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Singles! Casket Rats, “Whiskey Queen”

We’d say that you’re missing out if you haven’t seen Boston’s Casket Rats live in the wild yet but after hearing new single “Whiskey Queen” we’d also go so far as to say that this is as pretty close to the live experience you might get from a recorded venture [...]

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Wrought Iron Hex Wreak Noisy Havoc With New Batch Of Raucous Rawk On Hexes & Halos

There’s nothing quite like tuning into some new Wrought Iron Hex and being treated to the best the NYC Heavy Music scene had to offer in the ’90’s (Girls Against Boys, Unsane, Prong) but “Boston-ized” (Totally a word). Add in some early Clutch in there (The intro to “Disco Creep” [...]

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Singles! Viruette ft. Layzi, “PUNKTURED”

First! Viruette get props without even hearing a note of new single “PUNKTURED” as we’d been looking for an excuse to talk up Layzi since appearing at this year’s Boston Calling and this collab was the perfect opportunity! Second! Viruette get ALL the props for continually creating in the way [...]

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Death Rattle Deliver Monstrous New Metal Masterpiece With The Moral Chokehold

Fun fact! We’d been sitting on a review for lead single “Malthusian Dependency” for quite some time because, as it happens more often than not, we let it fall by the wayside for too long and had to move onto the next thing. But, as luck would have it, that [...]

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Glacier Keeps Summer Cool With New EP More Distant/More Violent Before A Slew Of Live Shows

Gearing up for what’s sure to be one of the most talked about shows of the summer supporting the mighty Pelican along with Austin’s Porcelain on July 21st at The Sinclair (More on that later), Boston’s homegrown progenitors of all things modern Instru-Metal Post-heaviness (DEFINITELY a sub-genre) in Glacier ready [...]

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Singles! blindspot, “Vienna (Billy Joel Cover)”

While our familiarity with Billy Joel music goes far beyond “We Didn’t Start the Fire”, having started with An Innocent Man on vinyl through Columbia House (Anyone remember that???) and also through High School Jazz Band with “New York State Of Mind” as a staple of our set, we wouldn’t [...]

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