Album Review: COMEBACK KID – Outsider
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Album Review: COMEBACK KID – Outsider

For what started as a side-project, Comeback Kid have certainly had an extensive career, releasing their sixth full-length Outsider in…
Album Review: THY ART IS MURDER – Dear Desolation
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Album Review: THY ART IS MURDER – Dear Desolation

Australia’s Thy Art Is Murder are not the sort of band that pull punches. Their unflinching adherence to doing things…
Album Review: SPITE – Nothing Is Beautiful
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Album Review: SPITE – Nothing Is Beautiful

Showcasing an outright refusal to play by the rules, SPITE are making a name as one of the premier Powerviolence…
Album Review: DECAPITATED – Anticult
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Album Review: DECAPITATED – Anticult

Decapitated first started out as… well, as a band that sounded exactly like you’d expect a band named Decapitated to…
Album Review: ORIGIN – Unparalleled Universe
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Album Review: ORIGIN – Unparalleled Universe

Hailing from the unlikely locale of Topeka, KS, Origin have been near the top of the death metal scene since…
Album Review: THE ACACIA STRAIN – Gravebloom
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Album Review: THE ACACIA STRAIN – Gravebloom

The Acacia Strain have been grinding their way up through the metal scene for a long time now. Over the…
Album Review: CKY – The Phoenix
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Album Review: CKY – The Phoenix

I’ll be honest: I never really got into CKY. At the time their popularity peaked, they were far too weird…
Album Review: CURRENTS – The Place I Feel Safest
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Album Review: CURRENTS – The Place I Feel Safest

Connecticut 5-piece Currents debut full-length The Place I Feel Safest comes out this Friday, the result of 6 years of…
Album Review: SIKTH – The Future In Whose Eyes?
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Album Review: SIKTH – The Future In Whose Eyes?

I doubt anyone in the mid-2000s – especially the members of SikTh themselves – would have believed you if you…
Album Review: 3TEETH – Shutdown.exe
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Album Review: 3TEETH – Shutdown.exe

Genres come and go in rock music, but few are as stubbornly unchanging as industrial. For close to thirty years,…
Concert Review: OPETH with GOJIRA in Kansas City
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Concert Review: OPETH with GOJIRA in Kansas City

Very few acts combine lush, atmospheric soundscapes and unrestrained brutality the way Swedish metal titans Opeth do – or tour…
Album Review: SEETHER – Poison The Parish
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Album Review: SEETHER – Poison The Parish

Not many bands from the era of nu-metal are what they once were. Oh sure, a few are still touring…
Album Review: THE BUNNY THE BEAR – The Way We Rust
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Album Review: THE BUNNY THE BEAR – The Way We Rust

The Bunny The Bear revel in being weird. The brainchild of Matthew Tybor, aka The Bunny, their career has been…
Album Review: FIT FOR AN AUTOPSY – The Great Collapse
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Album Review: FIT FOR AN AUTOPSY – The Great Collapse

Over the past decade, Fit For An Autopsy have carved out a place for themselves as one of the heaviest,…
Album Review: OVERKILL – The Grinding Wheel
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Album Review: OVERKILL – The Grinding Wheel

When someone mentions the word “thrash,” there’s a good chance one of the bands that comes to mind is “The…
Randy’s Top 25 Songs of 2016
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Randy’s Top 25 Songs of 2016

2016 has been an incredible year for music, in pretty much every genre, but especially for punk and metal. Because…
Album Review: DOPE – Blood Money, Part 1
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Album Review: DOPE – Blood Money, Part 1

There are two kinds of Dope fans: you know every song, or you sort of remember “Die Motherfucker Die.” I…
Album Review: WOVENWAR – Honor Is Dead
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Album Review: WOVENWAR – Honor Is Dead

As far as improvements between albums go, this may be the biggest leap forward of the year, but it’s not…
Album Review: DARKE COMPLEX – Point Oblivion
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Album Review: DARKE COMPLEX – Point Oblivion

Darke Complex are a strange, strange band. Their kitchen sink approach to music can yield very satisfying results…but can also…
Album Review: I PREVAIL – Lifelines
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Album Review: I PREVAIL – Lifelines

I Prevail were catapulted into the spotlight last year thanks to their cover of Taylor Swift’s “Blank Space” becoming a…
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