Siamese drops new single and video, “Can’t Force The Love” Links: Instagram | Facebook The second of three videos for Denmark’s Siamese, the new material packs a punch with a heavy dose of humanistic sincerity. Using the same abandoned military base as Netflix’s The Rain, it helped solidify the emotion … Read More ›
All Hail The Yeti returns in 2020 refreshed and anew, ready to show the world a new musical perspective and the hopes of a rescheduled fall tour Links: Facebook | Twitter Out of the ashes rises the phoenix. That is how Connor Garritty describes his band. To be the lead … Read More ›
Midnight Rebirth By Blasphemy Metal Blade Links: Bandcamp | Metal Blade The concept of Rebirth By Blasphemy started out to be a positive album. But by the time Athenar got to the title track, it all went downhill. His view about people is that they are still shit and the … Read More ›
Agnostic Front Get Loud! Nuclear Blast Records Links: Facebook | Nuclear Blast Records Agnostic Front does not need to get back to basics because they are the godfathers of New York Hardcore who saw the genesis of the East Coast Hardcore scene. Yet their latest album for Nuclear Blast Records … Read More ›
Victims The Horse and Sparrow Theory Relapse ★★★ To relish in a modern day UK crust punk sound, we have to travel north to Stockholm, Sweden and the band Victims. One of the aspects that impressed me during the ‘80s hardcore movement was how bands like Agnostic Front could light … Read More ›
Great Grief Love, Lust, and Greed No Sleep Records ★★★★ Refused is to Sweden as Great Grief is to Iceland. The reference is not pointing to the progressive and highly experimental Refused, but somewhere between Everlasting-era Refused and Songs to Fan the Flames of Discontent-era Refused. Great Grief’s “Escaping Reykjavik” … Read More ›
Broken Cross Militant Misanthrope Independent ★★★★ I am confused. This combination of metal and hardcore should not work out with this benefit. Yet, Broken Cross have found a way to weld these elements together and seamlessly make it click. Militant Misanthrope defies genre convention, blending in classic metal with modern … Read More ›
Grey Skies Fallen The Many Sides of Truth Xanthros Music ★★★★ As New York carries much brawn in the guitar-laden battlefield of rock, we think of rip-roaring hardcore or the gutter sludge of Type O Negative. But when it comes to epic metal meets the extreme, you automatically want to … Read More ›