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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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LizZard just might be the best band you’re not listening to in 2014

If you’re checking out LiZzard solely on the strength of “The Roots Within” (Which I did) then you’re in for a treat. On their latest, Majestic, LizZard tap into the best aspects of Tool, Chevelle (a la Wonder What’s Next), and combine it with elements of grunge to create a [...]

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Ziltoid crash lands on Planet Earth once again with Z2!

A metal icon, a prog innovator, and now the progenitor of the modern rock opera?!?! It’s true! Devin Townsend adds another chit to his belt with the beyond epic Z2 double album. Yep, you read that right: Double. Album. Years in the making and finally fully realized thanks to fans [...]

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Child Bite offer up some Strange Waste on latest EP

Their frontman looks like Neil Fallon but sounds like Jello Biafra, the band slams down some rawk and/or roll meets punk meets rockabilly, and their latest EP is 9 tracks long but barely clocks in at 20 minutes. They’re called Child Bite out of the great state of Michigan and [...]

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The Ape Of God is better than anything your band will ever put out. Ever.

I don’t think I’m in the minority when I say that Old Man Gloom albums are somewhat of a cathartic, almost religious, experience. Despite the exercises in sonic extremes, OMG always litter their albums with a certain ambiance that tempers the brutality making the music they create collectively not only [...]

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“You never forget your first time…” (It’s our 1st anniversary! 11/6/14)

A year already? Almost 6,000 page views (Where you at Facebook and Twitter?!?!?) and 150 posts mostly done by my lonesome from a site born out of creative frustration based off the opening line from Streets Of Fire. I’d say that’s an accomplishment, wouldn’t you? In that time we’ve started [...]

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I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness choose darkness again on Dust

Surprise albums make for the best albums. You know which ones I’m talking about: Those ones that seemingly come out of nowhere from a band you really love who maybe hasn’t produced an album in, say, eight years or so? Which brings me to I Love You But I’ve Chosen [...]

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