Sometime ago in rural California, five male bodies were discovered in an open field, murdered, disemboweled and laid out, waiting...
In perusing Spoken’s press release, it states that the band’s latest and greatest release, Illusion, “is an exercise in aggression and calculated fragility. Laced with testosterone, the album throws down with the elite of metal and hardcore in calculated moments of heaviness. But what makes this record distinctive is not its speedy riffage or its pounding beats, but its emotional candor.”
Let’s get one thing sorted from the get go, this is not rock'n'roll, but GODDAM it is some cool shit! There is so much to take in and grab hold of here that fans of all styles, especially progressive rock/metal, will find something to latch onto and obsess over.
13 is an unlucky number for some, but apparently not for Blackbox13 and their mini-album Army Of None. When listening to it you have to consider that the four piece aren’t out to re-invent the wheel; it’s just plain hard rock - pretty damn fine hard rock.
What do you get when you combine transcendental elevator music with blazing yet unrefined metal riffs? Give up? Temporal, the newest and possibly final release from the San Francisco, California based band ISIS.
Most people like to rant about politics and everything in between whilst making an unnecessary fuss about it – ranging from the radical (yet awesome) Rage Against The Machine to the average whining 16 year olds who think they know everything. Take all of that out of the equation and you end up with the LA based rapper Hyro Da Hero’s album Birth School Work Death. He churns up politically charged tunes while fusing hip-hop and rock influences in an attempt “To bring real music back”.
Epidemia is Ill Nino’s second release for Victory Records and the follow-up to 2010’s Dead New World. It’s a solid, aggressive and focused album that could very well be the bands biggest and best offering since their groundbreaking record 'Confession' in 2003.
It’s been 5 years since DC’s Pig Destroyer has released an album. Their new album, Book Burner, is said to be “meticulously tailor-made for destruction, with a blood thirst for riffs,” and it doesn’t disappoint. After several listens, it’s a fucking penetrating album, and an outline of what American grindcore should be.
Read this great review on KISS' new album, MONSTER by our own Johnny Price - probably one of the biggest lifelong KISS fans on the planet!
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