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Esquire Ali X Worldcoast – 1919 (Album Review)

Ben Schlotthauer
Esquire Ali and Worldcoast have brought us an album that is a constant banger after another. While this is not the first time the duo have collaborated, this is the first full length that the two have released. Their new album, titled 1919 was released on 1/9/19, hence the name. In a way this album […]

REVIEW: Sylar – ‘Seasons’

Matthew Powers
On their third full-length, rap-rockers Sylar pack an arsenal of stadium-ready riffs and a shot of tried-and-true to initiate their change in “Seasons”. After declaring “Help!” in 2015, Sylar are detailing the next step in moving forward on their new record, Seasons – change. Beginning down the path to alternative metal and pure rap-rock from the […]

REVIEW: Ice Nine Kills – ‘The Silver Scream’

Matthew Powers
Ice Nine Kills bring a sense of fun and inspired frenzy to metalcore on horror movie-inspired romp, ‘The Silver Scream’. This is a band that loves the b-movie style of over-the-top humor and gore found in the 70’s and 80’s, so it makes total sense that they would encompass such a topic on their fifth […]

ALBUM: The Wise Man’s Fear – “The Lost City”

Matthew Powers
On their sophomore “sequel” effort, ‘The Lost City’, Indiana’s The Wise Man’s Fear find ways to be both brutal and beautiful, sometimes in the same minute. Preferring a strict metalcore approach over the current trends in the wider expanses of their scene, TWMF play a cinematic and crushing form of the genre dubbed “fantasycore”, grabbing […]

ALBUM: Volumes – ‘Different Animals’

Matthew Powers
Having been looked to as standouts in the prog metal derived, time-signature tortured djent movement, Los Angeles’ urban hooligans known as Volumes have returned after a three year silence. With a slightly different lineup, extra layers and a bit of new flavor, we have been given the band’s third full-length, “Different Animals”. What’s on offer […]

ALBUM: Our Last Night – ‘Selective Hearing’

Matthew Powers
Being the prime example of a contemporary post-hardcore group, Our Last Night have spent a copious amount of time honing their sound. Choosing to focus on releasing admittedly solid covers of anything from current pop hits to 60’s rock classics the last two years, these hard-working fellas took their time in pushing new original material […]

ALBUM: Motionless In White – ‘Graveyard Shift’

Matthew Powers
On ‘Graveyard Shift’, Scranton, PA spooks Motionless In White are simultaneously the same band you remember from 2010’s smash metalcore hit, ‘Creatures’ and their newer (re)incarnation. However, they’re also equipped with the proper tools to welcome in a whole new assortment of guests to their metal haunted house. It all started with a mouse..   […]
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