A Dark Orbit – The Voyager EP

A Dark Orbit The Voyager EP : “Yawn, another dark wave band that should have stopped in the 90s.” I f that was your first thought when reading the name of the band and album, well I can’t blame you. But all is not what is it seems, rather this a metalcore band in the [...]

Forever is Forgotten – The Architecture is Burning

Forever Is Forgotten The Architecture is Burning: If one were to take Fantomas’ Suspended Animation album and shove the tracks together so they create 10 longish tracks, this the album you would get. The music jerks around constantly, unable to focus on one idea. The problem is that makes this album sound like it’s full [...]

Paira – The Barnacle Cordious

Paria The Barnacle Cordious: There has been a movement lately in heavy music to throw everything at the wall and see what sticks. The logic being that if you cram your songs full of odd and different parts then they will be good. Truth is this writing style doesn’t work all that well. It makes [...]

The Blinding Light – Junebug

The Blinding Light – Junebug It’s been awhile since The Blinding Light have released something. Yet age has not rusted this thrashing machine. Rather this is some of best material the band has put out ever. The musicianship has increased dramatically since The Glass Bullet EP. Brian Lovro still sounds like Scott Kelly of Neurosis. [...]

Dorcia – Tourist

Dorcia Tourist: These dudes have one pimped out Myspace. It’s too bad that is the best thing I can say about them. Don’t get me wrong, these guys aren’t horrible. They are just generic. This is metalcore in the the vain of Evergreen Terrace, though slightly learning towards the metal more so than the core. [...]

Scryer – Necessary Evils EP

Scryer Necessary Evils EP: This is an interesting listen. There is gamut of styles on this album, some work and some not so much. The vocals are usually shouted reminding me at times of Refused. The lyrics are at times cringe-inducingly bad, but these moments tend to be followed up by an awesome musical passage [...]

The Number Twelve Looks Like You – Worse Than Alone

The Number Twelve Looks Like You Worse Than Alone: After listening to this, I’m disappointed. The first half of this album just falls flat. Bad vocals, lame music. Then it picks up and gets to show off why people like this band. So really an uneven affair that should have been cut short and called [...]

Old Man Gloom-Christmas

Old Man Gloom Christmas: Old Man Gloom continue their trend of making droney metal-core, except this time around they add droney accordion-core to the mix. Rating: 12/15 down tuned sludge epics

Burst – Conquest: Writhe

Burst Conquest: Writhe: These guys try, ya gotta give em that. Yet sadly that’s not enough to make this album really good. They try to be progressive, hell they even have Merzbow show up. But still it’s kinda boring and just very meh. Also may I suggest the vocalist try screaming a different way? It [...]

Buried Inside – The Spoils of Failure

Challenging Prog Metalcore