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Bands like Green Day and Stick To Your Guns Are More Important To The Mainstream Than You Think

September 30, 2016

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Crank up your radio. Turn on your TV. Log into your Facebook account. Chances are viewing the influence of the media on the current state of the world is unavoidable. The common knowledge of word of mouth being important is unbelievably underrated and hardly understood. When the entertainment industry produces spokespersons for everything from politics […]

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Why Danny Worsnop doesn’t need to front Asking Alexandria again

September 28, 2016

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Information travels fast. Social media, as it so often does, has once again stirred up a gargantuan of a rumor mill regarding musical state of affairs amongst band members. The victim? Modern metalcore veterans Asking Alexandria. The cause of this was nothing but a drink. Yes, a drink. Drank almost a handle of Jameson […]

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EP: Stick To Your Guns – ‘Better Ash Than Dust’

September 27, 2016

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2016 is a year of firsts for Stick To Your Guns. Aside from signing with new (and frankly, better fitting) label, Pure Noise Records, Better Ash Than Dust is the first release from the band to be an EP rather than a full-length. Fans may be bummed that they aren’t getting ten or eleven new songs […]

Of Mice & Men – Cold World album review 2016

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ALBUM: Of Mice & Men – ‘Cold World’

September 9, 2016

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The leaders of the late 2000’s metalcore scene have been finding various ways of progressing onward from a strictly ‘core-influenced sound. With the death of one trend comes the birth of another which brings the topic of more ‘mature’ music styles to light. Since figuring out there’s more to being heavy than breakdowns, Of Mice […]

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ALBUM: Sylar – “Help!”

August 26, 2016

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Help – It’s an alarming word. A word that is never used lightly on its own merits. In order for a person to ask for help, they must believe that they alone cannot accomplish a task. With that in mind, it should be clear that asking for such assistance is the very definition of exhausting […]

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Exotype release new single “No Solace”

August 15, 2016

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Exotype have been a centerpiece in the underground heavy music media for a few weeks now. It’s likely if you’re reading this that you’ve heard the story of the band splitting from their former label, Rise Records, due to disagreements within.Everyone and their brother, twin sister and half-cousin have contributed some form of opinion or […]

Crown The Empire – Retrograde 2016 album review

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ALBUM: Crown The Empire – ‘Retrograde’

July 25, 2016

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Taking a big, bold step into the unknown is the main theme of the new Crown The Empire album, Retrograde. For the band, this means a major change of direction. For the fans, this means uncertainty. Depending on how the average listener of Crown The Empire’s past albums decides to look at Retrograde‘s departure from […]

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ALBUM: I See Stars – ‘Treehouse’

June 17, 2016

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The most noteworthy point that can be made about I See Stars is that they have always seeked to change the way music as a whole is looked at. In an age where genre splicing is as common as explosions in a Michael Bay movie, the I See Stars boys have used trends and modern […]

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SINGLE: Crown The Empire – “Zero”

June 13, 2016

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Crown The Empire are certainly one of the more interesting musical acts to come out of the past decade, though they recently denounced being just that – an act. Yes, after being shackled under chains of strictly conceptual music, the Texan five-piece are now looking to be nothing more than themselves rather than characters trapped […]

Devildriver trust no one 2016 album review

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ALBUM: Devildriver – ‘Trust No One’

May 12, 2016

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It’s hard to listen to the new Devildriver record and not recognize a superior killing machine in a mode of complete annihilation. Despite major line-up changes that occurred after the Winter Kills album cycle, the band we hear on Trust No One is very much still the DevilDriver fans know and love, but enhanced to […]

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