Revisiting older records can be a hit or miss. Revisiting older records and actually re-recording them can be an even bigger risk. Some bands do it and go the “This is how we play them now” route or the “This is how we originally envisioned this album” route and others, [...]
Social media is still such and odd duck. Yet still the best place for discovering lots of rad bands out there that have flown under our radar. Sometimes it’s the simple thing of a band we’ve missed liking something we posted or randomly following us on a given one of [...]
It’s the nostalgia, the familiarity, and sometimes just hearing one of your current favorite bands rip through a classic perfectly that brings a smile to your face on a covers record. And that’s just the kind of feels Magnetic Eye Records has conjured on their companion record to Superunknown (Redux), [...]
We remember it like it was yesterday. March of 1994. It was a glorious month for what would become some of the most groundbreaking (Pantera’s Far Beyond Driven, NIN’s The Downward Spiral) or talked about/divisive (Motley Crue’s lone Vince Neil-less/John Corabi-fronted self-titled outing) records of all time. We were there [...]
It’s hard to believe that the upcoming double album from Butcher Babies is only their fourth to date (Or is that fourth AND fifth???) because when it comes to the Metal scene, it feel like BB have been around waaaaay longer than just over ten years when debut Goliath dropped [...]
Our love for Sacramento Metal mavens Will Haven knows no bounds. We might sport a Carpe Diem-related tattoo and are seriously considering a trek across the country to finally see them live since, as we get older, the likelihood of WH playing the East Coast (Or MA specifically) while we’re [...]
