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ALBUM: I See Stars – ‘Treehouse’

June 17, 2016

Matthew Powers

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

Matthew Powers

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 […]

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ALBUM: Beartooth – ‘Aggressive’

June 3, 2016

Michael Bird

The great advantage that Caleb Shomo had when he first unleashed the primal fury of Beartooth on the world was the lack of expectations surrounding the project. His humble beginnings as the keyboardist, and eventual vocalist and mastermind, of crabcore punch line Attack Attack! were hardly an impressive résumé. Now that we know how good […]

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EP: Vacive – ‘Personalities’

June 3, 2016

Michael Bird

Once upon a time, your favourite band was a local band. In some cases it’s hard to imagine; picturing an unsigned Slipknot ripping through “Wait and Bleed” and “Surfacing” in a dingy pub is a difficult image to conjure up. If anything, discovering a band in their nascent stages is the most exciting thing a […]

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ALBUM: Architects – ‘All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us’

May 27, 2016

Michael Bird

This November, the UK’s finest modern metal band will headline London’s Brixton Academy. If they sell it out – which they more than deserve to – they’ll be playing to 5000 people. The last time Architects played the venue was in 2011, not long after the release of The Here and Now, which at the […]

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ALBUM: Issues – ‘Headspace’

May 20, 2016

Michael Bird

One of the great paradoxes of rock culture today is that for for all the genre’s heritage of rebellion and rejecting the establishment, it breeds an awful lot of conservative thinking. If a band dares to push themselves musically or, shock horror, dabble in a genre beyond their norm, the instant reaction of a battalion […]

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ALBUM: Pierce The Veil – ‘Misadventures’

May 13, 2016

Alex Lizette

After months of waiting impatiently, which eventually turned into years, Pierce The Veil is finally out with their fourth full-length album Misadventures. The four year wait for this album created a tremendous amount of anxiousness, but now that it’s out, all there’s to do is listen to it on repeat for the next few months […]

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ALBUM: Devildriver – ‘Trust No One’

May 12, 2016

Matthew Powers

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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ALBUM: Fallujah – ‘Dreamless’

May 4, 2016

Michael Bird

Atmospheric death metal. On paper, it’s an incongruous mash-up of genres that should work about as well as crunkcore did; in practice, it’s an approach to extreme music that has made Fallujah one of the most exciting names in the scene. Their second LP, 2014’s The Flesh Prevails, was much lauded in the world of […]

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ALBUM: PVRIS – ‘White Noise (Deluxe Version)’

April 26, 2016

Alex Lizette

Two years since their first full length album release, PVRIS have released a deluxe version of White Noise via Rise Records. The renewed album includes two new tracks, “You And I” and “Empty”, along with a stripped version of “You And I”. With deluxe editions it’s common to just throw in the new tracks at the end, but […]

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