Normally I would begin a review for this site with a history of the band, citing any significant events and my personal history with them if applicable. I can’t do that for "We: The Guillotine." Yes, there is a history there, and quite a tumultuous one at that, but the bottom line is, this is a completely different band than it was when the seeds were first planted back in 2005. This is ...
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Don’t dog Nickelback. I know you secretly have a couple of their albums stashed away just like I do. With that being said, “Inside I Feel” by Trip Device is like a bigger, badder, better Nickelback album that you don’t have to be ashamed to like. The vocals are clean and clever and the tracks are adorned with catchy melodies. If you were to fuse the smooth musings of Tool with the grinding vo ...
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In horror movies, there are always points in time when slow music starts to rise, and the audience senses that they are about to have the hell scared out of them from the ensuing actions—the actions that make your heart race faster than it would after drinking a couple of RedBulls. “Cyanide Dreams,” the new album from Exordium, does just that. From the moment the first track, “Empiria,” star ...
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It’s rare that you pop in a CD and after the first five seconds you’re already saying, “Wow.” It’s a one in a million occurrence to be “wowed” from the start to finish of an album. The gentlemen of Absent Me have done this, and then some with their debut release, “Hate to Wake You.” The Sacramento based quartet manages to incorporate the best aspects of the progressive metal and rock genres i ...
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I’ll be honest. I didn’t quite know what to expect when I popped in Taunted’s new CD “Zero.” Having never truly reviewed anything from the underground side of metal I half-dreaded hearing terrible production values, miserable screams, and ear-bleeding distortion that would make me cringe as I suffered from track to track. Fortunately, listener suffering was not in Taunted’s game plan when r ...
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There was an unfortunate side to being introduced to Premeditated. I expected this. No new band is ever perfect. What was it about this band? Shoddy song structure? A vocalist with a crybaby, sob-story scream? Predictability at every turn? No. None of these. What was unfortunate was that I only got a four song EP of theirs to listen to for this review. It was a tease. Not nearly enough to call sat ...
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