Music Reviews
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Feb 2 Reviews
No Love/No One
GideonReview by Philip Trapp
Feb. 1 saw the surprise release of No Love/No One, a ferocious two-song EP from work-tough nü-rockers Gideon. Loaded with the barbed-wire laced title track and backed with the...
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Jan 28 Reviews
I'll Always Be the Same
The Drowned GodReview by Nao Lewandowski
The Drowned God has made a statement of blistering severity on their sophomore record, I’ll Always Be the Same. The eight-song record rests somewhere between an EP and an...
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Jan 25 Reviews
Multisensory Aesthetic Experience
MaeReview by Tiffany Neufeld
Following a nearly ten year hiatus, Mae recently released their first full-length album in said time, Multisensory Aesthetic Experience. After such a long wait, expectations and hopes inevitably were...
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Dec 6 Reviews
The Sin and Doom, Vol. II
Impending DoomReview by Philip Trapp
The earnest introductory prayer on Impending Doom’s gritty 2007 debut Nailed.Dead.Risen is called “Left Behind,” the title cribbing that of author Tim LaHaye’s doomsday drama-turned-film. Yet the now-prolific Christian deathcore band’s...
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Dec 3 Reviews
Broken
Memphis May FireReview by Nao Lewandowski
When a band has mastered their craft like Memphis May Fire, it’s no surprise when they continue to release solid records. On their sixth studio album, Broken, the band...
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Nov 27 Reviews
When the End Began
Silent PlanetReview by Nao Lewandowski
When the End Began is nothing short of spectacular and fans would expect nothing less from the band that has forged such a unique path in the music industry.
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Nov 22 Reviews
Screaming Away: A Metal Love Story and Memoir
Charlie HanksReview by Danielle Martin
Twenty-seven hours isn’t long to do much of anything, but it’s just enough time to plow through Screaming Away, the surprisingly gripping rock autobiography by Charlie Hanks. As an...
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Aug 26 Reviews
Stranger Here
WeatheredReview by Nao Lewandowski
Facedown Records’ newest addition, Weathered, shows the scene that sometimes it’s the quiet giant that cuts through the noise with the strongest voice. Bringing with them a powerful rock...
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May 14 Reviews
Being Empty : Being Filled
ListenerReview by Danielle Martin
Spoken word has been slowly infiltrating sub-genres of the rock and hardcore scenes over the recent years. But, for Listener, what started as an underground hip-hop solo project in...
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May 6 Reviews
Ultraviolet
My EpicReview by Danielle Martin
“If you got quiet for a moment, finally put your faith where your mouth is, what are you afraid you’ll hear?” My Epic – “Of Wilderness” If there’s one...
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May 6 Reviews
Pyrrhic Victory
ZaoReview by Philip Trapp
“There’s another four or five songs,” Zao drummer Jeff Gretz told us in November 2016 days before the release of the band’s vivid comeback album, The Well-Intentioned Virus. “I...
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May 5 Reviews
I Am
Sleeping GiantReview by Danielle Martin
When listening to Sleeping Giant’s final album, I Am, you’re left with one thought. It’s a notion that vocalist Tommy Green said himself: “I thank God for hardcore.” It’s been...
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May 5 Reviews
Sheep Among Wolves
Project 86Review by Danielle Martin
Project 86 has been around longer than their second generation of fans has been alive. After 20 years and ten studio albums, the hard rock veterans continue to deliver...
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May 1 Reviews
Through Separation
Us UnderwaterReview by Danielle Martin
Some of the greatest bands you’ve never heard are active in the Portland indie scene. Whether their anonymity is the fault of an oversaturated local indie market or a...
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May 1 Reviews
One Thousand Risks
Chad JohnsonReview by Danielle Martin
In modern American society, we’ve been conditioned to believe we have control over everything; the ideas of “miracles” and “healing” are foreign concepts that – for most of us...
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Apr 27 Reviews
God Damn Evil
StryperReview by Nao Lewandowski
If there is one band in Christian metal that will not be shaken, it’s Stryper. Blazing the trail for the future of heavy Christian music, Stryper entered the scene...
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Mar 2 Reviews
Amor En Tierra Ajena (Love In A Foreign Land)
Carlos SalazarReview by Danielle Martin
There was a time when Carlos Salazar was the unclean vocalist of Before There Was Rosalyn, a millennial metalcore band from Houston. Their reign was by no means short,...
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Dec 18 Reviews
Songs of Experience
U2Review by Doug Van Pelt
If I recall my U2 gossip (and I don’t claim to be as fervent about my fandom as others), the band recorded two albums’ worth of material a few...
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Nov 27 Reviews
Equivalency
Hotel BooksReview by Danielle Martin
Of all the genres, spoken word has to be the most overtly vulnerable. It shares the genes of melancholy and emo and the dramatic atmosphere of ambient rock. But...
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Nov 26 Reviews
Your Memorial
Your MemorialReview by Philip Trapp
Your Memorial says farewell with this five-song, self-titled EP, and, while the final release from this Twin Cities metalcore act is a bittersweet concept to process, the music couldn’t...
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