Every so often we find ourselves before a performance that we just did not expect whatsoever. Typically, those experiences take me into some vague corner of the metal underground where I am confronted with a band that either does things … Continue reading In Covert – Bleak Machinery
Sometimes, all you need is a break. Whether it’s from working away at a task or taking a quick pause to appreciate what’s going on in the moment, a break can really make the difference for many and provide a … Continue reading At the Altar of the Horned God – Elements
It would seem to be that whenever we think of what the realm of punk rock is capable of, most of us tend to immediately think of intense, brief bursts of energy and rage done in such a fashion that’s … Continue reading Blacklist – Afterworld
To attain a proper garage feel in your music is a hard thing to come by nowadays with it just not feeling like it’s in fashions as much as it used to be, but that doesn’t mean it’s impossible to … Continue reading 2thebone – Bless
The idea of a “summer record” is something that I’ve always been aware of since I was a kid but it’s something that has since faded into the back of my mind as we just don’t hear the term used … Continue reading Ceremony – In The Spirit World Now
It’s likely been years since any sort of punk rock really leaped out at me and I couldn’t help but listen to over and over again. I couldn’t even tell you the last piece of punk rock that I was … Continue reading Sue – It Will Never End
Sometimes punk rock isn’t all raw and harsh screaming that sounds like something you’d expect the very angry people of the world to be singing. Sometimes it has actually a positive feel to it and something that will lift your spirits even if the actual meanings of the songs aren’t exactly user-friendly from time to time, that’s what Dead On TV’s newest album “Creeper” is to me. It puts a positive sounding twist on punk rock but still keeping the same “vulgarity” as other punk bands, and I know this is a fact because just look at the track list … Continue reading Dead On TV – Creeper
I know some of you went “what the fuck” when you saw that cover because I certainly, but thankfully past this cover was an album that had both hardcore punk rock and hardcore black metal where the two seemed to have been thrown into a meat grinder and cemented together into one cohesive, brutal album that just went on and on. Now some might find that “on and on” factor to be unsavory, but those of you who can withstand sitting there and listening to each song for what they are can certainly find really good things in it that … Continue reading Hombre Malo – Persistent Murmur of Words of Wrath
Whoever says southern metal, grunge metal, or anything of the sort isn’t could can go shut the hell up now. This reissue of Brotherhood’s “Till Death. . .” is the greatest of that kind of music because it really does sound like a band of rebels that made a band and started playing in the damn garage. The whole album has a real grungy sound to it much like how Leatherneck does with their music by giving it a real edgy and even sandpapery (that’s a word now) feel to it that persists through the entire album and that’s what … Continue reading Brotherhood – Till Death. . .
“III” was released yesterday and it’s as amazing as I thought it was going to be. It had amazing sound with the guitars, vocals, and drums all having badass tone and sound all throughout this album and that makes it fucking great. Xerath reincorporates the use of atmospheric sounds that they used in their single “I Hold Dominion” to make the songs that they’re used in sound all the more epic and fantastic. I really wish many more people would know of this band because Xerath is one of those groups that have somehow gone undetected among the greater part of the … Continue reading Xerath – III
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