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7.4

ALBUM: Motionless In White – ‘Graveyard Shift’

May 5, 2017

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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9

ALBUM: While She Sleeps – ‘You Are We’

April 27, 2017

Michael Bird

That the best new heavy band of the last decade had to resort to a Pledge Music fund to get their new album out is evidence that a) the music industry is broken and b) there is no justice in the world. After setting the world of metalcore ablaze in 2012 with debut This Is […]

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9

ALBUM: Falling In Reverse – ‘Coming Home’

April 11, 2017

Matthew Powers

The album art for Falling In Reverse’s new and fifth full-length, “Coming Home”, is a decidedly minimalistic zoomed-in portrait of a space helmet. Are the quirky Nevada-based pop-punk/whatever other genre they fancy-core outfit gunning for the prog genre? Not quite. Even though these songs aren’t about space, they’ll make you think of its vast expanses […]

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8.2

ALBUM: Northlane – ‘Mesmer’

April 11, 2017

Michael Bird

NEW NORTHLANE! OUTTA NOWHERE! Well, it had been obvious something was coming from the steady trickle of tracks the band dropped over the last few months, but they and the team behind them deserve props for keeping Mesmer a pretty well kept secret before it was unleashed on an unsuspecting world. This does create a […]

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7.2

ALBUM: ONE OK ROCK – ‘Ambitions’

January 27, 2017

Michael Bird

They’re so big in their native Japan that Fall Out Boy are supporting them on their upcoming tour. But you’d be forgiven for not having heard of ONE OK ROCK before now, as they’ve never earned as much attention from Western listeners as Babymetal or even Crossfaith. The game plan of new album Ambitions is to […]

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7.6

Palisades’ personal new self-titled record will be stuck in your head and in your heart

January 20, 2017

Matthew Powers

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4

ALBUM: Attila – ‘Chaos’

November 7, 2016

Michael Bird

Thousands, if not millions of people are either outraged by them, or think they’re moronic. They show complete disregard for this, and only seem to thrive on the hate, attracting a bizarrely obsessive cult of followers despite the scorn poured on them by mainstream (i.e. sensible) thinkers. They draw large live crowds and entertain a […]

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8.4

ALBUM: Memphis May Fire – ‘This Light I Hold’

October 31, 2016

Michael Bird

Bring Me the Horizon have ‘gone pop’. Of Mice & Men have gone KROQ. Asking Alexandria… well lord knows what’s happening with them right now, but if Danny Worsnop is back for good then it wouldn’t be surprising if they went further down the rock ‘n’ roll route they’d tapped into as early as Reckless […]

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9.2

ALBUM: Avenged Sevenfold – ‘The Stage’

October 28, 2016

Matthew Powers

Judging by the fact that Avenged Sevenfold’s seventh full-length’s existence was revealed and confirmed not even a day ago, it’s safe to assume that the record must be good. For the band to forego the typical industry process of establishing a “hype” period for the record by launching pre-orders and instead choosing to ship directly […]

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8.9

ALBUM: The Devil Wears Prada – ‘Transit Blues’

October 13, 2016

Matthew Powers

One thing a listener can pick up by listening to Ohio metalcore elite, The Devil Wears Prada, is that their music isn’t made to fly to the top of the active rock charts. They don’t write songs to appeal to an audience that listens for nothing more than a sing-a-long No, their brand of heavy […]

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