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The Unleashed Tour – Skillet, Sick Puppies, Devour The Day – Silver Spring, MD – 10.13.16

October 17, 2016

Luis Rosales

Embarking on a tour for the newly release album Unleashed, Skillet made their way for the second half with Sick Puppies joining the tour along with Devour The Day opening each night. The Fillmore Silver Spring was up next to host this incredible show as lines wrapped around the block during the hour between doors […]

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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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9.5

ALBUM: Sum 41 – ’13 Voices’

October 7, 2016

Matthew Powers

After nearly dying from alcohol abuse, Sum 41 Deryck Whibley felt inspired to turn to that which has always been a means of catharsis for him – Music. He was so inspired in fact that out of this inspiration came an entirely new Sum 41 record, a prospect that seemed nigh impossible in the wake […]

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8.4

ALBUM: Dance Gavin Dance – ‘Mothership’

October 7, 2016

Michael Bird

It’s not unfair to say that expectations generally weren’t high the last time we got a new Dance Gavin Dance record. After the misstep of 2013’s Acceptance Speech, which came off the back of three vocalist changes within five years, you’d be forgiven for having written them off. But just as post-hardcore brethren Silverstein relaunched […]

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Unbreakable Tour – Silver Spring, MD – 10.4.16

October 6, 2016

Luis Rosales

It’s a rare moment when bands from another country tour North America more than once a year, and Parkway Drive managed to hit a U.S. tour three times this year alone.  This time they brought along We Came As Romans and Counterparts to open up for them here at The Fillmore in Silver Spring, MD.  For this […]

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

September 27, 2016

Matthew Powers

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 […]

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ALBUM: Taking Back Sunday – ‘Tidal Wave’

September 19, 2016

Michael Bird

After years of chasing their tails, trying to replicate the charms of Tell All Your Friends and assuredness of Louder Now to no avail, Long Island’s second best post-hardcore band finally produced an album that lived up to their first three in Happiness Is, after realising that they didn’t need to repeat themselves ad infinitum […]

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ALBUM: Bastille – ‘Wild World’

September 13, 2016

Michael Bird

Damn it, Dan. Your band could be so good. Granted, you were the least interesting of the Class of 2013 neo-indie big hitters; outshined by The 1975’s sensual swagger, the Vegas glitz of Imagine Dragons, and the eccentric Haim sisters. But you had something, and that something has made your band extremely popular. At the […]

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ALBUM: Of Mice & Men – ‘Cold World’

September 9, 2016

Matthew Powers

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: A Day to Remember – ‘Bad Vibrations’

September 5, 2016

Michael Bird

It’s wonderfully typical of A Day to Remember to do what makes the least sense at every opportunity. Unless you’re Patrick Star, you’ll be aware of the band’s trademark fusion of mosh-call metalcore and 2002 pop punk. Scores of naysayers said it didn’t work; scores more people bought their albums. Few bands’ success stories’ have […]

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