Album Review: COMEBACK KID – Outsider
Album Reviews
September 10, 2017
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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August 16, 2017
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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July 27, 2017
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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July 12, 2017
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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July 8, 2017
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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June 29, 2017
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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June 15, 2017
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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June 15, 2017
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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May 31, 2017
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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May 18, 2017
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
Concert Reviews
May 15, 2017
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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May 10, 2017
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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March 16, 2017
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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February 23, 2017
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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February 11, 2017
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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December 31, 2016
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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November 3, 2016
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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October 29, 2016
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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October 22, 2016
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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October 22, 2016
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…