It was a night of enthusiasm for new and old on May 1st at Worcester’s Palladium as 400+ crammed like sardines (fish frenzy) into a venue that probably comfortably fits less than 400. An early Sunday evening show with a delayed start time seemed to creep into a more appropriate time slot; the benefactors of …
Ana Kefr – The Burial Tree I’m not entirely sure what the exact opposite of a black metal purist is, but I’m pretty sure they would have Ana Kefr‘s newest release, The Burial Tree somewhere in their catalog, next to their Medieval Weapon Replicas, Emperor CDs and Drake and Josh DVDs or something equally awkwardly …
No one likes to be the bearer of bad news. When I decided to start reviewing albums, this was a position I knew I would be in more than I’d like. Nonetheless, I like doing this. It’s kind of difficult to review The Here and Now for this website, knowing that the majority of the …
Many people consider the early nineties the heyday for death metal. Though shows weren’t financially supported by big name sponsors, promoted vigorously using the internet, or headlined by bands that had a long history and a tendency to fill venues in every city they visited, the art of crafting devastating music (be it cerebrally or …
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 launched Mouth of the Architect-operated shuttle entitled The Violence Beneath. Unlike Rosetta’s mission to leave the atmosphere, look back on …
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 reviewing concerts is different than reviewing albums, and ways in which these can damper the impact of a concert review …
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. Priest serves both as a violent dismissal of the latter claim and as a cocktease to what people should expect …
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 that were delivered with a level of passion that has still not been met by a vocalist on a tech …
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 layers are fused with a wide variety of musical ideas with heroin-through-vein sensibilities and deadbeat progression choice common to grunge. …
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 opening paragraph movement should give the reader listener an idea of what they are to expect throughout the entire piece. …