On Waylaid in Aspic

If you were to take everything rolling around in Alex Turner’s head and make one cohesive record out of it then you might have something like Viruette’s Waylaid in Aspic. Formed in Boston in 2022, the trio that makes up this relatively newer outfit has assembled a collection of songs [...]

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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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