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Articles by Mark Bushnoe

Favorite Bands: Atheist, Pink Floyd, King Crimson, Cynic, Cursed, Leftover Crack, Primus, Martyr, Talking Heads, Baroness, Burst, Suffocation, Aesop Rock Favorite Movies: Airplane!, Reservoir Dogs, Blazing Saddles, Night of the Living Dead, The Princess Bride, Clerks, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Jurassic Park, Apocalypse Now, The Usual Suspects Hobbies: Bagel Bites, Listening to music, Writing, Trying to play music, Bagel Bites, Capitalizing Everything in my Bio Favorite Quote: "I am a humanist, which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without expectations of rewards or punishments after I am dead." - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Mouth of the Architect – The Violence Beneath Mouth of the Architect – The Violence Beneath As the closing moments of Rosetta‘s A Determinism of Morality relayed off of the satellite and approached the ears of its anxiously awaiting astronaut fanbase, the signal narrowly avoided a head-on collision with the newly …
The Summer Slaughter Tour 2010 Shortly after returning from Saturday’s Summer Slaughter date at the Palladium, I was asked to review my experience.  I was glad to take the assignment, and I still am, but I soon thought about how …
The Binary Code – Priest The Binary Code – Priest When The Binary Code‘s self-released, debut record made its way to Hearwax Media last year to be reviewed, it was praised for its keen sense of selectiveness, and criticized  for its unwillingness to take risks.  …
Ion Dissonance – Cursed Ion Dissonance – Cursed In 2003, Ion Dissonance came out with their first album, entitled Breathing Is Irrelevant, and it caught a lot of people’s attention.  It was noisy and abrasive, it was technical, and it had intelligent lyrics …
Untied States – Instant Everything, Constant Nothing Untied States – Instant Everything, Constant Nothing Untied States‘ Instant Everything, Constant Nothing is a collection of ends that have been untied, reordered, and then tied together again, with a fragmented puzzle of grungy indie as the end result.  Complex structures and …
Coffin Birth – The Miracle of Death Coffin Birth – The Miracle of Death The organ accompanied by harsh spoken verse that Coffin Birth have chosen to introduce this album is on point enough to meet Edgar Allan Poe’s guidelines for short fiction, in which he claims that the …
Pathogenic I: Djentering the Sleeping Mind Pathogenic I:  Djentering the Sleeping Mind If you’ve ever asked me what I’m looking forward to in the future of metal, you’ve probably heard a lot of fanboyish rants about Kelly Shaefer and Steve Flynn working on new Atheist material, you’ve …
Weekly Worship #15 Weekly Worship #15 If you haven’t listened to Hacksaw to the Throat before, you might expect them to be a down tuned Myspace Deathcore band, who vehemently refer to themselves as Grindcore.  Fortunately, you’d be very far from …