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RNRF Local Look ’25 (Or how we learned to do nothing but re-listen to everything we’ve already reviewed over the past 360+ days in a span of a few days)

Y’know what? We did this to ourselves. We’re not complaining at all. It’s just when we’re hours upon hours into this thing then we wanna know who exactly is to blame. And it’s us! But let’s backtrack for a sec, okay? We expanded our year end list a few years ago because we wanted to […]

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TIDALWAVE Releases Debut EP!

Charlotte, North Carolina’s TIDALWAVE want to rock fans in a way that can only be attained by evoking the greats of the ’90’s. No, I’m not talking grunge or the second coming of boy bands and bubblegum pop. I’m talkin’ alt-rock, post-rock, guitar-rock….whatever! Think late ’90’s and Chevelle, Taproot, deftones. [...]

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Untitled Metal Column: Volume 11 (Brothers Of The Sonic Cloth, Brothers Of The Sonic Cloth

Hot damn! Are you looking for some doom and gloom to kickstart your 2015? Do you long for the days of Seattle grunge, especially the heavy underbelly? And more importantly, do you miss Tad Doyle? If you answered “Heck yes!” to any of those questions then you are in luck [...]

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Christopher Hall: A Rock And Roll Fables Conversation

“I didn’t really have a vision for The Dreaming when we first started, just an urgent need to continue making music. If you listen to the progression of albums you will hear how the different members affected the sound dramatically. Jinxx from Black Veil Brides defined the sound of the [...]

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Marilyn Manson Returns With The Pale Emperor, Plays Boston’s House Of Blues On January 28th

Releasing a new album in January is a bold fucking statement for any artist and there is no one bolder in modern rock than Marilyn Manson. Besides the release date, probably the biggest surprise on The Pale Emperor (His ninth album) is how utterly amazing and solid it is. You [...]

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Brown Bird Releases Posthumous Album, Axis Mundi, On April 28th

It’s weird to find out about the death of someone you once knew and worked with via a press release but here we are. I worked with Brown Bird’s Dave Lamb many moons ago when he didn’t have a crazy beard

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Motor Sister Set To Release Debut Album in March, New Single/Pre-Orders Available Now!

It’s probably fitting that I’m just finishing Scott Ian’s autobiography (I’m The Man, out now and available here) when the news about the Anthrax guitarist’s latest project came across my desk. Like Mr. Ian, I learned about Jim Wilson and Mother Superior when they backed Henry Rollins on the Rollins [...]

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