Posted by Alec McKay on May 20, 2011 · 1 Comment
Follow @hearwax Parting the Sea Between Brightness and Me, the mouthful, is as much an overstatement as Touché Amoré‘s self-assured school of hardcore knocks. Though overwhelmingly been-there, you’d be hard pressed to find a band that plays done-that with this much bravado. Meeting at the same ends as last year’s confused Lucky Me (from the [...]
Posted by Alec McKay on May 15, 2011 · 2 Comments
Follow @hearwax Deafheaven have mounted an ambitious black metal LP and one that is a heartwarming release from the brutally earnest Deathwish Records. Ambitious in the way that Roads to Judah maintains a more purist Nordic BM concoction while skillfully sidelining the four tracks with contemporary Stateside experimentation; don’t get me wrong, I’m not missing [...]
Posted by Alec McKay on January 2, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Follow @hearwax If Anthony of The Carrier was waiting for his destiny to manifest in “One Year Later”, only to see its plans for him ruined in “Epilogue: Forgiveness”, then is Blind To What Is Right‘s overarching mythology the fallout? Is it all that’s left? To be sure, this sophomore full-length is as desolate as [...]
Posted by Alec McKay on November 13, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Follow @hearwax It’s best to approach Lucky Me as an experiment rather than experimental. The compelling aspect of the disc, as well as being its most glaring detractor, is that it finds the band seeking their most essential and immediate expression; it’s hardly finished, but should it be? This question is all the more pertinent [...]
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Posted by Nick Gergesha on July 5, 2010 · 16 Comments
Follow @hearwax Starkweather are of a diametrical nature. The band has stood on its own for over twenty years, a flagship of the methods in which disparate genres of music can be incorporated creatively into a cohesive and enjoyable structure. While other bands have cheekily stolen templates from other artists to create “metal-core,” “death-core,” and [...]
Category Interviews, Music · Tags croatoan, crossbearer, Deathwish, Hardcore, Interview, Jacob Bannon, Metal, Rennie Resmini, Starkweather, This Sheltering Night, Todd Forkin, tre mccarthy
Posted by Logan Broger on May 6, 2010 · 2 Comments
Follow @hearwax Ben Koller is a drumming chameleon. As Converge‘s skin-bashing mainstay, he is an integral part of their breakneck hardcore sound. As one piece of the mysterious United Nations, he provides an unhinged backbone to their mix of screamo and punk. And as the drummer for his newest outfit Acid Tiger, he has shifted [...]
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Posted by Nick Gergesha on May 4, 2010 · 22 Comments
Follow @hearwax On June 25th, 1959, Charles Starkweather was executed in Lincoln, Nebraska. At the age of 20, the young Starkweather had already murdered eleven people on a two-month spree with his girlfriend as they traveled across the United States of America. Without glamourizing the events surrounding the killing spree, it is safe to conclude [...]
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Posted by Ian Reale on May 3, 2010 · 11 Comments
Follow @hearwax These days, when one hears the term metalcore thoughts of swooped haircuts, tight jeans and obnoxious breakdowns come to mind. Before all that, there was Integrity. And most likely after all of that, there will still be Integrity. Though the only original member is vocalist Dwid Hellion, Integrity has been around since 1988. [...]
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Posted by Vuk Varicak on April 8, 2010 · 1 Comment
Follow @hearwax How does one define music? This is, indeed, a very broad question, but, nonetheless, of great significance to the subject matter. Webster probably said it best as, “An art of sound in time that expresses ideas and emotions in significant forms through the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, and dynamics”. The definition stresses [...]
Posted by Logan Broger on December 4, 2009 · 10 Comments
Follow @hearwax Last year was a big year for hardcore. With majorly awesome releases from Ceremony, Trash Talk, Cursed, Vatican Chainsaw Massacre, Black Ships, among a bunch of other bands that are kind of hardcore, but kind of not (Trap Them, The Endless Blockade, Misery Signals), it was difficult to pin down who took the [...]