Category: Reviews
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Angelus Apatrida is a thrash metal band hailing from Albacete, Spain. It was formed in 2000 as more of a straightforward heavy metal band leaning in the power metal direction, but they gradually shifted gears and ventured into thrash territory. And boy are they good at it! It’s no secret that thrash is making a…
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To my ears, Yellowcard’s “Crash The Gates” sounds more like a recent Fall Out Boy song than a Yellowcard song. But, hey, I happen to love Fall Out Boy’s two newest albums. Suffice to say I can totally dig the energy here and the crunchy guitars are delicious. I’m not sure what the point to…
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Much has already been said about Björk’s new album, Vulnicura. For example, the first half of the title seems to be from the Latin word “vulnific,” meaning to cause injury. The second half seems to be from the Middle English word “cura,” meaning to care or cure. And, no, I’m not extremely smart like that.…
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Rad! It’s like a song from “My December” but catchier! It’s the song that should have followed “Never Again.”
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It’s been a few years since Emmy The Great — born Emma-Lee Moss — released her last album, Virtue in 2011, but you can hardly blame her when she’s so busy doing things like mentoring for the Joe Strummer Foundation for New Music (Strummerville), writing for The Guardian and Noisey, and re-enacting the Buffy The…
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“We are broken, but we’re fucking beautiful,” sings Neon Hitch on her hot new single “Freedom.” It sounds like something Katy Perry would sing — she dropped the F bomb multiple times during “Circle The Drain” on Teenage Dream — but we’re just fine with Neon Hitch singing it because, well, it’s brilliant.
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interview by Michael McCarthy It was only around twenty seconds into Night Demon’s debut full-length, Curse of the Damned, when I fell in love with it and knew it was going to be one of the very best metal albums I’d heard in a long time. The guitars were in the vein of Metallica’s “Whiplash”…
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“What do you know, I’m just a bad believer,” sings St. Vincent during “Bad Believer,” her brand new song for the deluxe edition of her self-titled album. It’s a song that finds her singing about going to church and fainting as the pastor touches her hand.
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I am very excited to tell you about French singer/songwriter Petite Meller’s fabulous new single (and video), “Baby Love.” Although she’s yet to release a full-length album, to me it feels like Meller has already released a few because each single she releases is like a special event.
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Marilyn Manson, the self-proclaimed God of Fuck, has returned with his ninth studio album, The Pale Emperor, and it’s a very good thing. A very good thing indeed. Or it’s a bad thing, depending on who you ask. I’m sure extreme right wing zealots are interpreting its release as a sign of the apocalypse, but…
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review and interview by Michael McCarthy previously published on OtakuDX Before we get to our interview with J-Pop’s future stars 4TE, I wanted to present a review of their wonderful double A-side MORE / 一歩ずつ… 4TE — pronounced Forte/for-tay — is a red hot new Japanese pop group based out of the U.S. and if…
