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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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What’s In A Name? Steak offer up some Corned Beef Colossus on latest EP!

John Garcia recently revealed that he recorded some vocals for a band called Steak. Being a Garcia/Kyuss/Vista Chino/Slo Burn/Hermano fan, the news piqued my interest and I am happy to report that the music world is about to explode once they get a taste of Steak. On their most recent [...]

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Untitled Metal Column: Volume 4 (Godflesh, Decline & Fall)

The news on the new Godflesh front was becoming increasingly quiet and I was wondering if A World Lit Only By Fire was ever going to see the light of day. I can only imagine that Godflesh must have sensed my concerns (Obviously!) because not only has their new album [...]

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Untitled Metal Column: Volume 3 (Prong, Ruining Lives)

Prong can do no wrong in my book and, to be honest, I’m just happy they still exist because there seemed to be a time where that might not be the case anymore (Happily, that reality is in the distant past). Not only is Prong reinvigorated after 2012’s jaw dropping [...]

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Jokes! Episode 3: Patton Oswalt, Tragedy Plus Comedy Equals Time

Let’s get one thing straight: I love Patton Oswalt. Not in the crazy way Paul Aufiero loved the NY Giants in Big Fan but in a totally platonic “he’s a cool guy” sort of way. I proudly wore a “sadness bowl” badge on my lanyard for work after Werewolves & [...]

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Kristen Ford bids Boston adieu at the Middle East on May 24th!

Courage comes in many forms. There’s facing your fears head on, quitting a job you hate to take care of your kids, running into a burning building while others run away, or leaving behind the city you know and love to live in a van and tour full time. While [...]

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Front Line Assembly rules all, releases remix album ECHOES!

Let it be known that I do not like remix albums. At all. Of my favorite artists to do so, there’s only a handful that I find tolerable (Nine Inch Nails’ Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D, Death From Above 1979’s Romance Bloody Romance: Remixes & B-Sides immediately come to mind). I guess I just [...]

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