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Dynamic Duo Deliver The Doom Rawk You Need As Hoaxed Drop Two Shadows

24 October 2022 By jesse Leave a Comment

Hailing from the gloomy Northwest (Portland, Oregon to be exact), Hoaxed’s brand of captivating ethereal Doom Rawk is soon to be your new favorite thing with a sound that’s also sure to be a Spooky Season staple as well.

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Filed Under: Album Reviews, Music, New Releases, Rock And Roll Fables Tagged With: Hoaxed, Kat Keo, Kim Coffel, Relapse Records, Rock And Roll Fables, Two Shadows

Cave In Hone In On Space-Rawk Roots, Create A Cathartic Crusher With Majestic Heavy Pendulum

17 May 2022 By jesse Leave a Comment

I try to stay away from other reviews when it comes to any album I already know that I’ll be reviewing myself here but after hearing the latest Cave In record all the way through for the first time I got a little overexcited to see if people felt the same way I did. That said, I’ve gotta hand it to Decibel Magazine’s Shawn Macomber who was so on point in describing Heavy Pendulum as “the best stadium-ready modern Metal record” because, in a nutshell and at its’ core, it’s exactly that. And obviously so much more.

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Filed Under: Album Reviews, Music, New Releases, Rock And Roll Fables Tagged With: Adam McGrath, Caleb Scofield, Cave In, Heavy Pendulum, JR Conners, Kurt Ballou, Nate Newton, Relapse Records, Rock And Roll Fables, Stephen Brodsky

Absent In Body Create A New Primal Rage On Debut Plague God

18 March 2022 By jesse Leave a Comment

Supergroup is a weird fucking term. And completely objective. For me, an artist like Old Man Gloom is the definition of a supergroup put in the same realm as, say, Down, there’ll inevitably be people who are all “Who is even in this band?” (For the record, OMG features members of Cave In, Isis, and Converge i.e. most of the Mount Rushmore of Boston heavy). Again, objective. Which brings us to similarly underground supergroup Absent In Body who feature in their ranks members of Amenra, Neurosis, and Sepultura and have a debut release that, as an essential part of this “supergroup” formula, sounds unlike anything that makes up the sum of its’ parts.

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Filed Under: Album Reviews, Music, New Releases, Rock And Roll Fables Tagged With: Absent In Body, Amenra, Colin H Van Eeckhout, Iggor Cavalera, Igor Cavalera, Mathieu Vandekerckhove, Neurosis, Plague God, Relapse Records, Rock And Roll Fables, Scott Kelly, Sepultura

Genghis Tron Expel Preconceived Notions, Forge New Path With The Electro-Tinged Euphoria Of Dream Weapon

24 March 2021 By jesse Leave a Comment

It’s hard to wrap one’s head around Genghis Tron. Are they Metal? Are they Doom? Are they Electro? Are they “Cybergrind”? With Dream Weapon, their first full-length in 13 years, Genghis Tron is throwing every preconceived notion you may have had about the band out the window with a fresh line up and an even fresher sound.

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Filed Under: Album Reviews, Music, New Releases, Rock And Roll Fables Tagged With: Dream Weapon, Genghis Tron, Hamilton Jordan, Kurt Ballou, Michael Sochynsky, Nick Yacyshyn, Relapse Records, Rock And Roll Fables, Tony Wolski

Denver Death Sludge Is Back As Primitive Man Return With Immersion

11 August 2020 By jesse Leave a Comment

Denver’s first and only Death Sludge band is back!

Primitive Man is returning after a three year absence apparently and since I don’t follow the band on the regular that isn’t really news to me. What IS news to me is that this record and this band slay because having just listened through the resulting album after those three years and having not heard anything previously of PM from start to finish….well, I don’t know what I just heard….but I like it!

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Filed Under: Album Reviews, Music, New Releases, Rock And Roll Fables Tagged With: Ethan Lee McCarthy, Immersion, Joe Linden, Jonathan Campos, Primitive Man, Relapse Records, Rock And Roll Fables

Inter Arma Honor The Greats With Garbers Days Revisited Covers Record

29 June 2020 By jesse Leave a Comment

I’ve probably said this before but I’ll say it again: Cover albums are a tricky thing to master. As an artist, you want to honor those that came before while putting your own stamp while also not being too close to the original to make it all pointless while also not sounding like a parody. Make sense? Okay, then!

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Filed Under: Album Reviews, Music, New Releases, Rock And Roll Fables Tagged With: Andrew Lacour, Garbers Days Revisited, Inter Arma, Mike Paparo, Relapse Records, Rock And Roll Fables, Steven Russell, TJ Childers, Trey Dalton

Torche Conquer All With A Heavy Melody On Admission

11 July 2019 By jesse Leave a Comment

Somewhere in the beginning of my review of Torche’s last behemoth (Which you can conveniently read here!), I mentioned something along the lines of wanting to write a review on the title track by itself because it was that good. Well, it seems that the quartet from Miami, Florida have topped themselves yet again and yet again I will refrain from writing a whole piece about how much of a killer track “Admission” is. Even though it’s that awesome. And is totally deserving of a separate post just to talk about that fact. But there are other awesome tracks within to discuss…

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Filed Under: Album Reviews, Music, New Releases, Rock And Roll Fables Tagged With: Eric Hernandez, Jonathan Nunez, Relapse Records, Rick Smith, Rock And Roll Fables, Steve Brooks, Torche

Pinkish Black Push Prog Boundaries With Synthetic Apocalyptical Sounds Of Concept Unification

7 June 2019 By jesse Leave a Comment

Damn, this is some dense shit right here. Fresh off the Enthroned review we recently published comes a similarly despondent work of metallic art from a different spectrum of the music world. We’re of course, talking about Pinkish Black and their fourth opus, Concept Unification, which is an elaborate six track beast pushing the boundaries of Prog.

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Filed Under: Album Reviews, Music, New Releases, Rock And Roll Fables Tagged With: Concept Unification, Daron Beck, Jon Teague, Pinkish Black, Relapse Records, Rock And Roll Fables

ASG Return With Bold, Beautiful Survive Sunrise

11 July 2018 By jesse 1 Comment

Another throwback to my Popblerd! writing days! I knew it had been some time since ASG had released some new stuff but surely something had come out that I missed in the interim of my writing there and here, right? Nope! It’s been five years since that last album (For a flashback to that review, head here) and ASG has returned with this blistering, burgeoning, beautiful beast of a new album. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Album Reviews, Music, New Releases, Rock And Roll Fables Tagged With: Andy Ellis, ASG, Jason Shi, Relapse Records, Rock And Roll Fables, Scott Key

Yob Brings Soulful And Savage Sounds On Our Raw Heart

31 May 2018 By jesse Leave a Comment

This is a site where, if I don’t like it, chances are it ain’t getting reviewed. Mostly because I don’t have the time to waste on stuff that doesn’t interest me and, quite frankly, writing about stuff that I don’t like is a whole lot of negative energy that I don’t need to dispel into the world.

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Filed Under: Album Reviews, Music, New Releases, Rock And Roll Fables Tagged With: Aaron Rieseberg, Mike Scheidt, Our Raw Heart, Relapse Records, Travis Foster, YOB

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