Album Reviews

Album Review: Decadence-Chargepoint

Posted by Miguel on October 30, 2009 at 2:25 am

Ignoring the fact that Decadence have a hot chick for a singer (she’s the growly type, FYI), this new album of theirs is a savage thrash beast filled to the brim with utterly smokin’ guitar play from uncelebrated six-string wizard Ken Latz and the deadliest machinegun tempos to emerge from Europe in a long while. [...]

Album Review: Atreyu-Congregation of the Damned

Posted by Natalie on October 27, 2009 at 8:07 pm

American metalcore has been tossed around for a while now since its formation. So out of the wide range of bands that fall into this genre, what band has proven themselves worthy enough of being known as this genre? One band that pops into my head is a small town act straight out of Orange [...]

Album Review: Barren Earth-Our Twilight

Posted by Natalie on October 23, 2009 at 4:49 pm

When fussing together the powers of light and dark what are the ending results? Well why not “Our Twilight” by death metallers Barren Earth.
This effect of progressive folk textured with death metal is an instant inspiration source that has been devoured by absolutely everything from Opeth down to Pink Floyd. The heavier sides consist of [...]

Album Review: Architects-Hollow Crown

Posted by Natalie on October 22, 2009 at 11:12 pm

Architects began like most bands would consider themselves as one type of genre to be thrown from the front of the line to the center to the very back, but where exactly does this leave Architects? Standing precisely in the center of course, since the formation in late 2004, the band has won some great [...]

Album Review: Across The Sun-Pestilence & Rapture

Posted by Natalie on October 18, 2009 at 6:01 pm

When it comes to newbie’s what is to be expected of them, well nothing really because they’re not quite familiar with the whole picture as of yet. But in this case this handful of newbie’s – Brandon Davis (Vocals), Alan Ashcraft (Drums), Shane Murray (Keys), Colin St. Claire (Bass) and Sam Hafer (Guitars), have brought [...]

Album Review: Skeletonwitch-Breathing the Fire

Posted by Natalie on October 9, 2009 at 2:44 pm

Anthens, Ohio has delivered something extreme to the table this year not anything, that they haven’t done before though, this is just a continuation to a past creation, that being “Beyond the Permafrost,” (2007) by metal thrashers Skeletonwitch. The Witch’s almighty return has been a “making in the process” aside from all the numerous touring [...]

Album Review: blessthefall-Witness

Posted by Natalie on October 2, 2009 at 9:24 pm

Blessthefall were nothing but your average high school teenagers with one thing on their mind which was music! After a series of practice sessions that consisted of guitarist Mike Frisby, drummer Matt Traynor, vocalist Craig Mabbitt and bassist Jared Warth. Their founder Miles Bergsma had left to attend college, and the band had gone off [...]

Album Review: Buckcherry-Live & Loud 2009

Posted by Natalie on September 29, 2009 at 8:14 pm

Being a Grammy-nominated act is one thing but being from Los Angeles, California the capitol of the whole music franchise known to man-kind is a whole another story completely. That’s when local hard rockers Buckcherry come into view – forming in 1995 being around for 14 years now, the band has released numerous albums to [...]

Album Review: Hiss Of Atrocities-Rituals of the Lost

Posted by Natalie on September 28, 2009 at 1:34 am

Hiss of Atrocities or (HOA) for short, formed in Boston, Massachusetts in 2005, thus causing these metal masters to display their own creativity in their best format possibly – consisting purely of high powering drum tactics, blended in well with unrelenting guitar riffs with expecting guitar solos thrown in between, pouring out this sound fueled [...]

Album Review: AFI-Crash Love

Posted by Natalie on September 24, 2009 at 11:06 pm

A Fire Inside or AFI for short, have been around for the past 18 years unleashing upon the music scene seven LPs to date with their eighth “Crash Love,” on the way. But the deal with AFI is a simple known fact, they’ve never seem to stick out with the same sound for more than [...]