6.9.00 With a June 20th release date that seems to have next to no significance (since everyone on the planet has their own version of the CD already), you can bet that Deftones will go on record as the Summer of 2000’s most anticipated, and heavily-rotated new release. And with good reason Just as everyone …
Turn of the Screw Demo 1. Stale 2. Commit me By the sound of Turn of the Screw, it sounds like this band has been together for a long time. Their songs have so much structure I was taken back when I first listened to the CD. It’s almost if the songs have a story …
6.1.00 Release Date: July 11th When this CD arrived about a month ago, the anticipation was already overwhelming. The reputation of the band that created this monster was one of energy and innovation, and there was an incredible industry romance surrounding the name, Goudie. After carefully placing the CD in the drive and hearing the …
From the depths of San Luis Obispo comes a band in the metalcore genre. I’ve been trying for a while to figure out who the band sounds like and I can’t seem to come up with anything other than themselves. How often can you say that about a band? It’s quite rare these days. Snubnose …
I first heard a song entitled ‘Dystopia‘ by Apartment 26 several months ago while reviewing the ‘Heavy Metal FAKK II’ soundtrack. Prior to ‘Hallucinating‘, their debut CD on Hollywood Records, the band put out an indie release called ‘Within‘ on which the song ‘Dystopia’ originally appeared. Impressed by the industrial influences and the band’s programming/sampling …
The latest work from Pitchshifter will come as no surprise to their hardcore fan base. ‘Deviant‘ (MCA Records) is exactly what anyone – newly exposed or old school follower – would expect coming from a band with this much appeal and talent. Jon Clayden and the line-up for the millennium and beyond have created a …
Out of the blue, this mini-masterpiece graced my doorstep. How lucky am I to be one of the privileged few that are able to discover new music by merely having passion for it? I suppose this was one of the gifts for my efforts. What I am referring to is the two-song demo CD I …
From the first track off True to Form’s “Special Edition” CD, you know you’re in for a good ass whoop’n. True to Form is sticking with the local heritage and using their Bay Area roots to create a their own style of thrash. With the first track, “Push Away“, True to Form provides your ears …
Matt Ender plays acoustic piano and all electronic parts and programming on this album. For whatever instruments are left, various studio musicians, I’m guessing, join him for some songs. You know, this person played harp or cello on this song, or that person played penny whistle or bodhran on that song. The knowledge that this …
If one thing can be said for Ultraspank, it is that they have firmly established their sound. These days, a unique fingerprint from a new metal or hardcore band is rare. Somehow, Ultraspank mastered the art of being themselves, and unlike no one else from the beginning stages, and they continue to do so with …