Album Reviews

Mission To Sleep Perfect Post-Rawk Dreaminess On Lush And Loud Post Youth

Hear me out: The Receiving End Of Sirens and Alexisonfire are the flip side of the same coin. Really! If you integrate Dallas Green’s City And Colour project and Casey Crescenzo’s The Dear Hunter into the equation you’d have a fully realized Post-something kind of outfit that’d dominate the upper [...]

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Killing Joke Is Cathartically Chaotic On New EP Lord Of Chaos

In a perfect world we’d be writing about the triumphant 16th studio album from the legendary Killing Joke instead of a new EP 7 years out from their last release of all new material, 2015’s Pylon. But it’s not a perfect world so what we get is two brand new [...]

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VR SEX Continue With The Cool On Sophomore Post-Rawk Trek Rough Dimension

2022 is producing a LOT, and we mean A LOT, of unexpected surprise rekkids in our regular wheelhouse of favorites. We had some hopes that this band called Drab Majesty might be back with a new record (And they just might with a recently announced support slot with AFI happening [...]

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BillyBio Brings A Dense Devastation To Latest Leaders And Liars

I was never really into Biohazard, okay? Despite them being on heavy rotation during Headbanger’s Ball when my musical identity was being formed, I tended to glom onto some of the more melodic Brooklyn-based outfits at the time (Life Of Agony, Type O Negative). That’s not to say I didn’t [...]

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E-L-R Roll Out Robust Rhythmic Onslaught On Sanguine Sophomore Outing Vexier

We’ve definitely mentioned it before but It’s rare that you come across a band today that sounds like something…else. And that’s exactly the case when it comes to Switzerland’s E-L-R and their fantabulous sophomore outing, Vexier. Within the E-L-R DNA there’s undoubtedly some Isis, some Ruins Of Beverast, some Orochen [...]

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Crowbar Show Why They’re Still The Definitive Sludge Lords And Still Going Strong After Three Decades On Zero And Below

In the year of our lord 2022, and over 30 years into their career as Sludge Metal GODS, there’s absolutely no denying what a new Crowbar record is going to sound like. It’s that same kind of comfort fans get when they press “Play” on any AC/DC masterpiece and with [...]

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