Church of Misery House of The Unholy (2009) Awesome Japanese doom metal that’s about murders. Alright, a little more would be that these guys put to shame like 98% of all doom bands not named Electric Wizard. They deliver fuzzed out riffs that stay stuck in your head for days at a time, while the [...]
Big Business – Mind The Drift
Big Business Mind The Drift: Big Business are back and rocking as ever. It seems that they learned a bit while being in the Melvins. Previous Big Business albums had been good, but became repetitive as they went on. Here the tracks all vary enough to keep the listener engaged. The drumming and riffing are [...]
Agoraphobic Nosebleed – Agorapocalypse
Agoraphobic Nosebleed Agorapocalypse: The last thing that comes to mind when one things of Agoraphobic Nosebleed is females. Well you better start since Kat, from the band Salome, has joined this constantly changing project. Her vocals are fierce enough to hold up with any of the guys, but still it’s a nice change and really [...]
The Melvins and drums
I had the good fortune of catching The Melvins live last time they played Boston. During this set, they stuck to rock oriented material, and didn’t really show their more experimental side. Although I’ve been listening to their material for years, it didn’t dawn on me until that show how essential Dale Crover’s, and more [...]
TV on The Radio-Dear Science
TV on The Radio Dear Science A well balanced album. TV on The Radio take funk, rock, hip-hop, punk, and even a little shoe-gaze, and make it all their own. Lyrically solid, but the vocal delivery and their seemingly endless supply of cool instrument sounds and production make this disk as kick-ass as it is. [...]
The Dead Boys-Young Loud and Snotty
The Dead Boys Young Loud and Snotty: If you like you rock and roll loud anthemic, and filled with sex and drugs, than this is the album for you. Musically focused on catchy attitude laden riffs. Vocalist Stiv Bators snarls and yells his anthems of debauchery with an abandon that most singers can’t muster. I [...]
Wayne Kramer-The Hard Stuff+
Wayne Kramer The Hard Stuff+: A clever mix of fuzzed out punk and soul. The lyrics cover a wide range of topics, from Kramer’s personal life, to a mournful farewell to Charles Bukowski. The music is simple enough to be catchy, but intricate enough to hold your interest. As always Kramer’s guitar soloing is loud [...]
Horse The Band-Pizza
Horse The Band Pizza: The extremely talented and absolutely hilarious Horse The Band parody several genres of metal and hardcore while singing about pizza. After tearing through some well played spoofs with awesome lyrics and a great vocal delivery the ep closes with a cover of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle theme song. Probably the [...]
Arbouretum-Song of the Pearl
Arbouretum Song of the Pearl: I have to give it to these guys for having an original idea and sticking to it. Celtic folk lyrics and melodies lilt in and out of Sonic Youth style guitar freak outs. The crazy thing is it works. This is a really strong album that I think I will [...]
