Album Reviews

Lehnen Drives New Post-Goth Alternative Movement With Effervescent Negative Space

Combining Space Rawk with elements of Prog as well as Goth and Post-everything tendencies, Lehnen create entire universes within each of the ten tracks presented here on their fourth full-length Negative Space. With their latest opus, words like expansive and epic can barely contain the scope that Lehnen bring to [...]

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The Troops Of Doom Expand The Story Of Brazilian Thrash With Bombastic New Chapters On The Absence Of Light

The Absence Of Light, the latest release from Brazil’s The Troops Of Doom, is a clear-cut and concise collection of cranium splitting Metal that’s not to be missed this year. Born from the creativity and drive of original Sepultura guitarist Jairo “Tormentor” Guedz, The Troops Of Doom takes that Brazilian [...]

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Alien Weaponry Usher In A New Global Heaviness With Tangaroa

Less doubling down on the Sepultura/Gojira aspect of Alien Weaponry’s brand of World Metal, Tangaroa is intent to carve its’ own path by creating a defining moment for the young New Zealand trio and solidify their status as one of the brightest stars in the current heavy music scene.

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Bikini Death Race Transcend Eras And Genres On Eclectic Electro-Centric Refrigerator

The RIYL section of the press release for Refrigerator from Bikini Death Race mentions Ladytron, Le Tigre, Kap Bambin and Light Aslyum but if you want the whole sonic portrait then you’ve GOT to add The Network, Devo, Wall Of Voodoo, and Shiny Toy Guns in there as well. Does [...]

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Stone Deaf Enthrall And Excite With Modern Day Desert Rawk Masterpiece Killers

No other artist out in the wild is making music quite like Queens Of The Stone Age right now. Hell, QOTSA themselves has seemingly graduated to a whole new playing field of musical excellence themselves leaving this gaping hole for a new king or, ahem, queen to step up and [...]

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The Night Flight Orchestra Is A Band Out Of Time On Classic ’70’s And ’80’s-Fueled Rawker Aeromantic II

Sure there will be the inevitable Toto, Night Ranger, and 38 Special references but diving into Aeromantic II is much more akin to experiencing Genesis’ earlier days with Phil Collins behind the mic (“Domino” Prog stuff especially…or Peter Gabriel’s earlier solo works if we’re on that Genesis line). Regardless of [...]

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