Not to say that it ever stopped being good, but it seems to me like the past few years have seen a considerable surge in the quality of screamo. A lot of the bands grouped with the “second wave” of screamo either broke up and moved on to other projects, or slowed down considerably, so …
As We Fight/The Psyke Project – Ebola Though the Ebola split makes for an entertaining listen, it doesn’t offer much more than that, as there are simply far more interesting hardcore and metalcore bands doing what these bands do, and better. The approach with both bands seems to be stripping the style to its essentials, …
Elux Lucis – Thoughts on Thoughts of Thoughts Like a lot of recent bands (Pianos Become the Teeth come to mind), one can’t really call Elux Lucis screamo, but the influence is quite obvious and essentially what makes them interesting. I will admit that even listening to Thoughts on Thoughts of Thoughts was a bit …
While naming one’s band Obscura after an album like the Gorguts opus is released seems to be making too much of a statement, it can be excused – Obscura is by no means new to the metal scene, and its members even less so. Though he is notable for playing on Necrophagist‘s Epitaph, Christian Muenzner …
American’s Midwest has long been reputable as a region that birthed some of the world’s greatest emo and post-hardcore talent. The South and DC were significant in their own right, but neither broke the borders of the genre like the Midwestern bands did, and influenced bands in different genres altogether – hell, you can hear …
It is remarkable that artists don’t crumble between the unrelenting jaws of the information age. Society’s capacity for consumption is limitless, and the rate at which talent is expected to produce inspired work cannot possibly meet these standards. There is no omnipotent musical power or band-to-beat – the Pink Floyds and the Led Zeppelins have …
Whether you know him as the guy who Kurt Cobain learned all his tricks from, or simply don’t know him at all (the more likely of the two options), Greg Sage was one of the most significant and forward-thinking punk men of the 80s. Did I mention underrated? For the overall excellence of their entire …
Campaign – It Likes to Party Pseudo-Hot Water Music acts have been plentiful in the past few years, so naturally, a lot of bands have dabbled with different takes on the Florida natives’ emo-infused punk rock. Bands like Polar Bear Club and Daylight pushed on the melodic hardcore and pop-punk aspect, while bands like Castevet …
Ah, Harvey Milk, Harvey Milk. There is much to say about the Athens, Georgia sludge/drone greats. Despite releasing some of the genre’s most prestigious works, they remained a cult favorite for over ten years, up until the release of 2008’s Life…The Best Game In Town. To be fair, it was a great album – really, …
From time to time, one will attend a show simply for the sake of seeing the headlining act, and thus go in with no prior experience of what the opening acts sound like. In a situation like this, it is usually safe to say that one really enjoys the headlining act, since they attended the …
