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Final Gasp Ready For Release Show, Outings With Acid Bath And Napalm Death As Multi-Faceted Sophomore Metal Aural Assault New Day Symptoms Arrives

New Day Symptoms, the newest effort from Boston’s Final Gasp is a clusterfuck of awesome. If you’ve heard singles “The Apparition”, “No Hand To Lead” or “Burials Of Birth” already then you know where we’re coming from on the “awesome” front, right? As for the “clusterfuck”, FG somehow have a sound that is a weird […]

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bad//verb Get Especially Rambunctious, A Little Experimental On Violent Year

Violent Year, the latest release from bad//verb, just might be our favorite release from the Boston Gen X Cringe trio yet! And here’s why…

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Singles! Jennifer Tefft & The Strange, “A Little More”

At this point with our history covering Jennifer Tefft & The Strange we really shouldn’t be surprised when each new piece of music continues to impress but here we are, jaws on the floor and ears tantalized YET AGAIN following a listen through to latest single “A Little More”.

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A Metal AOTY Contender Already? If We’re Talking Glasgow Grin From Full House Brew Crew Then That’d Be A Huge “Hells Yes!”

Let it be known that we had high hopes for this one the instant lead single “No Gods, No Chains” came across ye olde digital desk last Fall. We hyped it even more in our just released 2026 preview (Read it here!) after hearing only a few singles to the [...]

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Singles! Üga Büga, “Motorhog”

You know what? We’ve resigned ourselves to the sad fact that there will NEVER be a band quite like Motherboar and a concept record as grand as The Beast Becomes The Servant (Please listen repeatedly and loudly here) but damn if Virginia’s Üga Büga doesn’t come reaaalllly close at times. [...]

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Next Up! The Rock And Roll Fables Guide To 26 Artists, 26 New Works Of Art. In 2026.

We do this to ourselves every year! When will we learn?!?! The “this” in question is procrastinate which ALWAYS results in a) releases we initially put on here being irrelevant and b) new releases coming to light and oftentimes resulting in some list restructuring. Regarding this particular post, there were [...]

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SkyTigers Combine All The Heavy Things (Punk! Thrash! Hardcore! METAL!) For The Chaotic Catharsis Of …Injustice For All

What are they putting in the Lowell water??? If we don’t say it enough already, what a scene! And the latest release from SkyTigers will not do anything to dissuade the constant glaze out of us at least as they deliver a ferocious new LP that’s concise, crushing and oddly [...]

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