Music Reviews
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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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Oct 15 Reviews
Nuclear Sunrise
Hand of FireReview by Danielle Martin
Individually within the metal world, they’ve laid claims in previous projects and careers. But together, the men of Hand of Fire are just starting out, signing to Rottweiler Records....
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Oct 8 Reviews
Awaken
FleshkillerReview by Philip Trapp
Fleshkiller may very well be the ultimate Facedown Records band. Leading the label’s 20-year dominion of Christian heavy metal and hardcore into the next era, the international metal supergroup...
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Oct 8 Reviews
Lo Tom
Lo TomReview by Philip Trapp
“Baby can’t do no wrong,” David Bazan sings on Lo Tom’s debut self-titled LP. “I think it’s pretty cool.” The former-and-back-again Pedro the Lion frontman is spinning his well-worn...
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Sep 11 Reviews
Your Soul Must Fly
Derek MinorReview by Justin Mabee
Derek Minor has been running his own label (Reflection Music Group) since he left Reach Records in 2014, and, while under his watch, he has brought up some great...
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Sep 11 Reviews
The Stories We Tell Ourselves
Nothing MoreReview by Danielle Martin
Nothing More has been around the block; their latest album, The Stories We Tell Ourselves, is actually their sixth release. Their most popular — a self-titled release from 2013...
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Sep 5 Reviews
Dead in the Shadow
To Speak of WolvesReview by Nao Lewandowski
What better way to celebrate ten years as a band than blowing away metalcore standards with another outstanding album? Dead in the Shadow, the long-awaited third album by To...
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