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20 for ’20: An Exhausting List Of Our Favorite Music That Got Us Through A Truly Exhausting Year

31 December 2020 By jesse Leave a Comment

It’s an understatement that 2020 was a pretty fucked up year, right? Machine Head was the last live band I saw back in February and a few days after that I found myself in an emergency room with some unexpected surgery to be had (Don’t worry, I’m fine now!) followed by the shutdown across the country. There’ve been ups, downs, and everything in between in 2020 but one constant has been the music. Artists have adapted with some keeping those schedules and releasing new albums despite not being able to tour behind them while others are holding off altogether. Some have done well with the new norm of livestreamed concerts and while I’ve checked out a few, personally they’re just not my cuppa.

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Filed Under: Album Reviews, Music, New Releases, Rock And Roll Fables, Year End Tagged With: AC/DC, Armored Saint, Ascension of the Watchers, Bloodwitch, Burton C Bell, Bush, Caitlin Stokes, Corlyx, Eldridge Rodriguez, Electronic Substance Abuse, Elephant Tree, ESA, Feminenergy, Foot, Forming The Void, Greg Puciato, Higher Power, Hinayana, Hum, Irist, Julien-K, Killer Be Killed, Kirk Windstein, Loviatar, Magnetic Eye Records, Metal Blade Records, My Ruin, Negative Gain, Old Man Gloom, Poppy, Profound Lore, Puta Volcano, Roadrunner Records, Rock And Roll Fables, Ron Killings, Sepultura, SPICE, Static-X, Tairrie B, The Brains, The Network, Wailin' Storms, War On Women, Witchskull, WWE

Ascension Of The Watchers Return With Gothic Post-Rock Epic Apocrypha

7 October 2020 By jesse 1 Comment

With the recent announcement that Burton C. Bell is stepping away from Fear Factory to focus on Ascension Of The Watchers, Apocrypha might just be the most important record of Bell’s career. And upon listening through AOTW’s first full-length since 2008’s Numinosum it’s apparent that, regardless of that news, Apocrypha is destined to be something important.

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Filed Under: Album Reviews, Music, New Releases, Rock And Roll Fables Tagged With: Abstract Distribution, Ascension of the Watchers, Burton Bell, Burton C Bell, Fear Factory, Jayce Lewis, John Bechdel, Rock And Roll Fables

20 for ’20: AKA 20 Albums We Think Will Kick Off Your New Decade Right

3 January 2020 By jesse 2 Comments

2020 has a lot going for it already with a slew of stellar albums dropping right at the start AND a year where Ozzy will release new material is a feat in itself. Also on the horizon beyond what we’ve listed below is a new beast from Rawk Gods Aeges (Review coming soon), more maniacal mayhem from Dog Fashion Disco, Megadeth’s triumphant return, and the original members of Static X reuniting to bring the late Wayne Static’s final recordings to light as a whole new full-length due this May. Hell, even Duran Duran will supposedly be back this spring with the follow up to 2015’s Paper Gods!

But I digress.

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Filed Under: Music, New Releases, Rock And Roll Fables Tagged With: 2020 music, 2020 preview, Alain Johannes, Ascension of the Watchers, Asking Alexandria, Chris Jericho, Code Orange, Dubioza kolektiv, Fozzy, Gojira, Julien-K, Kirk Windstein, Lamb of God, Marilyn Manson, Mastodon, Old Man Gloom, Poppy, Rob Zombie, Rock And Roll Fables, Rorschach Test, Stabbing Westward, Static-X, Testament, Tombs, Youth Code

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