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Singles! blindspot, “Vienna (Billy Joel Cover)”

While our familiarity with Billy Joel music goes far beyond “We Didn’t Start the Fire”, having started with An Innocent Man on vinyl through Columbia House (Anyone remember that???) and also through High School Jazz Band with “New York State Of Mind” as a staple of our set, we wouldn’t call ourselves experts by any […]

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Kelsey’s Debut EP Is A Hard Rawk Fans Delight

As a fellow Berklee grad, how could I not wanna review this? It also helps that the debut EP from Kelsey Luo happens to be a kick ass slab of unexpected hard rawk! Vancouver to Boston to L.A. to Vancouver once again is the journey Kelsey took to bring you [...]

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Bleeding Through Return Reinvigorated On Ridiculously Rambunctious Love Will Kill All

Just to go back and remember how intense they could be in advance of this review I decided to forego sleep on the plane home during a recent trip and intently listen to my favorite, and the the first album I owned from, Bleeding Through. The album in question is [...]

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At The Gates Continue To Be Pioneers Of Melodic Death Metal On To Drink From The Night Itself

At The Gates is another one of those bands that I just never got into. Aware of them? Yes. But growing up when I did when Josh Homme was still a 20-year old kid playing desert rock, The Big Four were all experimenting with the mainstream, and nu-metal was just [...]

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Soft Kill Ready Emotionally Heavy, Sonically Vibrant Savior For Release

The first half of 2018 is filling up with more favorites than I can keep track of. Like Soft Kill who I came across thanks to Decibel, the only magazine I still read, simply because they shared the same review space as Fotocrime (We’ll mention that band again a little [...]

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Untitled Metal Column: Volume 14 (Child Bite, Burnt Offerings: Covers And Rarities 2010 – 2017)

Easily one of our most favorite new bands of the past 5-10 years, Detroit’s Child Bite tap into this primal feeling of wonder each time they play by producing music that’s genre-defying and takes listeners on a different sonic journey with each new track.

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LIK Carry The Swedish Metal Torch Proudly On Sophomore Carnage

Swedish death metal is alive and well and the month of May certainly proves that with new releases from the legendary At The Gates (Watch for our review of that soon) along with our focus today which is LIK’s sophomore offering, Carnage, out on May 4th through Metal Blade Records.

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