Music Reviews

Metal and heavy music album reviews for those that wish to rock

Music Reviews

Metal and heavy music album reviews for those that wish to rock

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Rhema Soul

Red

Diverse, trick and slammin’ hip-hop. As musical as Mat Kearney at times, but edgy and street level with the right amount of distortion in the beats at other extremes. Fans of Tobymac will...

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Flying Colors

Flying Colors

Prog rock purists can just suffer, because when a prog rock band can write a cohesive album of songs (rather than forcing an audience to accept their 10-plus-minute epic songs and incessant noodling)...

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Newworldson

Rebel Transmission

Listening to NewWorldSon is like traveling through music history in a time machine. That vibe comes through bold and beautifully during Rebel Transmission once a Motown beat kicks in during “Homeless Child” or as...

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War Of Ages

Return To Life

Heavyweights War of Ages have brought the heavy back in a big way with their fifth release, Return to Life. The ten-track album was recorded with and engineered by Zeuss, who, along with...

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Damien Deadson

A Warm and Dark Embrace

Sometimes part-time interests can turn into full-time jobs. So it is with Ryan Helm and Damien Deadson. This band began as a solo project, which allowed the (now former) Demon Hunter guitarist to...

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MXPX

Plans Within Plans

Twenty years, nine studio records, two cover records, one side band, one Christmas record, a few EPs. MxPx is one of the longest-running Christian punk bands that made it okay to love God...

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The Tug Fork River Band

Vultures

Being from the South, I’ve always been a fan of Southern rock and roll. With the amount of flavors of metal out there to listen to (thrash, death, grind, whatever), I’ve always...

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Grave Robber

You're All Gonna Die

Brace for the hit. This may cause bleeding. With an aptly-titled album, You’re All Gonna Die, the ghoulish-looking dudes in Grave Robber are back with hooks that kill. Guitarist turned producer, Tim Bushong...

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Thousand Foot Krutch

The End Is Where We Begin

TFK is known as everyone’s guilty pleasure. I had some moderate expectations for The End Is Where We Begin, but the first track is titled “The Introduction,” while the last track sports the...

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Jake Hamilton

Freedom Calling

Radical worship with a rough hard rock edge. And we're not just saying that like we think an electric guitar means it's rock.

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Aaron Gillespie

Anthem Song

Review by Anna Hartenbach

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Abandon Kansas

Ad Astra Per Aspera

Abandon Kansas, due to the name, reminds me of the movie, The Wizard of Oz. That being said, because of word association, Abandon Kansas should also bring to mind the band, Toto. Fortunately,...

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Abandon Kansas

Ad Astra Per Aspera

Abandon Kansas, due to the name, reminds me of the movie, The Wizard of Oz. That being said, because of word association, Abandon Kansas should also bring to mind the band, Toto. Fortunately,...

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Stryper

The Covering

Stryper sold a lot of music based on the strength of ballads like “Honestly,” perhaps so much so that it’s easy to forget how hard the band can rock. Oz Fox and...

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Emery

We Do What We Want

The plan unveiled for Emery fans is We Do What We Want will exist in two forms: its officially released form and another forthcoming acoustic version. One listen to the quartet’s latest...

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Sky Sailing

An Airplane Carried Me To Bed

By Doug Van Pelt

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The Listener

Wooden Heart

By: Rob Shameless

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The Devil Wears Prada

Zombie

By David Denison

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Various Artists

Punk Goes Classic Rock

By Doug Van Pelt How to think outside the 40-plus-years box you’ve grown yourself into.

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Destroy Nate Allen

Perfect Recipe for a Smile

By Matt Conner But let’s be honest. Critiquing this is like spending time downplaying the importance of Pee Wee Herman – an exercise in critical frivolity. It doesn’t matter either...

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The Rocket Summer

Of Men and Angels

By Rob Shameless It has been a long journey for all of us this past year and Bryce is the songbird singing our songs that is our spirits to find...

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Starfield

The Saving One

By Matt Conner "...the Neufeld brothers continue to craft worship anthems with electric guitars and crashing drums with the best of them only to find others receiving more acclaim and...

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Rhett Canipe

Rhett Canipe

With the mixture of guitar, piano, drums and strings, you might catch yourself taping your foot to his music.

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Switchfoot

Hello Hurricane

By Brad Moist I believe this album will be the album people remember.

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Paramore

Brand New Eyes

And as good as Brand New Eyes can be, just wait until Hayley Williams begins to venture beyond her insular personal realm, and starts to see the wider world...

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mewithoutYou

it’s all crazy! it’s all false! it’s all a dream! it’s alright

The music has mellowed and matured to a fresh, folk-friendly depth, not unlike a well-crafted batch of bourbon.

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Emery

... In Shallow Seas We Sail

I have to admit they warn you up front that their approach will remain "shallow."

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The Devil Wears Prada

With Roots Above and Branches Below

The seasoning should never be what the entrée was remembered for.

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xDeathstarx

The Triumph

Deathstar viciously crushed any skepticism that intense heavy-hitting songs pumped by messages of straight-edge unity and Christian values are dead.

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Corpus Christi

The Darker Shades of White

It’s a great record for a young band. Great technical skill with solid melodies.

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