Tag: metal
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This review was originally published on Otaku. I’m running it here because it was recently released here in the States. VAMPS — known as VAMPS (JPN) here in the States for Trademark reasons — is a Japanese hard rock/metal group formed in 2008 by vocalist/rhythm guitarist HYDE of L’Arc~en~Ciel fame and lead guitarist Kazuhito “K.A.Z”…
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Las Vegas rock band Otherwise have released a free, acoustic EP called Enjoy The Pain, which can be downloaded at www.EnjoyThePainEP.com It features five brand new songs, which the band wrote and recorded while on the road. Here’s what the band has to say about it: “‘ENJOY THE PAIN’ is our gift to you. It’s our…
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Kill Devil Hill really caught me by surprise. Especially since they’re on Century Media Records. You see, I honestly thought this type of melodic metal was dead. At least aside from Frontiers Records, who’ve ignored all of my E-mails requesting to be added to their press list, which is really a shame because I love…
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I bought Skeletonwitch’s second album, Beyond The Permafrost, on a whim one day back in 2007 when I was browsing the metal section at Newbury Comics. I was intrigued by their logo, which looked like what a death metal band’s logo might look like if it was actually readable. Normally, most metal bands — and…
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Dead Letter Circus, who hail from Australia, are one of those bands who are impossible to categorize. In fact, when they first burst onto the scene in the land down under in 2007, people didn’t know what to make of them. Were they metal? Were they alt-rock? Prog rock? Nobody was certain and it was…
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Warbringer are considered re-thrash, otherwise known as retro thrash, a genre that’s been hated as much as it’s been loved. You see, some fans feel that re-thrash is too much like old school thrash from the ’80’s and/or that it basically plagiarizes those bands, like Slayer, Testament, Exodus and Metallica. Personally, I haven’t come across…
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We seem to get three types of readers here on Love is Pop. There’s the group of people who are mostly into pop music who come to read the pop stuff. Then there’s a group of people who read just about everything, perhaps because they like our style of writing reviews or my in-depth interviews.…
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Yes, you read the subject line correctly: one of our favorite rock vocalists has reunited with the group that made him famous! Tony’s Facebook post: “After much discussion and lots of soul searching I’m happy to officially announce that I’ll be back behind the microphone with TNT. I’m very proud of all we accomplished over…
