EspyRock

I hate it when the good songs on an album don’t come in until either the fifth or sixth song. That is the case with Taproot’s latest full-length, ‘The Episodes.’ The first four songs consist of stupid alternative rock mixed with nu-metal guitar riffs that made it hard to get through the album in one [...]

A review of the latest Soulfly album, Enslaved

2011 has seen some of the best releases from musicians of all genres. These are my top 11 albums of 2011. *Disclaimer: Originally I set out to put these in some sort of order though after listening to each album through again, I decided that I couldn’t. The order reflects on how much I listened [...]

Many were concerned when Frank Carter left Gallows and even more concerned when former guitarist/vocalist of the recently disbanded Alexisonfire stepped up to the position as vocalist for the hardcore band that many consider to be very British.

When  Blessthefall’s new album ‘Awakening’ came out I jumped on the chance to review it. I’ve never loved them, but goddamn ‘To Hell and Back’ is a great song.  I thought that maybe if they could keep that same energy and heavy sound then they could be good. ‘Awakening’ however tries to sound like an [...]

The only other Annotations of an Autopsy CD I’ve ever listened to is ‘The Reign of Darkness’. I thought it was a great mix of tough guy hardcore and death metal. I remember thinking it was one of the most brutal pieces of music I’ve ever heard and that I needed to begin listening to [...]

I’ve always had a hard time getting into All Shall Perish. Perhaps it’s the stigma of people describing them to me as a deathcore band. If you tell me a band is deathcore before I listen to them, I have a hard time getting that out of my head. It isn’t that I hate deathcore, [...]