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21 For ’21 Because Why Not?!? (RNRF Best Of 2021)

30 December 2021 By jesse 1 Comment

I always do like 50 different drafts for just the opening alone then end up with one stripped down thing like this at the end of it all because I just wanna get this ish out there to the masses. 2021 has been up’s and down’s in the world but a pretty solid year overall for music. So much so that I almost considered not ranking my massive list of 21 releases that did it for me in 2021. Almost. As always, thanks for liking and following and most importantly, thanks for reading!

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Filed Under: Music, New Releases, Rock And Roll Fables, Year End Tagged With: Bikini Death Race, Black Label Society, Blutengel, Comatose, Danny Elfman, Eastern High, Epitaph Records, Failure, Fear Factory, Four Stroke Baron, Glaare, Green Witch Recordings, HIPPOTRAKTOR, Lauren Lakis, Mikey Rukus, Ministry, MNRK Heavy, Nefarious Industries, Negative Gain, Nuclear Blast Records, One Hundred Thousand, Out Of Line Music, Pelagic Records, Prosthetic Records, Quicksand, Roadrunner Records, Rob Zombie, Rock And Roll Fables, Spiritbox, Sub Pop Records, Trillionaire, Turnstile, TV Priest, Weyrd Son Records

20 for ’20: An Exhausting List Of Our Favorite Music That Got Us Through A Truly Exhausting Year

31 December 2020 By jesse Leave a Comment

It’s an understatement that 2020 was a pretty fucked up year, right? Machine Head was the last live band I saw back in February and a few days after that I found myself in an emergency room with some unexpected surgery to be had (Don’t worry, I’m fine now!) followed by the shutdown across the country. There’ve been ups, downs, and everything in between in 2020 but one constant has been the music. Artists have adapted with some keeping those schedules and releasing new albums despite not being able to tour behind them while others are holding off altogether. Some have done well with the new norm of livestreamed concerts and while I’ve checked out a few, personally they’re just not my cuppa.

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Filed Under: Album Reviews, Music, New Releases, Rock And Roll Fables, Year End Tagged With: AC/DC, Armored Saint, Ascension of the Watchers, Bloodwitch, Burton C Bell, Bush, Caitlin Stokes, Corlyx, Eldridge Rodriguez, Electronic Substance Abuse, Elephant Tree, ESA, Feminenergy, Foot, Forming The Void, Greg Puciato, Higher Power, Hinayana, Hum, Irist, Julien-K, Killer Be Killed, Kirk Windstein, Loviatar, Magnetic Eye Records, Metal Blade Records, My Ruin, Negative Gain, Old Man Gloom, Poppy, Profound Lore, Puta Volcano, Roadrunner Records, Rock And Roll Fables, Ron Killings, Sepultura, SPICE, Static-X, Tairrie B, The Brains, The Network, Wailin' Storms, War On Women, Witchskull, WWE

A Subtle Rebuttal: Re-Ordering Type O Negative’s Albums From Awful To Least Worst Of

14 February 2019 By jesse 1 Comment

A few years back, Metal Hammer decided to rank Type O Negative’s discography from worst to first and, as a lifelong tattoo-emblazoned/double digit seeing TON fan, I was slightly put off by the whole thing. That said, and at the urging of bostonregina, I decided to rectify their mistakes and make my own list.

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Filed Under: A Subtle Rebuttal, Album Reviews, Music, New Releases, Rock And Roll Fables Tagged With: Bloody Kisses, Dead Again, Johnny Kelly, Josh Silver, Kenny Hickey, Life Is Killing Me, October Rust, Peter Steele, Roadrunner Records, Rock And Roll Fables, Sal Abruscato, Slow Deep and Hard, Type O Negative, World Coming Down

Gojira Exits The Metal Stratosphere On Defining Magma

10 June 2016 By jesse Leave a Comment

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This is the one, people. You know when Mastodon had that record that really divided fans? That apparently crossed the line between what’s suposedly metal and what’s something else? This is the one that’s gonna do it for Gojira. It’s short (Only eight songs if you don’t count the two brief instrumentals), it’s concise, and there’s actual singing! But it’s still wholly a Gojira record. Trust me. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Album Reviews, Music, New Releases, Rock And Roll Fables Tagged With: Christian Andreu, Gojira, gojira band, Jean-Michel Labadie, Joe Duplantier, Magma, Mario Duplantier, Roadrunner Records, Rock And Roll Fables

Burton C. Bell: A Rock And Roll Fables Conversation

6 May 2016 By jesse Leave a Comment

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Fear Factory’s latest, and ninth album, is barely a year old yet here they are touring the country playing their iconic sophomore album from front to back. Despite the obvious reasons (Um, 20th anniversary of Demanufacture!), the answer for the current tour is actually quite simple as vocalist Burton C. Bell cordially explains via phone: [Read more…]

Filed Under: Interviews, Music, New Releases Tagged With: Al Jourgensen, Burton Bell, burton bell interview, Burton C Bell, Demanufature, Dino Cazares, Fear Factory, Genexus, Mike Heller, Monte Conner, Nuclear Blast Entertainment, Nuclear Blast Records, Roadrunner Records, The Industrialist, the industrialist graphic novel, Tony Campos

Machine Head Prepare To Decimate Brighton Music Hall This Weekend, New Album Bloodstone & Diamonds Out Now!

29 January 2015 By jesse Leave a Comment

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My first exposure to Oakland’s Machine Head was waaaaay back in 1994 when the now classic Burn My Eyes was released. I was on the Roadrunner Records mailing list and occasionally got postcards about new releases (Yes, regular old snail mail used to inform people about new music). [Read more…]

Filed Under: Album Reviews, Live Shows, Music, Rock And Roll Fables Tagged With: Adam Duce, Bloodstone & Diamonds, Brighton Music Hall, Burn My Eyes, Dave McClain, Jared MacEachern, Machine Head, Nuclear Blast Records, Phil Demmel, Roadrunner Records, Robb Flynn

Untitled Metal Column: Volume 9.1 (Slipknot, .5: The Gray Chapter)

20 October 2014 By jesse Leave a Comment

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I’m not saying this is the greatest Slipknot album yet…but it kinda is. An album that should not be is now less than 24 hours from being released. Fueled by death and inner turmoil, .5: The Gray Chapter is a fury-filled fuck you to naysayers and a triumphant step forward for the nine.

It’s also a giant fuck you to fired founding member Joey Jordison who many believed was the driving force as far as songwriting was concerned. Just listen to “The Negative One”, Slipknot’s first tease from the album released back in August. Never mind the obvious jab in the song name (“One” was Jordison’s number) all you have to do is take one listen to any of the lyrics within: “I hope you live/To see the day/When your world comes up in flames/And as you die/You see my face/You’re the only one to blame”. And that’s just one refrain. Stylistically this “gift to the fans” showed off strong songwriting with a vicious track that captured the raw ferocity of Slipknot merged with modern technology. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Album Reviews, Music, New Releases, Untitled Metal Column Tagged With: .5: The Gray Chapter, Chris Fehn, Corey Taylor, Craig Jones, Jim Root, Joey Jordison, Mick Thomson, Paul Gray, Roadrunner Records, Shawn Crahan, Sid Wilson, Slipknot, Stone Sour

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