Album Reviews

Rivers Of Nihil Unleash Hell With Instant Contender For Metal Album Of The Year On Self-Titled Fifth Full-Length

More often than not, when one door closes another one opens in its’ place… or maybe it’s the “Everything happens for a reason” bag???? Anyway! Long story short, we won’t be covering Boston Calling this year. It is what it is. And in this case “it” means we get to [...]

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The Ghouls Give You A Little Bit Of Everything On Diverse Debut LP Handle With Care

“I hope this record is universal for the listener. I hope it is an album they choose to listen to while working out, while driving, on amazing days, and on awful days.”-George Danahy (Lead Vocals/Guitar) Just like The Ghouls’ Danahy proclaimed in the press release for the upcoming debut LP [...]

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Pelican Go Back To The Beginning On Monumental Old School Meets New School 7th LP Flickering Resonance

Pelican’s latest is the kind of record where we’ll gladly break our own rule of posting a review post release date. Especially with the fact that we lucked into an early promo stream of Flickering Resonance, the seventh LP from the Chicago instrumental Post-Metal outfit, and have had a draft [...]

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Youth Code Arrive Again With Angry Aural Atmosphere Across Yours, With Malice

Many, many moons ago following a particularly long lull between proper Massive Attack releases (About 6 years this time out), an EP was finally released by the Trip-Hop legends and we remember clearly after hearing Ritual Spirit declaring to no one in particular that the 4 songs on that release [...]

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Sunday Junkie Hit All The Right Notes On Illuminating Modern Alternative Classic

The hardest part of putting this review together for Sunday Junkie’s debut LP is finding words that haven’t already been said… And that’s not even because we’ve already reviewed the bulk of singles that have preceded it (Think we missed only one of the five released ahead of time?) but [...]

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Violets Put The “Super” In Supergroup With One Modern Alternative Anthem After Another On New Self-Titled EP

A crushing, cathartic slab of harmonious/melodious Rawk made up of four anthems in the, ahem, making are what it’s all about when talking up the newest self-titled EP from supergroup Violets. Comprised of members of The Methadones, Blood People and Naked Raygun, Violets is in position to pounce from just [...]

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