Dang, not to shit on “Bystander” (Which rules!) but that lead single in no way prepares the uninitiated for what’s to come on the rest of Spiralized, dropbear’s powerfully emotive debut EP. At all. Loud and luscious, the first collection of songs from the Boston quintet who feature in their [...]
Imagine Godflesh and Helmet collided in the early ’90’s (Streetcleaner meets Menatime) and recorded the greatest Noise Metal record evah then subsequently forgot about it. Until now. In our minds, that’s kind of an apt round up of what you’ll hear when you dive into the debut from Oklahoma City’s [...]
Diving into a record that’s virtually incomparable to current trends and artists is a refreshing yet tedious task because how will the people know what to expect? Will words be enough to entice when you can’t compare the record to something already readily known? The answer to all those conundrums [...]
Of course to get the full appeal of the “Intergalactic Nomads” who make up Sick N’ Beautiful you need a visual accompaniment… but any outfit worth their weight knows that there has to be some substance behind the show. Luckily, Sick N’ Beautiful back up the stunning visuals displayed in [...]
Let’s face the facts: there’s no such thing as a bad album from The Clay People. Our only gripe over the years has been consistency. The songs are there and the musicianship is definitely there but there’s just something in the execution with the album sequence that tends to drop [...]
This is the kind of album that makes us question our life choices regarding why we never got into Municipal Waste in the first place. Maybe we should start a column called “Oops! I Did It Again!” with the focus being artists we initially neglected only to find out they [...]
