Danielle McCallister

Danielle McCallister is a native Oregonian whose passion lies in writing and music. When not pursuing one of the two, she is soaking up life with her husband, family, compadres, and dog Lloyd. She blogs about her thoughts on music in The Melodious Review, and life in general in The Quarter Life Epiphanies.

Danielle McCallister

Danielle McCallister is a native Oregonian whose passion lies in writing and music. When not pursuing one of the two, she is soaking up life with her husband, family, compadres, and dog Lloyd. She blogs about her thoughts on music in The Melodious Review, and life in general in The Quarter Life Epiphanies.

HM Book Reviews

Charlie Hanks

Screaming Away: A Metal Love Story and Memoir

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...

When the End Began

Featuring Silent Planet

"It’s every scenario I’ve ever imagined where my gut reaction was, 'This is the end of everything.' We need to have imagination to find hope in the middle of apocalypse."

Fell on Black Days

Featuring Fit For A King

"Even on your darkest days, try to find the bright spot because there is one." Fit for a King vocalist Ryan Kirby opens up about the songwriting on the band's latest release, 'Dark Skies'

Red Jumpsuit Rejuvenation

Featuring Red Jumpsuit Apparatus

After some time out of the limelight, Red Jumpsuit Apparatus has recently spent over a month at No. 1 with their newest single, 'On Becoming Willing.' We talk with vocalist Ronnie Winter to find out what's behind the band's reemergence as a leading band.

Seeing Clearly

Featuring Levi the Poet

After sordid experiences with a megachurch's abuse of power, Levi the Poet has emerged with 'Cataracts,' an honest, clear look in the mirror

HM Album Reviews

Listener

Being Empty : Being Filled

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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My Epic

Ultraviolet

“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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Sleeping Giant

I Am

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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Project 86

Sheep Among Wolves

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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Us Underwater

Through Separation

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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Chad Johnson

One Thousand Risks

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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Carlos Salazar

Amor En Tierra Ajena (Love In A Foreign Land)

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,...

The Storytellers

Featuring CVLTVRE

For CVLTVRE writing duo Joe Yarbrough and Ozzie Lizarraga, self-infliction was oppressive. When they found God and moved into a new phase of their lives, they sought out to help others through their music, starting with step one: let go.

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Hotel Books

Equivalency

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...

The Ongoing Concept

Featuring The Ongoing Concept

"I'm 25, and I enjoy talk radio more than I enjoy listening to music on the radio; that's where I am right now in my life." The Ongoing Concept evolves but stays eclectic on their latest, 'Places'

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Hand of Fire

Nuclear Sunrise

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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Nothing More

The Stories We Tell Ourselves

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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Glassworld

Wrecked

Hardcore quartet Glassworld recently released their debut full-length album, Wrecked, and, for many reasons, it’s a unique and solid listen. The work is laced with strict consistency and steers...

Exorcising Demons

Featuring Vagabonds

"I didn't write that song about wanting to kill myself, but more so I was just feeling like no one. I wrote that in a moment of getting lost in my head and being like, this is what it might look like; would anyone care? Would it even be worth an obituary if I die?"

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Stephen Christian

Wildfires

It’s been three years now since contemporary Christian phenom Anberlin called it quits. Since then, former frontman Stephen Christian has continued his own musical endeavors to critical acclaim; although...

Blues Brothers

Featuring Greta Van Fleet

Ripped right from the sound of rock's greatest albums, Greta Van Fleet -- three brothers and a friend -- finds their inspiration in the true roots of rock and blues

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Vagabonds

I Don't Know What to Do Now

Blood and Ink Records has a new member on their roster, Vagabonds, a single-member group from Grand Rapids, Michigan. Their debut full-length album release, I Don’t Know What to...

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Papa Roach

Crooked Teeth

It’s been 12 years since Papa Roach’s single “Scars” hit the airwaves, and 17 since they crashed onto the scene with the nu-metal all-timer, “Last Resort.” Somewhere between ’93...

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Conveyer

No Future

The author G.K. Chesterton once said, “There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.” Never is this more true than with music, an art that can be felt...

The Wolves and the Sheep

Featuring Least of These

We're saying, "This is how we feel, too. We are with you in these feelings, and this injustice is not OK."

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Matty Mullins

Unstoppable

Matty Mullins (pictured fronting Memphis May Fire) photographed by Brooke Long Photography for HM Magazine Fiery, redheaded, tattooed, and renown frontman for Dallas based metalcore band Memphis May Fire...

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Aaron Sprinkle

Real Life

Aaron Sprinkle has been an inherent part of the alt-Christian music scene, having contributed to it as much as a producer as an artist. He has fronted three successful bands (one...

Uncovering Forgiveness

Featuring Nahko and Medicine for the People

Nahko never met his father and never had the chance: When he was barely double digits in age, his father was murdered. To uncover some of the mysteries in his life, he traveled to San Quentin to meet -- and extend an olive branch -- to the man who took his father away from him

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Final Surrender

Nothing but Void

It’s been nearly four years since progressive metalcore trio Final Surrender released their debut album, Empty Graves. Again releasing through Rottweiler Records, they’ve marked their return with an EP...

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Becoming Saints

Oh, the Suffering

Hard riffs, harsh vocals, carefully placed melody, and contentious (but inspiring) lyrics are factors expected from the metalcore formula. They are all accounted for on Becoming Saints’ freshman LP,...

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