It’s 2007. Bush is President. Blockbuster is entering its death throes. St. Anger is Metallica’s newest album. The world is in a precarious place and people are unsure of what will happen next, but there is at least one thing most people have [...]
In many ways, the trio is the most timeless formation that a band may take. Stripped down, raw, dynamic. If you throw ‘heavier than a supermassive black hole’ onto that list of adjectives, the odds are you would be referring to RIG TIME! These [...]
Collaborations are an intriguing idea, and one that we are beginning to see more of within the music industry. From something as simple as a guest vocalist being featured on a song to entirely new bands being brought to life, the prospect of two [...]
I have been told that ADHD runs in my family, so to say that the words ‘Russian,’ ‘punk,’ ‘folk,’ and ‘black metal’ all applied to one band grab my attention might be overlooking that caveat. It is my firm belief, though, that you don’t [...]
“Sophomore slump? What the hell is that? Screw your regression toward the mean!” These are the words that surely must have been spoken by Divinity Compromised, a relatively new five-piece melodic prog act out of the Chicago area, while they were writing [...]
On paper, blackened thrash sounds like the perfect combination of two extreme genres. Infusing black metal’s subject matter, evil tone and often ludicrous speeds with thrash’s signature d-beat patterns, sudden breaks, and extended guitar sections should [...]
While you may not suspect it, the term “world building” (which literally means to construct an imaginary universe that events may take place in) is perhaps best applied to the music of Tau Cross, an internationally formed metal/punk supergroup [...]
