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Metal Monday Volume 59 (2.27.12)

by Jesse on Feb 27, 2012 • 1 Comment

This week’s Metal Monday column takes you to San Diego, where metal band Medius is getting set to release their debut album!

Metal Monday Volume 58 (2.20.12)

by Jesse on Feb 20, 2012 • No Comments

Album Reviews / Metal Monday / music / New Releases

There’s this band you need to know about right now. They’re called Knives Out and they’re the best kept secret in metal today. Hopefully with the release of their full-length debut, Black Mass Hysteria, that status will soon change. Featuring members from an array of metal communities (Nothingface, Dog Fashion Disco, Polkadot Cadaver, HELLYEAH), Knives Out is a band that goes for the throat every second they blast a note out of your speakers. Nothingface was an underrated gem of […]

Metal Monday Volume 57 (2.13.12)

by Jesse on Feb 13, 2012 • No Comments

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I don’t know where all this dissension is coming from. I’ve perused a few blurbs on the latest Corrosion Of Conformity self-titled record and everyone keeps complaining about the absence of Pepper Keenan (Who is focusing on Down at the moment). Don’t get me wrong, I love Pepper and he’s the reason I got into C.O.C. but this is not Pepper’s C.O.C. at the moment and I am okay with that. What you have on Corrosion Of Conformity is a […]

The Singles Bar: Meshuggah’s “Break Those Bones Whose Sinews Gave It Motion”

by Jesse on Feb 13, 2012 • No Comments

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There is one thing known for certain about the recently “leaked” “Break Those Bones Whose Sinews Gave It Motion” off the upcoming monstrosity metal masterpiece that is Koloss (due on March 27th through Nuclear Blast): This is one hundred percent new music from Meshuggah. It’s a long, brutal, bone crunchingingly epic seven minute long declaration from the masters of technical/math/progressive metal. If you weren’t already excited at the prospect of a new Meshuggah record in a months time then this […]

Metal Monday Volume 56 (2.6.12)

by Jesse on Feb 6, 2012 • 1 Comment

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There are some people who believe I should be mad that Ministry decided to come out of retirement after I made the trek to Chicago for some of their final U.S. shows in 2008. In all honesty, when the final notes of “End Of Days” rang out on 2007’s The Last Sucker, I was heartbroken knowing I would never hear another note of new Ministry music. That said, the announcement late last year that Al Jourgensen had reactivated Ministry for […]

Metal Monday Volume 55 (1.30.12)

by Jesse on Jan 30, 2012 • No Comments

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The announcement of a new Pelican EP is always a good sign because it means a full-length is usually not too far behind. It’s been 3 years since Pelican unleashed the mighty What We All Come To Need and I, for one, have been dying to hear new music. “Lathe Biosas” is the first taste of Ataraxia/Taraxis due on April 10th through Southern Lord and it’s a smoldering pile of monster riffs that does not disappoint. Every Pelican song is […]

The Viewfinder: City of Fire’s “Bad Motivator”

by Jesse on Jan 28, 2012 • 1 Comment

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Definitely a band to watch in 2012, City of Fire are probably best known for having vocalist Burton C. Bell of Fear Factory and his bassist bandmate Byron Stroud (Also of Strapping Young Lad fame). Their debut, released in 2009, flew under the radar but showed off Bell’s range in a variety of genres. If you’re a fan of SYL, FF, Zimmer’s Hole, or Caustic Truth, then this link will be the best $9.99 you’ve spent in awhile. If you don’t have their debut […]

The Viewfinder: Knives Out’s “Blood Everywhere”

by Jesse on Jan 26, 2012 • No Comments

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If Nothingface and Dog Fashion Disco are no longer making new music then I am quite content for Knives Out which features former members of both bands and their upcoming debut album Black Mass Hysteria (Due on February 14th). Knives Out is the perfect amalgamation of the two bands. Tom Maxwell’s guitars are so recognizable from his days in Nothingface as is the pummeling that his former ‘face mate Tommy Sickles delivers behind the drum kit (Maxwell has since departed […]

Metal Monday Volume 54 (1.23.12)

by Jesse on Jan 23, 2012 • No Comments

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I am a casual Lacuna Coil fan. I’ve been into them since they broke with Comalies (Like everyone else for the most part…) and have quietly picked up every album since. I don’t listen to them on a regular basis and I’ve only seen them once mostly because they happened to be opening for Stone Sour. I also love the fact that frontwoman Cristina Scabbia and Slipknot/Stone Sour shredder Jim Root are still an item. But I digress. A lot…. […]

Metal Monday Volume 53 (1.16.12)

by Jesse on Jan 16, 2012 • 1 Comment

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It’s a blessing and a curse to release a record in January of a given year. On the plus side, you’re the first out of the gates in what is mostly a low-profile month but on the downside, if you have an album that’s kind of “meh”, you’ll likely be forgotten by February. Lamb of God choosing to release Resolution this month could not have been a smarter tactic. It’s a blistering behemoth of riffs and fury which is going […]

Metal Monday Volume 52 (1.9.12)

by Jesse on Jan 9, 2012 • No Comments

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First listen through “Living In The Shadow Of A Terrible Thing”, Therapy?’s latest single off their upcoming 13th studio album A Brief Crack Of Light (due February 6th), and I am pleasantly reminded of the band’s back-to-back classics Nurse and Troublegum. Simply put, the song kicks all kinds of ass. From the opening guitar and drum barrage through the singular Michael McKeegan led bass line, Therapy? pull no punches. Singer/guitarist Andy Cairns is still as amazing as ever and looking […]

The Viewfinder: Every Time I Die “Underwater Bimbos From Outer Space”

by Jesse on Jan 7, 2012 • 1 Comment

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I take back what i said about The Damned Things influence not leaking over into ETID. While Keith Buckley doesn’t scream all of the time, his “clean” vocals have never been as clean as they are in “Underwater Bimbos From Outer Space”. But that’s only a small bit of the maelstrom that is the opening song of Every Time I Die’s latest opus, Ex-Lives, due on March 6th. The rest is full on schizophrenic heavy. “Underwater Bimbos…” is not “We’rewolf” […]