• Iron Man 101: Who He Is and Why He’s Awesome

    The Summer of 2010 is a good time to be a fan of Marvel’s Armoured Avenger. The movie “Iron Man 2″ is currently tearing up the box-office, pleasing critics and viewers alike. On the printed page, Matt Fraction and Salvador Larroca’s Invincible Iron Man is consistently one of Marvel’s best monthly comics, and Iron Man stands front and centre in Marvel’s hottest new title, the relaunched fourth volume of The Avengers. Starkamania is running wild, but what is it about the man in the red and gold armour that so captures fans’ imaginations? In a comic book world of gods, monsters and mutants, radioactive spider bite victims and Hitler-punching patriots, what makes a guy in a souped up tin can stand out?

  • This Is Hell – Weight Of The World

    This Is Hell offer up a new biannual effort with Weight Of The World, thrashing with a blander canvas than Misfortunes’ and hardcore masterwork Sundowning. Never really cross-hatching with the chiaroscuro honed by Cursed and the like, This Is Hell have always excelled at playing a muscular and uncomplicated iteration of New England hardcore (with …

  • Narrows/Heiress – Split EP

    I love being able to listen to a record and have no expectations for it whatsoever and be pleasantly surprised. I’ll admit it; I wasn’t psyching myself up for this split. I like Narrows and I think their previous two releases were solid, but I wasn’t exactly blown away by either of those records. In …

  • Orgone – The Joyless Parson

    Upon first glance, The Joyless Parson is epic in every way; three of the seven tracks are over ten minutes long (one is over fourteen), the lyrics tell one continuous story throughout, and much like a death metal Chinese Democracy, fans have been waiting for Orgone‘s follow-up to The Goliath for three years – a …