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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

Combichrist Fire Back At Haters With Viciously Solid One Fire

30 May 2019 By jesse Leave a Comment

Fans of all iterations of aggro tech metallers Combichrist will surely find something to appease their blackened hearts within One Fire‘s diverse walls. And if you can’t then frankly, this isn’t the band for you anymore.

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Filed Under: Album Reviews, Music, New Releases, Rock And Roll Fables Tagged With: Andy LaPlegua, Burton C Bell, Combichrist, Eric 13, Nick Rossi, One Fire, Out Of Line Music, Rock And Roll Fables

Pissed Off Uncle Al Really Is The Bee’s Knees As Evidenced On Politically-Charged/45-Bashing AmeriKKKant

3 April 2018 By jesse Leave a Comment

This is one of those after the fact records that stuck with me enough to have thoughts. Especially because I feel the need to defend it against haters. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Album Reviews, Music, New Releases, Rock And Roll Fables Tagged With: Al Jourgensen, Alien Jourgensen, Amerikkkant, Burton C Bell, Cesar Soto, Derek Abrams, DJ Swamp, John Bechdel, Ministry, ministry band, Rock And Roll Fables, Sin Quirin, Tony Campos, Uncle Al

Burton C. Bell: A Rock And Roll Fables Conversation

6 May 2016 By jesse Leave a Comment

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Fear Factory’s latest, and ninth album, is barely a year old yet here they are touring the country playing their iconic sophomore album from front to back. Despite the obvious reasons (Um, 20th anniversary of Demanufacture!), the answer for the current tour is actually quite simple as vocalist Burton C. Bell cordially explains via phone: [Read more…]

Filed Under: Interviews, Music, New Releases Tagged With: Al Jourgensen, Burton Bell, burton bell interview, Burton C Bell, Demanufature, Dino Cazares, Fear Factory, Genexus, Mike Heller, Monte Conner, Nuclear Blast Entertainment, Nuclear Blast Records, Roadrunner Records, The Industrialist, the industrialist graphic novel, Tony Campos

Fear Factory Bring It Back To 1995 While Still Looking To The Future During Worcester Stop Of Demanufacture 20th Anniversary Tour

14 April 2016 By jesse 1 Comment

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My first exposure to industrial metallers Fear Factory was back in college and the Mortal Kombat soundtrack which featured “Zero Signal” off a little album called Demanufacture. Something about the synths and the syncopated guitar and drum attacks paired with vocalist Burton C. Bell’s growl to a croon approach immediately stood out to me. And as a fan of bands like Ministry and NIN already, this took me to a new level. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Live Shows, Music, New Releases Tagged With: Burton C Bell, Demanufacture, Demanufacture 20th Anniversary, Dino Cazares, live shows, Mike Heller, Rock And Roll Fables, Tony Campos, Worcester, Worcester Palladium

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