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A Day To Remember – And Their Name Was Treason
Posted June 5, 2005, 4 p.m.
We've all done it - you mention a band unfamiliar to your friend and they'll ask "What does it sound like?" and being lazy North ... read more
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A Perfect Circle – A Perfect Circle Live: Featuring Stone and Echo
Posted Feb. 16, 2015, 8:26 a.m.
Writing a review for a live album can be a daunting task. There's only so much you can say about songs presented in a live ... read more
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A Perfect Circle – Eat the Elephant
Posted Oct. 29, 2018, 7:20 p.m.
Regardless of which band Maynard James Keenan is recording, promoting or touring with - he is usually the one unfairly maligned for holding up the ... read more
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A Perfect Circle – Three Sixty
Posted Sept. 7, 2015, 8:58 p.m.
Buying compilation albums are like going to a family reunion. It starts with a sense of misguided obligation and ends with regret for ever having ... read more
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A Second from the Surface – The Streets Have Eyes
Posted Nov. 15, 2007, 8:10 p.m.
Theres been a lot of words used to describe Minneapolis A Second from the Surface: metalcore, grindcore, crustcore. All of them are very specific genres, ... read more
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A Tribe Called Quest – We Got It From Here...Thank You For Your Service
Posted Dec. 19, 2016, 5:21 p.m.
It's been a year of protests. Whether it's regarding the new president-elect, Black Lives Matter, or sitting down during the national anthem, folks are letting ... read more
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A.P.O.S.T.L.E. – Lyrical Activism
Posted June 5, 2008, 10:42 p.m.
So the question is: can you teach without preaching? A.P.O.S.T.L.E. believes you can. Despite the connotations the name might produce, the man knows that once ... read more
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Abel is Dying – Gazing from the Abyss
Posted Feb. 22, 2007, 5:08 p.m.
Lasagna. Pizza. Mario Bava. This is what I think of when I think of Italy. Oh, and the mafia. No wait - that's when I ... read more
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Agrimonia – Rites of Separation
Posted Sept. 30, 2013, 8:26 p.m.
In this day and age, if you're going to write 11-15 minute songs about death, decay and other moribund topics you need to make damn ... read more
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Alcest – Souvenirs D'un Autre Monde
Posted Oct. 22, 2007, 11:34 p.m.
To listen to Souvenirs Dun Autre Monde (which translates into Memories Of Another World) is to experience a world free of pain, darkness, and despair, ... read more
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Alice In Chains – Rainier Fog
Posted Sept. 10, 2018, 9:40 p.m.
It’s been 12 years since Alice In Chains reactivated with vocalist William DuVall - making his time in the band roughly twice that of Layne ... read more
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Amora Savant – The Immaculate Misconception
Posted July 20, 2005, 11:20 a.m.
Sometimes, perspective is a good thing. There's not always time to gain significant perspective, but when you do have the time, it makes an informed ... read more
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Angel Blake – Angel Blake
Posted April 26, 2006, 8:51 p.m.
The Crown was a good band; Angel Blake, not so much. Guitarist Marko Tervonen's decision to record a solo album seemed like an interesting move ... read more
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Angel Eyes – Something to Do with Death
Posted Aug. 14, 2006, 12:24 a.m.
There's not a whole lot you can say about Angel Eyes that hasn't already been said about Isis. If Isis were an actual person, Angel ... read more
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Apiary – Lost In Focus
Posted June 20, 2006, 10:01 p.m.
Lost in Focus is the debut release from a Southern California five-piece know as Apiary. I listen to a lot of music, and have jaded ... read more
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Arcadea – Arcadea
Posted June 26, 2017, 5:52 p.m.
Remember that movie from the 80's where that little rocker kid got sucked into the video game and found himself on that desert planet, where ... read more
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At the Drive-In – In•ter a•li•a
Posted Dec. 11, 2017, 6:10 p.m.
Interminable slack-ass Omar Rodriguez-Lopez only released 12 solo albums this year on Ipecac Records. So to alleviate the presumed guilt, he’s gotten the old band ... read more
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Avenged Sevenfold – Hail To The King
Posted Sept. 2, 2013, 11:53 p.m.
Look on the interweb and you'll find love for Avenged Sevenfold and you'll find hate. A lot of hate. I understand the love, but I don't quite ... read more
News
Bands: Faith No More's Long Awaited Sol Invictus Now Streaming
Posted May 11, 2015, 1:57 p.m.
Faith No More's first album in 18 years is now available for streaming one week ahead of it's official release. Links can be found below. ... read more
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Bands: Ipecac Label Confirms Faith No More Reunion and Patton Scores First Feature Film
Posted Feb. 24, 2009, 4:09 a.m.
Mike Patton (Fantômas, Faith No More, Mr. Bungle, Peeping Tom and the forthcoming Mondo Cane amongst others) has just completed his first major motion film score for the film "Crank 2: High Voltage" (Apr. 17 release). read more
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Bands: Verdict Reached In Gorgoroth Name Dispute
Posted March 10, 2009, 1:48 a.m.
A decision has been reached in the dispute over the rights to the Gorgoroth band name involving founding guitarist Infernus, vocalist Gaahl and bassist King ov Hell. read more
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Bar Kokhba – Lucifer: Book of Angels Vol. 10
Posted Aug. 12, 2008, 12:59 a.m.
On the heels of Xaphan: Book of Angels Vol. 9 (well, preceding it, if you wanna get all chronological with the release dates) we have ... read more
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Beck – Morning Phase
Posted March 10, 2014, 8:05 p.m.
Many musicians can write a sad song. But a sad song is just that. It’s one note - one emotion. Sad-verse-sad-chorus-sad-verse-end. Rare artists can take ... read more
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Black Anvil – As Was
Posted Oct. 16, 2017, 5:59 p.m.
Black Metal as a musical genre is not known for it's subtlety. The pendulum will usually swing between low-fi heavily distorted guitar and blast-beats or ... read more
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Black Flame – Imperivm
Posted March 3, 2009, 2:22 a.m.
Black Flame is an Italian black metal trio that holds the distinction of being one of the first bands signed to Forces of Satan Records, ... read more
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Black Sabbath – 13
Posted June 11, 2013, 1:30 a.m.
Black Sabbath is well, it. They are the genesis of it all. History is divided as B.C. and A.D., to differentiate what came before and ... read more
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Bloody Hammers – Lovely Sort of Death
Posted Jan. 2, 2017, 5:35 p.m.
Bloody Hammers hail from North Carolina and specialize in doom. The band was founded by Anders Manga, who remains the main songwriter and performer - ... read more
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Boxcar Satan & Ghostwriter – Hobo Nouveau
Posted July 29, 2008, 12:12 a.m.
Ill admit - I have a bit of a problem with modern blues. For me, blues, real blues ended in the 1940s with the likes ... read more
News
Breaking News: The Stooges Guitarist Ron Asheton Found Dead
Posted Jan. 6, 2009, 1:09 a.m.
The Stooges guitarist Ronald "Ron" Asheton was found dead in his home in Ann Arbor, Michigan this morning, January 6th, according to police. For more info click "read more." read more
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Brian Posehn – Nerd Rage
Posted Nov. 27, 2005, 7:45 a.m.
Stand-up comedians aren't funny. With very few exceptions, this is a truism that has become stronger and stronger over the years with every "I drive ... read more
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By Night – A Shape of New Desperation
Posted Aug. 7, 2007, 12:08 a.m.
Where to begin, where to begin... For starters theyre Swedish, which would normally be a plus, but in this case it is not because they ... read more
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CJ Ramone – The Holy Spell
Posted Sept. 9, 2019, 11:13 p.m.
As of August 6th, it’s been 23 long, languid year’s since The Ramones played their final show. Since then, all the original members - Joey, ... read more
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Carrie Biell – When Your Feet Hit the Stars
Posted Oct. 10, 2007, 12:02 a.m.
Amy Winehouse. Lily Allen. Jenny Lewis. All are media darlings. Despite any and all current public backlash, neither lady could release an album of humming ... read more
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Cattle Decapitation – Karma. Bloody. Karma
Posted Aug. 21, 2006, 3:27 p.m.
Well what can you say about a group like Cattle Decapitation? First and foremostââ¬Â¦they're not emo. Secondly, they have a new album out called Karma. ... read more
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Celebrity Murders – Time to Kill Space
Posted Jan. 3, 2007, 2:26 p.m.
There are a few music "fans" that may be in denial, but I think most schooled individuals can attest that there is a tremendous dearth ... read more
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Celestia – Apparitia-Sumptuous Spectre
Posted April 3, 2007, 10:54 p.m.
More melody than mayhem, France's Celestia is a band that catches your ear immediately because while they can definitely fly the black flag over their ... read more
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Celtic Frost – Monotheist
Posted July 6, 2006, 2:45 p.m.
There are few bands that had as much of an impact on my youth as Celtic Frost. Rising from the ashes of Hellhammer, Thomas Gabriel ... read more
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Chelsea Wolfe – Hiss Spun
Posted Dec. 18, 2017, 11:55 p.m.
Darkness isn’t something everybody can access within themselves. Some are afraid to explore those shadowy recesses, some deny they exist, and some embrace it and ... read more
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Cherubs – Uncovered by Heartbeat
Posted May 24, 2006, 1:25 p.m.
There's been a trend as of late among American bands to become popular by sounding British, most notably The Killers, The Bravery and Interpol. This ... read more
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Chickenfoot – Chickenfoot
Posted June 22, 2009, 2:04 p.m.
The reviewer of the following album would like to invite his readers to participate in the following drinking game: grab a shot glass, grab a ... read more
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Child Abuse – Child Abuse
Posted Aug. 1, 2007, 11:39 p.m.
Sometimes when a reviewer receives an album, it can be difficult to decide how best to approach the review. The spin so to speak. Is ... read more
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Chosen – Promo 2007
Posted Dec. 11, 2007, 4:02 p.m.
HEY YOU! Metal Blade! Century Media! Lifeforce! Earache! All you record labels down with the metal: LISTEN UP! Chosen is an independent metal band hailing ... read more
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Cnoc An Tursa – The Giants of Auld
Posted April 30, 2013, 12:34 a.m.
I'll admit, I was intrigued by the idea of Scottish Pagan Metal. Even with the full understanding of Pagan Metal by definition of the more ... read more
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Code Orange – Forever
Posted Dec. 18, 2017, 11:41 p.m.
Code Orange are really hardcore. Not the genre, the noun. As a descriptive and an ethos, they wear it well. Forever is the band's first ... read more
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Converge – The Dusk In Us
Posted Dec. 18, 2017, 11:45 p.m.
Out of all the bands painted with the seemingly ubiquitous metalcore tag, Converge seem both the most likely to accept the term graciously and rip ... read more
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Creature Feature – The Greatest Show Unearthed
Posted Feb. 6, 2008, 10:30 p.m.
When reviewing an album, it can be difficult to summarize thoughts and feeling elicited from the music youre listening to, to organize these thoughts and ... read more
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Cross Examination – The Hung Jury
Posted May 9, 2006, 2:40 p.m.
Everybody's so political these days. Protesting this, boycotting that. Hell, there are more hippie protest songs out now then there ever was in the 60's. ... read more
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Crystal Fairy – Crystal Fairy
Posted July 4, 2017, 10:33 a.m.
Buzz Osbourne has nothing left to prove. His band, Melvins have sustained the ravages of time and, perhaps even more impressively, the ravages of the ... read more
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Cunts – Cunts
Posted Dec. 2, 2019, 9:54 p.m.
Calling your band “Cunts” and releasing some sort of grindcore or blackened death album wouldn’t really be a big shocker. It wouldn’t take a whole ... read more
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D.O.A. – We Come In Peace
Posted May 6, 2013, 11:44 p.m.
in·sti·tu·tion noun \?in(t)-st?-?tü-sh?n, something or someone firmly associated with a place or thingThere are few bands around that can be considered any kind of institution for ... read more
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Darkthrone – The Underground Resistance
Posted Feb. 26, 2013, 12:27 a.m.
There's not a whole hell of a lot to be said about Darkthrone that is not already legend. Having survived the Norwegian Black Metal Scene ... read more
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Dead Cross – Dead Cross
Posted July 24, 2017, 9:34 p.m.
When ex-Slayer drummer Dave Lombardo announced a new hardcore project, this reviewer was on board. When Lombardo later announced that the new vocalist for his ... read more
Blogs
Dead Cross Tear It Up At Denver's Ogden Theatre
Posted Sept. 26, 2017, 1:13 p.m.
Dead Cross September 23, 2017 Ogden Theatre, Denver "Hello, we are Dead Cross and we are not gluten-free." - Mike Patton Usually by the end of a tour, a band can seem a bit rote. A bit tired. A bit cranky. But despite Dead Cross saving the last date ... read more
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Death Breath – Let it Stink
Posted Sept. 27, 2007, 7:44 p.m.
Alright, lets look at the stats: Name: Death Breath. A truly ridiculous name for a band of any genre Albums: Stinking Up the Night, Let ... read more
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Death From Above – Outrage! Is Now
Posted Sept. 18, 2017, 10:25 p.m.
So long, 1979. D.F.A. are back without the tag and without the chronological baggage that came along with their previous album, 2014's The Physical World. A ... read more
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Death Valley Girls – Darkness Rains
Posted Nov. 26, 2018, 8:43 p.m.
Of all the phrases ever used to describe Ramones, “re-inventing the wheel” was most certainly not one of them. Some took this as disparaging, but what ... read more
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Deicide – The Stench of Redemption
Posted Dec. 29, 2006, 2:06 p.m.
My only beef is with God. I wake up every day, I curse Him every day, because there is only on person who's responsible for ... read more
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Denner/Shermann – Satan's Tomb EP
Posted Dec. 14, 2015, 8:25 a.m.
Murray/Smith King/Hanneman Tipton/Downing These are just a few of the lead guitar duos from Iron Maiden, Slayer and Judas Priest respectively, that dominated heavy metal music of the ... read more
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Diamanda Galás – Guilty Guilty Guilty
Posted June 3, 2008, 7:34 a.m.
Diamanda Galás is unlike any artist in music. Take a moment and think about this. That statement is not embellishment. It is not fanboy bias. ... read more
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Drowningman – Don't Push us When We're Hot
Posted Oct. 10, 2005, 4 p.m.
I'll admit, when I first heard of Drowningman back in the day, I had a whole lot of preconceived notions. It was in a magazine, ... read more
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Dust is Everywhere – Attics and Catacombs
Posted May 26, 2008, 5:35 p.m.
Dust is Everywhere. D.I.E. Get it? [cough] Anyway it could be worse. Ask their labelmates, Rumplestiltskin Grinder. D.I.E. is a band in the black metal ... read more
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Eastern Blok – Folk Tales
Posted Nov. 29, 2007, 2:34 p.m.
World music is a funny thing. It begins with the purest of intentions: to invite the listener to explore the country of its origin by ... read more
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Ennio Morricone – Crime and Dissonance
Posted April 12, 2006, 11:58 p.m.
This is a biased review. Fuck you, you don't know me. I refuse to review this on the same bell curve as your lame little ... read more
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Ensemble Pearl – Self Titled
Posted April 23, 2013, 12:22 a.m.
There's soundtracks to the apocalypse and then there's soundtracks to everything afterward. Ensemble Pearl provides the latter. The din and drone as your mind takes ... read more
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Eskimo Joe – Black Fingernails, Red Wine
Posted Dec. 16, 2007, 11:51 p.m.
No one in our band is in it for their ego. Its all about the songs The above is a quote from guitarist Stuart MacLeod ... read more
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Exodus – Let There be Blood
Posted Nov. 4, 2008, 12:57 a.m.
Why re-record your own album almost twenty-five years later? Some, including this reviewer, find the redundancy almost laughable, but yet it appears to be more ... read more
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Exodus – Shovel Headed Kill Machine
Posted Nov. 6, 2005, 9:30 p.m.
We've all heard the stories. Someone leaves your favorite band and the remaining members have two choices.... carry on or pack it in. It doesn't ... read more
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Eyes of Ligeia – A Fever Which Would Cling to Thee Forever
Posted Dec. 25, 2006, 9:02 p.m.
Ask the founding member of Eyes of Ligeia about his band history and you're likely to get this responseââ¬Â¦ In the cursed year 1998 of ... read more
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Faith No More – Sol Invictus
Posted May 11, 2015, 5:55 p.m.
June, 1997.Hanson's Mmmbop was at the top of the charts. Hype was building for James Cameron's soon-to-be-released new film Titanic. Layne Staley and Princess Diana ... read more
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Farmers Market – Surfin U.S.S.R.
Posted May 26, 2008, 5:48 p.m.
Those familiar with Ipecac Recordings know that regardless of the release, whether the listener likes it or not, it will, above all else, be different. ... read more
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Flobots – Fight with Tools
Posted Sept. 20, 2007, 1:58 p.m.
Every era has seen the chocolate/peanut butter combination of music and activism mixed together to create the tasty sensation of protest music. Long derided as ... read more
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Flobots – No Enemies
Posted May 15, 2017, 6 p.m.
pro·testnounˈprōˌtest/A complaint, objection, or display of unwillingness usually to an idea or a course of action.It's been 5 long years since Flobots released their 2012 ... read more
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Flobots – Survival Story
Posted March 7, 2010, 1:23 p.m.
Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels ... read more
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Flobots – The Circle In The Square
Posted Aug. 13, 2012, 11:10 p.m.
“A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most ... read more
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Flotsam and Jetsam – No Place For Disgrace 2014
Posted Dec. 7, 2015, 6:10 p.m.
I can remember very clearly when I first heard of Flotsam and Jetsam. As a young hesher growing up outside of Vancouver, Canada in 1986, ... read more
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Foetus – Love
Posted Sept. 5, 2005, 11:03 a.m.
Fire extinguishing foam, cortisone and physostigmine. All highly relevant in today's society and all created by one man, a man you've never heard of. Clint ... read more
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Foetus – Soak
Posted Dec. 21, 2015, 6:33 p.m.
When you hear the term "industrial" in regards to music from the likes of Nine Inch Nails, Rammstein or Ministry, Foetus (a.k.a. Jim Thirlwell) is ... read more
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Foo Fighters – Concrete and Gold
Posted Oct. 2, 2017, 5:46 p.m.
One thing becomes abundantly clear about 28 seconds into "T-Shirt", the first track off Foo Fighters' ninth studio album Concrete and Gold - this will ... read more
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Foo Fighters – Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace
Posted Sept. 30, 2007, 8:44 p.m.
In their twelve or so years as a band, Foo Fighters have had a more than respectable career. This is equally impressive as it would ... read more
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Foo Fighters – In Your Honor
Posted June 16, 2005, 4 p.m.
"When someone comes up to you and asks which Led Zeppelin album they should buy, you should say 'Physical Graffiti'. And in 20 years, when ... read more
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Foo Fighters – Skin and Bones
Posted Dec. 7, 2006, 7:22 p.m.
Though I can't speak for my colleagues, I find it isn't unusual for an album to be given a great review or a poor review, ... read more
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Foo Fighters – Sonic Highways
Posted Jan. 19, 2015, 5:45 p.m.
With their newest release, Sonic Highways, we aptly find Foo Fighters at an apparent crossroads and no longer content to write and record music in ... read more
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Foo Fighters – Wasting Light
Posted April 11, 2011, 4:07 p.m.
Dave Grohl is a man of the people. For the last 16 years he's been one of the most endearing figures in hard music. Terminally ... read more
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Fueled by Fire – Spread the Fire
Posted Nov. 18, 2007, 11:37 p.m.
Lets not beat around the bush. Despite a valiant effort at bringing thrash back to the masses, Fueled by Fire just arent the ones to ... read more
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GG Allin – My Prison Walls
Posted Aug. 28, 2017, 6:22 p.m.
There's been many words used to describe GG Allin.PunkFelonSado-MasochistShit TerroristOk, in all fairness, that last one was used to describe Mike Patton, but believe me ... read more
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Gaahl's Wyrd – GastiR - Ghosts Invited
Posted May 5, 2020, 8:27 a.m.
Kristian Eivind Espedal, otherwise knows as Ghaahl has been a polarizing fixture on the Norwegian Black Metal scene since the mid 90s, fronting bands such ... read more
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Gaz Coombes – World’s Strongest Man
Posted Nov. 12, 2018, 7:35 p.m.
It’s ironic that an album entitled World’s Strongest Man should show Gaz Coombes at his most vulnerable, but that’s precisely the point. Subverting expectations as ... read more
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General News: Jello Biafra Posts Open Letter To Barack Obama
Posted Dec. 12, 2008, 1:37 p.m.
Re-printed courtesy of Alternative Tentacles dot com is former Dead Kennedys vocalist Jello Biafra's open letter to Barack Obama (with preface) detailing his ideas and advice for the new administration. The letter will be submitted via Change. gov, the Obama administration's transitional website. read more
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Genocide – Apocalyptic Visions
Posted Feb. 21, 2008, 3 p.m.
Wow. These guys really hate Jesus. Well, I mean, they seem to hate a lot of things but they really hate Jesus. This is Genocide. ... read more
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Ghost – Meliora
Posted Aug. 24, 2015, 6:50 p.m.
When Ghost first materialized on the scene in 2010 with their debut album Opus Eponymous, they made quite an impression. First there was the image: ... read more
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Giraffe Tongue Orchestra – Broken Lines
Posted Dec. 26, 2016, 8:21 p.m.
Another week another supergroup, right? Wrong. Nothing is expected on Broken Lines, the debut album from Giraffe Tongue Orchestra (GTO) - the new band featuring ... read more
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Glorior Belli – Manifesting the Raging Beast
Posted Aug. 7, 2007, 12:15 a.m.
See: Obscurus Advocam Just kidding. But lets face it. They are pretty interchangeable, no? Both bands are the vision of French musician Infestuus. Both bands ... read more
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Gogol Bordello – Pura Vida Conspiracy
Posted Nov. 11, 2013, 7:14 p.m.
Gogol Bordello, on their earlier releases, were one of those rare bands that everybody agreed was a must-see live band that and was able to ... read more
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Gojira – Magma
Posted Jan. 2, 2017, 5:30 p.m.
Gojira are an anomaly. Not because they're form France, though French metal is somewhat of a rarity - but Gojira are one of the few ... read more
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Gone is Gone – Echolocation
Posted Dec. 11, 2017, 6:29 p.m.
Mastodon are no stranger to side projects. Hell, guitarist/vocalist Brent Hinds has released two in the last year alone, with his new Legend of the ... read more
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Goon Moon – Licker's Last Leg
Posted Aug. 9, 2007, 8:13 p.m.
Lets not beat around the bush. Lickers Last Leg is the album Queens of the Stone Age should have put out instead of the bands ... read more
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Gorgoroth – Ad Majorem Sathanas Gloriam
Posted Dec. 19, 2006, 3:52 p.m.
Disclaimer: Whenever a reviewer has no idea how to end a review - a more common occurrence than the reader might think - the reviewer ... read more
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Guns N' Roses – Chinese Democracy
Posted Dec. 10, 2008, 11:28 p.m.
Its been fifteen years since the last release from the band known as Guns N Roses seventeen years, thats not a typo seventeen years ... read more
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Hank Williams III – A Fiendish Threat
Posted Dec. 2, 2013, 10:46 p.m.
Those who have had the pleasure of seeing Shelton Hank Williams III perform live know that the man always gives his audience more than their ... read more
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Hank Williams III – Brothers Of The 4x4
Posted Dec. 2, 2013, 10:50 p.m.
There's few artists that have been bent over by their record label more than Hank Williams III. That label was Curb, and they fucked the ... read more
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Hank Williams III – Damn Right, Rebel Proud
Posted Jan. 7, 2009, 1:02 a.m.
We have Taylor Swift and then we have Hank III. The former is the public face of country music today. Sweet, sassy, cute-as-a-button and considered ... read more
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Hank Williams III – Straight to Hell
Posted June 25, 2006, 11:44 a.m.
Weak. Shallow. Lame. Insipid. All of these words have been used at some point (by me) to describe country music. I fucking hate what passes ... read more
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Hell Within – Shadows of Vanity
Posted Aug. 7, 2007, 12:05 a.m.
Taken verbatim from the initial notes of the reviewer: Starts out promisingly enough with Derek Jay beating the snare like he just caught it pooching ... read more
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Hessian – Manégarmr
Posted Sept. 30, 2013, 8:30 p.m.
There are at least two bands named Hessian. As such, one of them is supposed to be referred to as Hessian A.D. I refuse to ... read more
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Hollow Ground – Cold Reality
Posted June 10, 2005, 4 p.m.
An open letter to Hollow Ground and Organized Crime Records I'm not a detective or a mind-reader. I am neither Columbo, Criswell, nor Veronica-fucking-Mars. I'm ... read more
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How it Ends – Beloved
Posted Oct. 2, 2005, 4 p.m.
There's something to be said for bands that get right to the point. Literally within the first ten seconds of "11th and Arch", Philadelphia's How ... read more
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I Killed the Prom Queen – Music for the Recently Deceased
Posted Jan. 30, 2007, 2:52 p.m.
I'm not going to lie to you, kids. I have an affinity for most things from Down Under. I had family who lived there for ... read more
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Iggy & The Stooges – Ready To Die
Posted April 30, 2013, 1:05 a.m.
The death of Ron Asheton in 2009 was a sad day in music. Considered by this critic and many others to be one of the ... read more
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Iggy Pop – Post Pop Depression
Posted March 7, 2016, 5:39 p.m.
When Iggy pop parted ways with The Stooges in the mid-seventies, no one really knew what to expect from the man next. If they had ... read more
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Iggy Pop @ Ellie Caulkins
Posted April 4, 2016, 5:56 p.m.
Iggy Pop Post Pop Depression Tour Ellie Caulkins Opera House Denver, Colorado April 2, 2016 It was a night of anticipation. Iggy Pop was returning to Denver. In an opera house, no less. Considering he invited hundreds of fans on stage with him the last time he rolled through ... read more
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Imani Coppola – The Black and White Album
Posted Jan. 8, 2008, 3:46 p.m.
The lights, the sounds, the excitement If youve ever been to New York City, you know what Im talking about. Regardless of the borough, walking ... read more
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Impious – Holy Murder Masquerade
Posted May 20, 2007, 8:37 p.m.
For the most part, there is no concept to Death Metal other thanââ¬Â¦..well, death. Lofty ideas or "concepts" are usually left to the Power Metal ... read more
Features
Interviews: Ipecac Recordings
Posted Oct. 16, 2010, 11:05 a.m.
When it comes to record labels, what do you think about? Corporate greed? Artist manipulation? Spoonfed demographics? You cynical fucks. Not everybody's out to fleece the masses. Sure, there's lots of independent labels out there that focus on the music, not the money, but while they might have the heart, ... read more
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Jack White – Boarding House Reach
Posted April 16, 2018, 7:40 p.m.
Jack White has always been his own man. With The White Stripes, he cultivated a strong persona - turning blues guitar on its side and ... read more
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Japanese Breakfast – Soft Sounds From Another Planet
Posted Dec. 19, 2017, 12:11 a.m.
All the best albums are made for mood. Some for when you’re feeling happy and carefree, and some for when you’re driving around the city ... read more
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Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine – White People And The Damage Done
Posted Aug. 26, 2013, 10:51 p.m.
Heisenberg's uncertainty principle dictates that nothing in this universe has a truly defined position or trajectory and by trying to define it, the momentum of ... read more
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Johnny Marr – Call the Comet
Posted Nov. 19, 2018, 9:03 p.m.
With the release of his latest effort Call the Comet, Johnny Marr solidifies himself as one of the strongest solo artists in music today. However, ... read more
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Jon Spencer – Spencer Sings The Hits!
Posted Dec. 18, 2018, 11:27 p.m.
Garage rock is a term that no longer gets a lot of usage - dissipating into the ether after the resurgence and seeming demise of ... read more
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Kaada & Patton – Bacteria Cult
Posted March 28, 2016, 10 p.m.
John Erik Kaada and Mike Patton. Two great tastes that taste great together. It's been twelve long years since the pair released Romances - a ... read more
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Kaada – Closing Statements
Posted May 9, 2018, 11:25 p.m.
Whimsical/ˈhwɪm·zɪ·kəl, ˈwɪm-/adjectiveUnusual and alluring. Using imagination in a playful manner.This is admittedly, not a word that would typically be used to describe an album written ... read more
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Kaada – Music for Moviebikers
Posted Dec. 13, 2006, 3:24 p.m.
There are few artists from the last few years that I have enjoyed more than John Erik Kaada. Woefully under-informed was I of his band ... read more
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King Buzzo w/ Trevor Dunn – Gift of Sacrifice
Posted Aug. 3, 2020, 7:54 p.m.
Simon and Garfunkel.Seals and Crofts.Hall and Oates.Captain and Tennille.Some artists just go together. Sure, they might make music on their own. But once they find ... read more
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King Diamond – Give Me Your Soul...Please
Posted July 18, 2007, 11:14 p.m.
When writing reviews, the job of the reviewer is to judge the album on its own merits. Only then and even this is in ... read more
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King Diamond – The Spider's Lullabye (reissue)
Posted April 4, 2016, 6:11 p.m.
When King Diamond's album The Spider's Lullabye, his sixth, was first released in 1995, it was a unique entry in the catalog as it was ... read more
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Kurt Cobain: About a Son – DVD
Posted April 29, 2008, 12:38 a.m.
Documentaries in this day and age have become a dime a dozen. Gone are the days of documentaries as an event i.e. waiting for the ... read more
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L7 – Scatter The Rats
Posted May 6, 2019, 6:37 p.m.
At the height of the Northwest music explosion of the early 90s, L7 were among many bands branded with the ubiquitous tag of “grunge”. They ... read more
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Lafcadio – Kibosh
Posted Aug. 4, 2008, 11:41 p.m.
I truly dont know what to make of this band. Some reviewers might like to scope out the band before claiming the promo (Yes, that's ... read more
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Le Butcherettes – A Raw Youth
Posted Sept. 14, 2015, 8:15 p.m.
"secret consciousness of power is far more delightful than open domination"Dostoevsky - The Adolescent. Le Butcherettes came seemingly from out of nowhere a few years ... read more
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Le Butcherettes @ Summit Music Hall
Posted May 31, 2016, 3:14 p.m.
Les Butcherettes Summit Music Hall Denver, CO July 17, 2015 When Melvins rolled into town in July of 2015, they of course put on a great show. It seemed after that night, however, all anyone could talk about was the opening band and Ipecac labelmates Le Butcherettes. So we find ... read more
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Legend of the Seagullmen – Legend of the Seagullmen
Posted April 9, 2018, 11:40 p.m.
It's easy to be complacent with side projects. At worst, they're self indulgent jam sessions repackaged and sold to indifferent masses. At best, they tend ... read more
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Leonard Cohen – You Want It Darker
Posted Dec. 12, 2016, 7:01 p.m.
David Bowie's passing was a huge blow for most of us. But luckily we had his final release, Blackstar to ease us through the loss.Now, ... read more
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Let Planes Circle Overhead – Let Planes Circle Overhead
Posted April 5, 2006, 7:51 a.m.
Tantric music has its charms, but more often than not, it's boring as shit. What's tantric music you ask? Well I'll tell you, you nosey ... read more
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Living Colour – Shade
Posted Dec. 25, 2017, 4:16 p.m.
When Living Colour toured earlier this year performing their debut album Vivid for the almost 30 year anniversary, a lot of folks were ecstatic, thinking ... read more
Blogs
MC5 Bring The Ruckus to Denver
Posted Oct. 22, 2018, 1:14 p.m.
2018 marks the 50th anniversary of the release of what many consider to be the first proto-punk album in history, Kick Out The Jams. While this may or not be accurate, it was an album unlike anything that came before, and this band from Ann Arbour, Michigan began an aggressive ... read more
News
MP3s: Metallica Single Is Here
Posted Aug. 21, 2008, 1:45 p.m.
Metallica's new single "The Day That Never Comes" is now available for streaming...... Windows Media MySpace Real Media The new album Death Magnetic is scheduled for a worldwide release on Friday, September 12th. read more
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Mad Sin – Sweet and Innocent? Loud & Dirty!
Posted Sept. 24, 2005, 11:51 a.m.
First released in 1998 und das Vaterland, Mad Sin's album Sweet and Innocent? Loud & Dirty! finally gets a "proper release" on North American Shores, ... read more
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Malignancy – Inhuman Grotesqueries
Posted Oct. 31, 2007, 8:39 p.m.
a) Neglected Rejection b) Benign Reabsorption c) Predicated Malformations d) Embryological Teratomas Okay, heres how it works - you guess which ones are actual titles ... read more
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Manes – How the World Came to an End
Posted Oct. 29, 2007, 12:35 a.m.
Linkin Park, by and large, are looked upon as a joke. With few exceptions, they are loved solely by young fans who really dont know ... read more
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Marillion – F.E.A.R.
Posted Nov. 14, 2016, 8:04 p.m.
For a Marillion fan, a new album isn’t just a release – it’s an event. And as far as events go, on an ascending scale ... read more
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Marillion – Happiness is the Road Volume 1: The Essence
Posted Dec. 30, 2008, 1:32 p.m.
In their twenty-six-year or so history, Marillion have never released a shitty album. Think of other bands that have been around; can they make the ... read more
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Marillion – Happiness is the Road Volume 2: The Hard Shoulder
Posted Dec. 30, 2008, 1:37 p.m.
...and with volume two in the "Happiness is the Road" series, Marillion has the ship back on course. Kicking open the door with Thunder Fly, ... read more
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Marillion – Somewhere Else
Posted May 6, 2007, 2:26 p.m.
Throughout their over twenty-five year history, Marillion and their music have maintained what many thought impossible: prog without pretension. This has been a key component ... read more
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Marilyn Manson – Heaven Upside Down
Posted Dec. 19, 2017, 12:22 a.m.
It's a different world than when Manson made his debut over two decades ago and scared the shit out of everyone. He scared us because ... read more
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Mark Lanegan – Sing Backwards and Weep
Posted April 28, 2020, 4:09 a.m.
“If I was honest, there was nothing but shame in the way I lived my life. I was nothing if not an abject failure, a ... read more
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Mark Lanegan – Straight Songs Of Sorrow
Posted May 11, 2020, 8:33 p.m.
Mark Lanegan didn’t set out to write a new album, but after finishing writing his memoir, Sing Backwards and Weep (Out now from Hatchette Books), ... read more
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Mastodon – Crack the Skye
Posted April 9, 2009, 11:38 p.m.
Water. Earth. Russian monarchy? While Mastodons previous albums Leviathan and Blood Mountain deal with two of the four elements, their newest, Crack the Skye, deals ... read more
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Mastodon – Emperor of Sand
Posted March 21, 2017, 6:15 p.m.
There have been few bands as exciting to watch their ascension into music legend than Mastodon. What's that you say? No, the term 'legend' is ... read more
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Matadors – Flame the Whisper
Posted Aug. 7, 2007, 12:18 a.m.
Yippeeeee! Its Matadors time! Plug it in and lets party like its 1992! Yes, thats right. 1992! Forget those bands of way back when. Gas ... read more
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Matt Cameron – Cavedweller
Posted Dec. 18, 2017, 11:50 p.m.
Matt Cameron has long been the kind of drummer that most drummers wish they were. Seemingly able to play anything - to bounce from project-to-project ... read more
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Mayhem – Ordo Ad Chao
Posted April 25, 2007, 7:19 p.m.
Black Metal: (n) a subgenre of heavy metal music that uses screamed Satanic lyrics, fast guitar playing and drumming, and heavily distorted music with a ... read more
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Me First and the Gimme Gimmes – Have Another Ball
Posted Sept. 9, 2008, 11:46 p.m.
Weve all been to parties where theres always one guy. One drunk asshole to pooch the proceedings. Either hes slobbering all over you, back slaps ... read more
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Metallica – Death Magnetic
Posted Sept. 15, 2008, 3:35 p.m.
The Metallica debate has been one of the most hotly contested that music has ever seen. Pro or Anti. Sellouts or one of the few ... read more
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Metallica – Hardwired...to Self Destruct
Posted Nov. 21, 2016, 7:32 p.m.
8 years. Jesus. That’s the same length of time as Barack Obama’s two-term administration. That’s the entire lifespan of an 8 year old child. That’s ... read more
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Metallica – Through The Never Soundtrack
Posted March 30, 2015, 8:04 p.m.
You had to be there. In the grand scheme of box-office existence, Through The Never was a blip. The release was limited, as was apparently, ... read more
Blogs
Metallica Ride Out The Lightning in Denver
Posted June 9, 2017, 12:40 p.m.
Metallica Sports Authority Field at Mile High - Denver, Colorado June 7, 2017 The storm was supposed to roll through early - before opening acts Volbeat and Avenged Sevenfold took the stage. It did. But as is often the case in Colorado, Mother Nature always has a few tricks up ... read more
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Mike Patton – A Perfect Place
Posted April 23, 2008, 1:03 a.m.
Its been no secret that for quite some time now, Mike Patton has wanted to broaden his ever-widening horizons into the world of film scoring. ... read more
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Ministry Show No Signs Of Stopping In Denver
Posted Oct. 30, 2017, 8:58 p.m.
Ministry Fillmore Auditorium Denver, Colorado Oct. 28, 2017 With the passing of Lemmy Kilminster, Al Jorgensen has become the last man standing in regards to what amount of excess the human body can endure. And when Ministry rolled into town on Sunday, Uncle Al made it clear that he’s ... read more
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Motörhead – Aftershock
Posted Oct. 21, 2013, 6:53 p.m.
Motörhead have the blues. Sure, they've worn their influences on their sleeves for the entirety of their 40 year career. But on Aftershock, the band's ... read more
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Motörhead – Bad Magic
Posted Aug. 31, 2015, 11:02 p.m.
It's been 40 years since the world was first introduced to the name of Motörhead. In that 40 years, they have become seemingly invincible. Impervious ... read more
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Mudhoney – Digital Garbage
Posted Dec. 10, 2018, 9:58 p.m.
2018 marks the 30th year of existence for Seattle stalwarts, Mudhoney. 30 years on for most bands usually means one or two tired original members ... read more
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Mudhoney – Vanishing Point
Posted March 25, 2013, 11:42 p.m.
25 years later, Mudhoney still know how to kick out the jams. Drummer Dan Peters gets the festivities started with a drum-roll, no less and ... read more
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Municipal Waste – The Art of Partying
Posted Sept. 6, 2007, 1:35 p.m.
Municipal Waste likes to party. How do I know this? Well, theres the album title. Couple that with songs like Beer Pressure, Born to Party, ... read more
Features
Music: Ipecac Recordings 20th Anniversary
Posted Nov. 24, 2019, 1:35 p.m.
In the 20 years since Ipecac Records spewed its way into the public consciousness, it has achieved the impossible. It has continued to make money ... read more
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Music: Music History: Beginner's Blues (I)
Posted Oct. 16, 2010, 11:05 a.m.
PART I: Beginner's Blues In the beginning... There was silence. For the first seven years of my existence, silence. Then one day, a strange thing happened. I began to notice sounds coming up through the furnace vent into my bedroom. Using my powers of deduction that Frank and Joe Hardy ... read more
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Music: Music History: I Was A Teenage Headbanger (II)
Posted Oct. 16, 2010, 11:05 a.m.
PART II: I Was A Teenage Headbanger When I bought Number of the Beast, I immediately knew it would make an excellent addition to my collection. Why? Cuz the cover was so friggin cool, that's why. You see, Eddie ruled over the Devil, and the Devil ruled over the people. ... read more
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Music: Music History: Seminal Moments in History (III)
Posted Oct. 16, 2010, 11:05 a.m.
PART III: Seminal Moments In History Dec. 6, 1986 While at an autograph signing from Cinderella, who were in town opening for David Lee Roth, I tell singer Tom Keifer how awesome he is. He says nothing. Dec. 19, 1986 Waiting for Metallica at their bus, bump into Duke Erikson ... read more
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Music: SPB at the DNC
Posted Oct. 16, 2010, 11:05 a.m.
It's August 27, 2008. The more politically minded of you will recall that date to fall within the time of the DNC ? the Democratic National Convention in Denver, CO where I currently reside. The idea of this event was fascinating to me. I come from Canada. We don't have ... read more
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Music: The Horror
Posted Oct. 16, 2010, 11:05 a.m.
Fear ['fea(r)]: noun; a distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, evil, pain, etc., whether the threat is real or imagined; the feeling or condition of being afraid. Horror ['ho-r e(r)] : noun; an overwhelming and painful feeling caused by something frightfully shocking, terrifying, or revolting; a shuddering fear. Whether it's something ... read more
Reviews
Mötley Crüe – Saints of Los Angeles
Posted Dec. 28, 2008, 11:29 p.m.
Sometimes you just want to tear something down, rip it to shreds. To have that attitude when reviewing an album is fucked up, no question. ... read more
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Nails – Abandon All Life
Posted Sept. 2, 2013, 11:50 p.m.
The only reason Metallica is supposedly used as a torture tactic in Guantanamo is because the C.I.A. doesn't know about Nails. I mean that to sound neither ... read more
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Nebelhexë – Essensual
Posted Nov. 5, 2007, 2:32 p.m.
For those who find Evanescences Amy Lee too goth and Sarah Brightman not quite goth enough, we have Norways Andrea Haugen a.k.a. Nebelhexë. Now, Neb, ... read more
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Neshamah – Communicating in Heartbeats
Posted Oct. 31, 2005, 8:44 p.m.
If you ask me, there's no musical genre more ripe to be picked from the tree of potential and placed into the basket of commercial ... read more
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Nevermen – Nevermen
Posted March 21, 2016, 10:31 p.m.
The list of people that Mike Patton has collaborated with over the years is as long as it is diverse. Not so diverse however, that ... read more
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New York Dolls – One Day it Will Please Us to Remember Even This
Posted Sept. 6, 2006, 10:54 p.m.
Okay, let's run down the list, shall we? Billy Murcia (1951 - November 6, 1972) Johnny Thunders (July 16, 1952 - April 23, 1991) Jerry ... read more
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Ghosteen
Posted Oct. 21, 2019, 10:33 p.m.
There’s nothing more personal than grief. It affects us all in different ways, but the one commonality often tends to be the insular. We retreat ... read more
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Push The Sky Away
Posted May 20, 2013, 9:49 p.m.
Nick Cave is an uncaring bastard.He doesn't care if you buy his new album Push The Sky Away, nor does he care if you like it. Of ... read more
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Skeleton Tree
Posted Oct. 31, 2016, 6:30 p.m.
When it was announced that Nick Cave was releasing a new album Skeleton Tree to accompany the release of his documentary One More Time With ... read more
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Nine Inch Nails – With Teeth
Posted June 5, 2005, 4 p.m.
Pretty Hate Machine, The Downward Spiral, The Fragile - you name any of these titles to a Nine Inch Nails fan and they could probably ... read more
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Nirvana – In Utero (20th Anniversary Reissue)
Posted Oct. 29, 2013, 2:13 a.m.
Some anniversary reissues are like tapas. Small, manageable servings of exactly what you want and you wind up leaving utterly satisfied. Others are like going ... read more
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Nirvana – Unplugged in New York
Posted Dec. 13, 2007, 4:23 p.m.
At the risk of sounding like a filthy hippie droning on about the sixties and how you had to be there to understand it, the ... read more
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Northern State – Can I Keep This Pen?
Posted Jan. 4, 2008, 1:09 a.m.
Can I Keep This Pen? is Northern States third full-length album and it proves that any and all naysayers dismissing the group as a novelty ... read more
News
Obituaries: Legendary Danzig/Social Distortion Drummer Chuck Biscuits Loses Battle With Throat Cancer
Posted Oct. 29, 2009, 1:49 a.m.
James Greene Jr., a freelance music writer from New York has reported that drummer Chuck Biscuits has died, losing his battle with cancer on October 24th, 2009 . Greene recieved an e-mail from an anonymous family member this morning stating “In response to the inquires, thank you for all the ... read more
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Obituaries: Lux Interior (R.I.P.)
Posted Feb. 4, 2009, 11:27 a.m.
Lux Interior, lead singer of the legendary punk group The Cramps, passed away this morning. Click "read more" for the offical press release from his management. read more
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Obituaries: Ministry / Killing Joke Bassist Paul Raven Dies At 46
Posted Oct. 20, 2007, 2:54 p.m.
Ministry / Killing Joke bassist Paul Raven was found dead today in a private home in a small French village on the Swiss border after suffering an apparent heart attack. Raven was in Geneva working with French recording artists Treponem Pal on their new release alongside drummer Ted Parsons (Prong) and ... read more
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Obscurus Advocam – Verbia Daemonicus
Posted Aug. 7, 2007, 12:11 a.m.
Ive been told that France has been home to a few good bands over the years, but like you, aside from Air Id be hard ... read more
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Old Funeral – Our Condolences (1988-1992)
Posted Feb. 10, 2014, 8:26 p.m.
The history of Black Metal has been told ad infinitum. We know that groups like Venom, Posessed, Mercyful Fate and Sarcofago planted the seeds that ... read more
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Omnium Gatherum – New World Shadows
Posted March 7, 2011, 12:33 p.m.
As I listen to New World Shadows, the latest opus from Finland's Omnium Gatherum, I am awash in triumphant and majestic riffs that are far ... read more
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One Question Interviews: Agrimonia
Posted June 13, 2014, 1:11 p.m.
Pontus (Agrimonia) SPB: What makes death metal - or metal in general - so prevalent in Sweden? Pontus: I think there is a huge music ... read more
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Ophiolatry – Transmutation
Posted March 10, 2009, 1 a.m.
Ophiolatry is another band that, like their labelmates Black Flame, is a true force in the black arts to be reckoned with. Ophiolatry (the worship ... read more
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Oren Ambarchi – In the Pendulums Embrace
Posted Feb. 18, 2008, 7:45 p.m.
When I hear this album I smell dust. It might not make sense to you, or to me for that matter, but it is what ... read more
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PJ Harvey – Let England Shake
Posted March 14, 2011, 9:39 a.m.
I got into a discussion with someone recently over the validity of this latest release from Polly Jean Harvey. They seemed almost offended that PJ ... read more
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PJ Harvey – White Chalk
Posted Oct. 14, 2007, 11:36 p.m.
Beginning with her 1992 debut album Dry, much has been made of Polly Jean Harvey seemingly reinventing herself with every release that followed. For anyone ... read more
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Patton Oswalt – Werewolves and Lollipops
Posted Sept. 17, 2007, 2:51 p.m.
For the most part, humor is always subjective. Not in this case, however. If Patton Oswalt doesnt make you laugh, then you, my sad little ... read more
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Pearl Jam – Gigaton
Posted March 9, 2020, 9:31 p.m.
In a culture of such immediate gratification, immediate information, and immediate reaction, seven years is a long time to wait for an album. Seven years ... read more
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Pearl Jam – Lightning Bolt
Posted Oct. 15, 2013, 12:51 a.m.
Nobody and I mean NOBODY involved with or familiar with the Seattle scene back in 1991 would have guessed that Pearl Jam would be, with ... read more
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Peeping Tom – Peeping Tom
Posted June 12, 2006, 7:53 p.m.
It's been a long wait for the debut album of Mike Patton's Peeping Tom project. About six years to be exact, but let's cut him ... read more
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Philm – Harmonic
Posted July 18, 2012, 10:38 a.m.
Philm is not Slayer. Yes, it is a side project of Slayer drummer/legend Dave Lombardo, but it is not Slayer. Lombardo’s other side projects Fantômas ... read more
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Pixies – Head Carrier
Posted Jan. 2, 2017, 5:25 p.m.
When the Pixies released 2014's Indie Cindy, it was their first release in the band's history to not include Bassist/Vocalist Kim Deal. It was evident, ... read more
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Planet B – Planet B
Posted Dec. 3, 2018, 5:22 p.m.
There’s been few bands in recent memory as polarizing as The Locust. Upon the first few listens, they sound like the aural equivalent of severed ... read more
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Porcupine Tree – Fear of a Blank Planet
Posted June 18, 2007, 11:19 p.m.
I've been hoodwinked. Hornswaggled, if you will. Lied to for years. About what, you ask? Well, I'll tell you, you nosey sons of bitches. Porcupine ... read more
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Pretty Girls Make Graves – Élan Vital
Posted Dec. 3, 2006, 1:50 p.m.
When Pretty Girls Make Graves released their 2003 album The New Romance, I didn't think there was any way for it to not make the ... read more
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Primordial – To the Nameless Dead
Posted May 26, 2008, 5:44 p.m.
When I think of folk metal, I think of the scene in This is Spinal Tap with the dwarf dancing around the tiny Stonehenge. This ... read more
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Public Enemy – How You Sell Soul to a Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul???
Posted Sept. 12, 2007, 2:35 p.m.
Soul (noun) : A sense of ethnic pride among Black people and especially African Americans, expressed in areas such as language, social customs, religion, and ... read more
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Queens of the Stone Age – Era Vulgaris
Posted June 21, 2007, 7:41 p.m.
Over the years, Queens of the Stone Age have managed to carve a deep niche into the hard stubbornness of mainstream music. Like his previous ... read more
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Queens of the Stone Age – Like Clockwork
Posted May 27, 2013, 11:06 p.m.
"I blow my load over the status quo - here we go".A reading from the book of Homme. It has been 6 since Queens of the ... read more
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Queens of the Stone Age – Villains
Posted Aug. 21, 2017, 5:51 p.m.
au·da·ciousôˈdāSHəs/adjectiveShowing a willingness to take surprisingly bold risks.The one mission statement that Josh Homme and Queens of the Stone Age has long established was to ... read more
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Queens of the Stone Age Bring the Heat to Colorado
Posted Oct. 11, 2017, 2:21 p.m.
Queens of the Stone Age and Royal Blood Red Rocks Amphitheatre Morrison, Colorado 10.10.2017 It wasn't looking good. In typical Colorado fashion, following a summer-like 76° Sunday, mother nature pulled the ol' switcheroo and unleashed the first snowfall of winter, 2017 on Monday. This is all well and good, ... read more
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Queensrÿche – Condition Hüman
Posted Oct. 5, 2015, 11:27 p.m.
At the time of the release of their eponymous 2013 full-length album, the Geoff Tate storm had passed and cleanup efforts had begun.It was most ... read more
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Queensrÿche – Frequency Unknown
Posted June 11, 2013, 12:58 a.m.
The name on the front of this album says Queensrÿche. It does not say Geoff Tate's Queensrÿche or any other variation. Just Queensrÿche. There is ... read more
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Queensrÿche – Self Titled
Posted June 4, 2013, 12:34 a.m.
An eponymously titled album is somewhat unusual this late into a bands' career and will typically signify that the band in question is, despite all ... read more
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Qui – Love's Miracle
Posted Nov. 13, 2007, 1:57 a.m.
Paul Christensen. Matt Cronk. David Yow. The former two names you have not heard before. The latter name you probably have. The latter name is ... read more
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Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool
Posted Dec. 19, 2016, 5:10 p.m.
A Radiohead album release has become akin to finding folding money under a seat cushion. It doesn't happen often and when it does, it's usually ... read more
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Radiohead – In Rainbows
Posted Dec. 4, 2007, 6:25 p.m.
What Radiohead have done with the release of In Rainbows will be talked about for years to come. At best, and only time will tell, ... read more
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Ramones – It's Alive 1974-1996
Posted Nov. 20, 2007, 2:31 p.m.
The Ramones are finished. Over. Unlike their peers from the 1970s, there will be no reunion tours. Joey, Johnny and Dee Dee have passed on. ... read more
News
Records: Faith No More Drops Sol Invictus May 19th
Posted Feb. 10, 2015, 11:10 a.m.
Sol Invictus, Faith No More’s highly anticipated follow-up to Album of the Year, arrives on May 19 via Reclamation Recordings/Ipecac Recordings. “What I can say ... read more
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Red Fang – Whales And Leeches
Posted Oct. 15, 2013, 12:47 a.m.
There's an untold amount of new bands just waiting to be discovered. Some will be discovered and just as quickly forgotten. Some will be discovered, ... read more
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – The Getaway
Posted Dec. 19, 2016, 5:17 p.m.
The Red Hot Chili Peppers have seen their fair share of detractors over the years. No need to rehash the descriptives here, but the naysayers ... read more
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Rob Zombie – Educated Horses
Posted Aug. 28, 2006, 3:42 p.m.
It's been four and a half years since Mr. Zombie last released an album of new material. That album was The Sinister Urge and I ... read more
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Royal Blood – How Did We Get So Dark?
Posted Dec. 25, 2017, 10:31 p.m.
When English duo Royal Blood released their self-titled debut in 2014, i got into an argument with a friend of mine as to how many ... read more
News
Rumors: Down/Hank III Tour Dates To Be Announced
Posted Jan. 5, 2009, 4:14 p.m.
Down will apparently be teaming up with hellbilly rocker Hank Williams III (Assjack, Superjoint Ritual, Arson Anthem) for a U.S. tour in the spring. The dates are expected to be announced shortly. Also included on the bill are Evil Army and Weedeater. read more
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Saint Vitus – Saint Vitus
Posted May 19, 2020, 7:07 a.m.
On paper, it’s really a miracle Saint Vitus was able to last as long as they did. The forefathers of what became “doom” started out ... read more
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Saul Williams – The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust
Posted Sept. 7, 2008, 11:48 p.m.
Its been over sixteen years since the death of Robert Lee Maupin, otherwise known as Iceberg Slim. An African-American author and poet responsible for works ... read more
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Scanners – Violence is Golden
Posted July 16, 2006, 1:16 p.m.
You, faithful SPB readers as I, listen and tend to prefer music that can best be described as "heavy". This is quite possibly the music ... read more
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Scorpions – MTV Unplugged in Athens
Posted Sept. 21, 2015, 5:43 p.m.
In the interest of full disclosure, this reviewer would like to go on record as saying that he loves The Scorpions. They are exceptional musicians ... read more
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Secret Chiefs 3 – Xaphan: Book of Angels Vol. 9
Posted July 23, 2008, 11:12 p.m.
John Zorn is well on the way to becoming the most prolific artist in music history. Through recordings from Painkiller, Naked City, Masada, and untold ... read more
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Serpe – A Night in Gin's Hollow
Posted May 31, 2006, 3:42 p.m.
I don't think I can do it. I consider myself to be at least a capable writer, but it's going to be hard as hell ... read more
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Shit Outta Luck – Family Tradition
Posted May 26, 2008, 5:37 p.m.
Not to be confused with Haywards Shit Outta Luck, a ska band - this is Milwaukees Shit Outta Luck, a meaty, Midwest hardcore band. The ... read more
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Short Sharp Shock – Short Sharp Shock
Posted March 20, 2007, 5:18 p.m.
Anyone who's read any of my reviews probably has a pretty good idea of my old-school sensibilities when it comes to music. I've been listening ... read more
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Skindraft – Demos
Posted April 10, 2007, 9:11 p.m.
Skindraft's compilation of previous and new demos oddly titled Demos is a very telling slice of a young, new band finding their way in the ... read more
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Slayer – Repentless
Posted Sept. 21, 2015, 5:37 p.m.
Since the 1983 release of Slayer's debut album Show No Mercy, guitarists Jeff Hanneman, Kerry King bassist/vocalist Tom Araya and drummer Dave Lombardo have built ... read more
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Sleaford Mods – Key Markets
Posted Oct. 12, 2015, 5:44 p.m.
"worker bees can leaveeven drones can fly awaythe queen is their slave"- Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club When people talk about music (assuming people actually do still ... read more
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Sleepytime Gorilla Museum – In Glorious Times
Posted Aug. 22, 2007, 4:08 p.m.
If youve never seen Sleepytime Gorilla Museum live, do yourself the favor the next time they come to your town, berg or hamlet. They might ... read more
Blogs
Smashing Pumpkins Bring The Light To Denver
Posted Sept. 10, 2018, 10:59 a.m.
It’s been almost two decades since Billy Corgan, James Iha and Jimmy Chamberlain shared a stage together, and while not a full and complete reunion without bassist D’arcy Wretsky, Denver came out in droves with love and support for Corgan and Co. for the Shiny and Oh So Bright tour. ... read more
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Sol – Let There be a Massacre
Posted Feb. 14, 2008, 12:49 a.m.
You know how to work that evil shit when you can make an accordion sound sinister. Even by the strictest of doom metal standards this ... read more
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Sonic Youth – Rather Ripped
Posted July 25, 2006, 3:03 p.m.
I love Sonic Youth. I've been a fan from the beginning. So it is with a heavy heart I say that their newest album Rather ... read more
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Sons of Azrael – The Conjuration of Vengeance
Posted Oct. 22, 2007, 3:02 a.m.
Trail of Flesh, Sweet Blasphemy, and Scent of a Dead Whore. Sure, we all know these titles as classic childrens books, but did you know ... read more
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Souvenir's Young America – An Ocean Without Water
Posted Feb. 11, 2008, 8:08 p.m.
From the reviewers initial notes made upon first hearing the album: Quiet + Loud + Quiet + Harmonica = Souvenirs Young America What a sad, ... read more
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Stalaggh – Projekt Misanthropia
Posted Sept. 3, 2007, 8:11 p.m.
When John Zorn released his Kristallnacht album, it contained one track of sheer horror, anger, and sorrow all rolled into one. Entitled Never Again, Zorn ... read more
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Starcrawler – Starcrawler
Posted Nov. 5, 2018, 8:12 p.m.
Starcrawler vocalist Arrow De Wilde is one of the most arresting vocalists I’ve had the pleasure of witnessing in the last 20 years. When watching ... read more
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Stone Temple Pilots – Stone Temple Pilots
Posted March 19, 2018, 6:12 p.m.
Jeff Gutt has a thankless task before him. Some might say impossible, even. He's replacing Scott Weiland, one of the most loved and recognizable frontmen ... read more
Blogs
Stone Temple Pilots Bring The Rock To Boulder
Posted June 4, 2018, 3:34 p.m.
At the time tickets went on sale for Stone Temple Pilots’ latest tour, it was unclear initially how many folks were going to be interested in seeing the band with their new vocalist Jeff Gutt. What quickly became apparent, as shows started selling about across the country including their stop ... read more
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Stone Temple Pilots with Chester Bennington – High Rise EP
Posted Oct. 15, 2013, 12:29 a.m.
For those who recall, the first time that Stone Temple Pilots got tired of waiting around for Scott Weiland to turn his shit around was ... read more
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Striborg – Nefaria
Posted March 14, 2007, 4:54 p.m.
When all else is said and done, I like my metal like I like my coffee: black, bottomless, and smelling like the inside of a ... read more
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Supersuckers – Get The Hell
Posted Aug. 24, 2015, 6:47 p.m.
There's very few bands that work as hard to bring the music to the masses as Supersuckers. They're like a sleeper cell. Without warning, they'll ... read more
News
TV: That Metal Show Season premiere debuts to record ratings
Posted June 10, 2013, 2:56 p.m.
SEASON 12 PREMIERE OF “THAT METAL SHOW” IS VH1 CLASSIC’S HIGHEST RATED TELECAST OF 2013 TO DATE The hard rock/heavy metal community has spoken! VH1 Classic’s centerpiece in original programming “That Metal Show” debuted the latest season to record numbers for 2013. The Season 12 premiere aired on Saturday ... read more
Reviews
Tangorodrim – Justus Ex Fide Vivit
Posted Dec. 26, 2007, 7:35 p.m.
So what are we to think of this pure, unholy black metal from Israel? Well for starters, taking into consideration their country of origin doesnt ... read more
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Taylor Hawkins – KOTA e.p.
Posted Dec. 19, 2016, 5:26 p.m.
CEO of SPB Inc: "No."Me: "why?"CEO of SPB Inc: "Because we don't include EP's on the top 25 year end list. You were aware of ... read more
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The Absence – Riders of the Plague
Posted Jan. 29, 2008, 8:08 p.m.
The Absence hails from Tampa, Florida. Anyone with a sense of history knows that in the late eighties this meant something. Death, Obituary, Deicide, and ... read more
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The Armed Forces – Modern Gospel for Modern Men and Women
Posted April 25, 2008, 3:24 a.m.
wannabe [won-uh-bee, waw-nuh ] noun. Informal. One who aspires, often vainly, to emulate another's success or attain eminence in some area. The Armed Forces are ... read more
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The Breeders – All Nerve
Posted April 30, 2018, 11:43 p.m.
When the Deal sisters re-assembled the lineup from their seminal Last Splash album for a 20th anniversary tour in 2014, they didn’t know how it ... read more
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The Breeders – Mountain Battles
Posted July 30, 2008, 11:25 p.m.
I have a huge crush on Kim Deal. There, I said it. Fuck you, dont judge me. You probably rubbed one out to Vanessa Hudgens ... read more
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The Delicious – The Delicious
Posted May 26, 2008, 5:40 p.m.
Recently signed to Joyful Noise Recordings, The Delicious is a Bloomington, Indiana quartet that just bug the shit out of me more with each subsequent ... read more
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The Dillinger Escape Plan – Dissociation
Posted Dec. 12, 2016, 7:06 p.m.
The progression of The Dillinger Escape Plan over the years has truly been a sight to behold. This is taking into consideration that their 1999 ... read more
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The Dresden Dolls – Yes, Virginia
Posted Aug. 1, 2006, 1:37 p.m.
Disclaimer: Any use of the term "gay" in the following review is, in this context a derogatory term to denote a substandard listening experience and ... read more
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The Fantômas Melvins Big Band – Live in London 2006 DVD
Posted Sept. 11, 2008, 1:03 a.m.
The Melvins and Fantômas. Two great tastes that taste great together. This is the first visual release of this clash of the titans. Sure, they ... read more
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The Gutter Twins – Saturnalia
Posted March 26, 2008, 8:30 p.m.
Theres cool and then theres cool. Mark Lanegan is cool. He was cool fronting the Screaming Trees back in the day. He was cool on ... read more
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The Hives – The Black and White Album
Posted Nov. 27, 2007, 3:33 p.m.
You either like The Hives or you dont. Yes, its that simple. The whole shtick, the outfits, the ego, be it embellished or not, the ... read more
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The Hussy – Pagan Hiss
Posted July 23, 2013, 12:29 a.m.
If Pain Teens and Jon Spencer Blues Explosion fucked and had a baby and that baby grew up to start a two-piece garage band with ... read more
Blogs
The Locust Swarm Colorado
Posted Nov. 4, 2019, 12:25 a.m.
There are few bands that are as hard to categorize as The Locust, so I won’t even try. About the closest approximation I can give, is it’s like taking Ritalin before an important calculus exam and getting beaten with a sock full of quarters on the way to class. But ... read more
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The Melvins – Basses Loaded
Posted Jan. 9, 2017, 5:41 p.m.
The Melvins are becoming one of the most prolific bands of any in recent memory. One could speculate on the reasons for this, but ultimately ... read more
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The Melvins – Nude With Boots
Posted Aug. 7, 2008, 2:23 a.m.
Rogers and Hammerstein, Salieri and Mozart, DeNiro and Scorcese. What makes a great partnership? Is it differences in opinion that compliment the end result as ... read more
Reviews
The Murder City Devils – The End
Posted July 9, 2005, 8:15 a.m.
Cost of ticket: $15.00 Cost of gas to drive to Seattle: $23.50 Doctor bill from cracked ribs received: $89.10 Seeing the Murder City Devils perform ... read more
Blogs
The Pixies Bring The Cool back to Denver
Posted Oct. 22, 2017, 12:06 p.m.
The Pixies @ the Fillmore Auditorium, Denver Colorado October 18, 2017 Black Francis is a man of few words. This would be detrimental as a stockbroker, but as the frontman for one of the most seminal bands of the 90s it comes in handy when you’re trying to squeeze ... read more
Reviews
The Residents – Animal Lover
Posted July 16, 2005, 9:08 a.m.
The Residents are an anomaly. This is an age where most music is the same regardless of how deep the scratch is. But whether their ... read more
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The Ruins of Beverast – Rain Upon the Impure
Posted Oct. 3, 2007, 10:45 p.m.
This is the only album Ive ever heard that sounds like it should have been wrapped in a shroud. Relentlessly bleak and resoundingly brilliant, this ... read more
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The Stooges – The Weirdness
Posted March 28, 2007, 2:28 p.m.
This metaphor has been used in other instances and with different figures at the head of the punchline. But believe me when I say that ... read more
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This Ending – Inside the Machine
Posted Feb. 14, 2007, 2:33 p.m.
This Ending's Inside the Machine is a creeper. The first time I heard it, I really didn't care for it. It was alright, but the ... read more
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Thom Yorke – Anima
Posted Nov. 11, 2019, 5:19 p.m.
There’s a kind of anxious immediacy that bleeds through every song on Anima, Thom Yorke’s latest solo album. Normally this would signal a lack of ... read more
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Thom Yorke – Suspiria (Music for the Luca Guadagnino film)
Posted Nov. 5, 2018, 8:30 p.m.
Taking a page from bandmate Jonny Greenwood’s songbook, Radiohead’s Thom Yorke has thrown himself into the breach of film scoring and it really takes only ... read more
Reviews
Tom Waits – Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers, and Bastards
Posted Dec. 10, 2006, 2:52 p.m.
I'm not going to lie to you. This review isn't going to be unbiased. It isn't going to be impartial. It isn't going to be ... read more
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Tomahawk – Anonymous
Posted July 10, 2007, 12:08 a.m.
When Hank III goes on tour, he leaves no stone unturned, playing anywhere that would have him: cities, towns, hamlets, burgs and more than a ... read more
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Tomahawk – Oddfellows
Posted Jan. 28, 2013, 10:49 p.m.
It's been over 5 years since the world has been graced with anything new from Tomahawk, the pseudo-supergroup featuring the triumvirate of Duane Denison, Mike Patton ... read more
Reviews
Tool – Fear Inoculum
Posted Nov. 18, 2019, 7:15 p.m.
hype - Informal.nounexaggerated publicity; hoopla.an ingenious or questionable claim, method, etc., used in advertising, promotion, or publicity to intensify the effect.Let’s be real. 13 years ... read more
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Tricky – Skilled Mechanics
Posted Dec. 26, 2016, 8:25 p.m.
When I think think of one word to describe Tricky, it isn't trip-hop, because that's two words, silly. No, the one that always comes to ... read more
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Triptykon – Melana Chasmata
Posted Feb. 3, 2015, 12:41 a.m.
In his long, storied, and in this mind, legendary career, Thomas Gabriel Fischer (Tom G. Warrior) has been a man of dark talent and darker ... read more
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Trouble – The Distortion Field
Posted March 18, 2014, 1:09 a.m.
There are few bands that can boast ever having made one of the heaviest albums of all time.Trouble can make that claim not just once, ... read more
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Twenty Inch Burial – How Long Will We Laugh and Smile?
Posted Aug. 20, 2005, 9:56 a.m.
Like all of you, when i think of Portugal, I think of three things: the architect Miguel von Hafe P'rez, tungsten mines, and metal. I ... read more
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U.S.S.A. – The Spoils
Posted Feb. 11, 2008, 12:45 a.m.
U.S.S.A. is a relatively new project consisting of Ministrys Paul Barker, Tomahawks Duane Denison and two other guys. Two out of four guys that have ... read more
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Urgehal – Goatcraft Torment
Posted Jan. 3, 2007, 2:08 p.m.
God bless Southern Lord Records. For many years the label has been the last bastion for all things sludgey and doomish. But as some of ... read more
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Van Halen – A Different Kind Of Truth
Posted Feb. 6, 2012, 10:30 p.m.
Let’s get right to it. I think we can all agree that lead-off single “Tattoo” is a shitty song. And any album that has the ... read more
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Various Artists – Desert Sessions, Vol. 11 And 12
Posted Nov. 18, 2019, 7:11 p.m.
It’s been 16 long years since Josh Homme sent out invitations to a group of musicians to join him out in the high desert for ... read more
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Various Artists – Sound City - Reel To Reel
Posted March 19, 2013, 12:59 a.m.
Sound City Studios was a recording studio located in the industrial heart of the Van Nuys district of Los Angeles and was the recent subject ... read more
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Venom – Metal Black
Posted May 17, 2006, 2:19 a.m.
Anton LaVey, Richard Ramirez, and Phil Knight. Three famous individuals who, despite being all about the evil and doing their part to ensure eternal damnation, ... read more
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Vio-lence – Eternal Nightmare
Posted July 6, 2005, 12:24 a.m.
Thrash: (verb) To move wildly or violently. In 1986, in the genre known as "Thrash Metal", there were what was known as the "Big 4", ... read more
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Voivod – Katorz
Posted Oct. 5, 2006, 1:32 p.m.
As tragic as it was, the death of founding member and guitarist Dennis "Piggy" D'Amour in 2005 was not the death of Voivod. The final ... read more
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White Lung – Paradise
Posted Dec. 5, 2016, 6:02 p.m.
Since the 1980s, Vancouver, B.C. has always had a thriving punk scene, but the new millennium came in like a reaper and scythe, decimating live ... read more
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William DuVall – One Alone
Posted Oct. 14, 2019, 7:44 p.m.
In the 13 years that William DuVall has fronted Alice In Chains, sharing vocal duties with Jerry Cantrell he has left an indelible mark on ... read more
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