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HATEFUL ABANDON – Liars/Bastards
Hateful Abandon draw on the darker side of post-punk with a sound that gets under your skin and worms its way into your brain. This music is heavy and dark, but not in the metal sense of guitars...
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LORD DYING – Poisoned Altars
Lord Dying have truly upped the ante with their sophomore release, Poisoned Altars, taking everything that was good about their debut, Summon The Faithless, and improving upon it. The riffs are more...
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RUBY THE HATCHET – Valley Of The Snake
Ruby The Hatchet play a bewitching form of proto-metal that references the genre’s greats while putting their own stamp on the proceedings. At their core, they know how to write great heavy rock songs,...
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TORCHE – Restarter
The title of this Torche album has special significance, as it shows the band return to the heavier sound of their earlier releases (such as their self-titled debut and Meanderthal), after moving...
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POISON IDEA – Confuse & Conquer
There are few classic punk bands that reform after years apart and recapture the magic that made them special in the first place. Thankfully, Poison Idea is among those bands, because their newest...
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BLOOD DRUGS – S/T
Seattle quartet Blood Drugs hearkens back to a time when their hometown music scene was ruled by loud, noisy, unhinged music. Their self-titled debut on Good To Die lays down one hell of a racket — the...
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MIRROR QUEEN – Scaffolds of the Sky
Mirror Queen are riff sorcerers who cherry-pick the best parts of loud rock’s past and craft it into one full, cohesive sound. The way they mix up prog, psyche rock, proto-metal, and hard rock makes...
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JIMMY JUNK BIRD AND THE STIFFS – The Cove
One of Connecticut’s finest purveyors of “left-field metal” return with another EP less than a year after their debut Bird Brains. It is a worthy follow-up to its predecessor in so many ways, and...
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DEATH ALLEY – Black Magick Boogieland
When was the last time you kicked out the jams, motherfucker? It’s been a while, and frankly, we’re a little concerned. You’ve been spending too much time with all types of droney, atmospheric...
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ELEPHANT RIFLE – Ivory
Right now there is a mini noise-punk movement going on in underground rock. Many bands are discovering the joys of turning up the volume and feedback and getting loud and weird. But as with any...
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OLD WOUNDS – The Suffering Spirit
Old Wounds rose from the swamps of New Jersey a few years back and over the course of their existence have developed into one of the most intense hardcore bands out there today. Their fusion of...
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ECSTATIC VISION – Sonic Praise
If you were one of the few lucky people who heard A Life Once Lost’s last record, Ecstatic Trance, you would have heard the seeds that were planted for their former guitarist Douglas Sabolick’s new...
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ROLO TOMASSI – Grievances
For some reason, until now, this mathy and progressive hardcore band from the UK hasn’t released any proper albums in the United States since their formation in 2005. This is a little hard to...
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SWEET COBRA – Earth
The last time we heard from Chicago’s Sweet Cobra they had just lost one of their band members to cancer, Matthew Allen Arluck, and had released the excellent Mercy album, which was a fitting send off...
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GRAVEYARD – Innocence & Decadence
These Swedish proto-metal masters have refined their sound over the course of four studio albums, and their newest one continues down the path they started many years ago. The band is at the top of...
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OMAR RODRIGUEZ-LOPEZ – Corazones, Blind Worms, Pious Swine, and Arañas en La...
No one was more excited when musical mates Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and Cedric Bixlar-Zavala introduced Nadie Sound – their own label that housed their new project at the time, Antemasque. Along with the...
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DAN VAPID – All Wound Up
I’ve been a fan of everything Dan Vapid has ever worked on, regardless of how in-charge of the songwriting he actually was: Screeching Weasel, The Riverdales, The Methadones, Dan Vapid and The Cheats....
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OMAR RODRIGUEZ-LOPEZ – Umbrella Mistress, El Bien y Mal Nos Une, Cell Phone...
To say I was excited when it was announced that Omar Rodriguez-Lopez was going to unleash 12 albums in the span of a few short months would be an understatement. That being said, I convinced myself...
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OMAR RODRIGUEZ-LOPEZ – Weekly Mansions, Zapapon, Nom De Guerre Cabal, and...
We’re reaching the end. Though we know there is more to come in 2017, the final releases of the Omar Rodriguez-Lopez fourth quarter release extravaganza is nearing. Beyond the fact that having a...
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ELEPHANT RIFLE – Ivory
Right now there is a mini noise-punk movement going on in underground rock. Many bands are discovering the joys of turning up the volume and feedback and getting loud and weird. But as with any...
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