Music Reviews
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Aug 13 Reviews
Saloon
The Ongoing ConceptReview by David Stagg
The Ongoing Concept is a four-piece rock and roll band you want to hear first, so you can be the ones to tell your friends about them. Saloon is...
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Aug 13 Reviews
Tracing Back Roots
We Came As RomansReview by David Stagg
How audiences and fans adopt bands and make them figureheads for a genre is bizarre. (It’s not the first, it’s never the last and it’s always a tricky game...
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Aug 13 Reviews
After the End
The Revolutionary Army of the Infant JesusReview by Jamie Lee Rake
When The Revolutionary Army of the Infant Jesus reared its head up from the Liverpool indieground in the late ‘80s with The Gift Of Tears, the critical lexicon to...
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Aug 13 Reviews
Cast the First Stone
The Great CommissionReview by Collette Wycoff
Let’s play a game. I write only the most important words about the new The Great Commission album, deal? Cool. New Album. Cast The First Stone. Eleven tracks. Vulnerable...
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Aug 13 Reviews
Wrongdoers
Norma JeanReview by Dan Macintosh
On Norma Jean’s new Wrongdoers album, the midpoint track, “Afterhour Animals,” incorporates what sounds like a woman hypnotizing someone else by speaking calming words, sinking them into a “comfortable...
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Aug 13 Reviews
Changes
Silence the OceanReview by Anthony Bryant
Silence the Ocean is a tide on the rise. With key elements and all the basic parts filled, the band is ready to explore and achieve new levels. Changes...
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Aug 13 Reviews
Five Points
LessonsReview by Sean Huncherick
Question: What does a metalcore band with members from Children 18:3, Planet Earth and Take Cover sound like? Answer: Like any other metalcore band. It’s always interesting to see...
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Aug 13 Reviews
Shaken
ShakenReview by Wes Jaques
First impression: SOLID. For the fans of the first Shaken release, I have good news and bad news. Shaken is a solid songwriting band, and the production for the...
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Aug 13 Reviews
The Fall, The Rise
Quiet! I'm Hunting!Review by Anthony Bryant
Quiet! I’m Hunting! has an EP called The Fall, The Rise. Both the band’s name and the album’s title are enough to capture your interest. That is, until you...
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Aug 13 Reviews
Scarecrow
Decyfer DownReview by Sarah Brehm
Scarecrow, the third studio album from Decyfer Down, is the culmination of four long years of writing and recording, and for the fans, waiting. But this album is well...
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Aug 13 Reviews
Pains.
IslanderReview by Chelc Eaves
Looking for some new tunes to rock out to this summer? Well put your hardcore dancing shoes on, because the search ends here, with Islander. This Greenville, S.C. band...
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Aug 13 Reviews
Hollow Bodies
BlessthefallReview by Anthony Bryant
Blessthefall’s fourth full-length studio record, Hollow Bodies, is another example of the group’s expert harmony of symphonicism and vicious instrumentals, and though the album isn’t an example of anything...
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Jul 3 Reviews
No Shelter
MessengersReview by Dan Garcia
Messengers brings gives us a good time with fast-paced “circle pit” rhythms, and heavy, headbanging guitars that would please even the most violet-bandana-wearing hardcore mosher. No Shelter is a...
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Jul 2 Reviews
Extol
ExtolReview by Rob Houston
Extol’s self-titled fifth album is a long overdue masterpiece. The Norwegian band is finally following up on their Norwegian Grammy nominated The Blueprint Dives – from 2005. Eight years...
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Jul 2 Reviews
Maximus
King JamesReview by Sean Huncherick
King James is now joining what I like to call the New Wave of Reunited Heavy Metal. With their first album in over 15 years, the band is back...
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Jul 2 Reviews
Super Collider
MegadethReview by Doug Van Pelt
Love ’em or hate ’em, Megadeth exists in a sphere that steamrolls with fast, heavy metal, creativity that is beyond the “does it suck or not?” level of quality....
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Jul 2 Reviews
In the Taking of Flesh
The BurialReview by David Stagg
The Burial had quite an off-season. After some major member shake-ups — including the addition of songwriter and guitarist Elisha Mullins — the band opted to keep the same...
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Jul 2 Reviews
The Glory
Animal GiantReview by David Stagg
Animal Giant is the moniker for John LaRussa’s (Inhale Exhale) one-man band. On this EP, he does it all, from engineering, tracking and producing to the instruments and songwriting....
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Jul 2 Reviews
Prisoner
AngeLightReview by Sean Huncherick
Crunchy guitars? Check. Occasional piano or strings? Check. Grungy vocals with an average of two screamed lyrics a song? Check. At least one member with dreadlocks and eyeliner? Check....
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Jul 2 Reviews
Collapsible Lung
Relient KReview by Dan Macintosh
Relient K’s Matt Thiessen is rock music’s perennial underdog, so one tends to pull for him, almost instinctively. However, his band’s latest effort, Collapsible Lung, makes it difficult to...
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