I’d like to think of myself, at least a little, as an artist. I don’t play an instrument. I don’t sing (other than in the shower or in the car) or paint. I write. The ability to assemble words in a way that elicits a reaction from the reader can be a very powerful thing. A person that can combine...

Like metalcore and nü metal (gasp!) before it, retro hard rock seems to be a trend as of late. As in any sudden infestation of a niche genre, you’ve got your contrived, popular acts who have taken the sound to its marketable conclusion; Wolfmother and, increasingly, The Sword, fall into this bracket....

After eight years of studio silence, Indiana native black/death/thrash metal band, Invasion, is back with a furious vengeance. Orchestrated Kill Maneuver, the third assault-album by the gruesome group released on June 6, 2010 on their new record label, Rotting Corpse Records. Uncompromising and relentlessly...

Photo credit: Odessy Barbu Danielle Bisutti is well known in the tween scene as “Amanda Cantwell” on Nickelodeon’s True Jackson VP, but she’s also a songstress who delivers passion time after time. A native of Los Angeles and a daughter of Hollywood, Danielle’s no stranger to cameras...

Trigger The Bloodshed marches like a kind little girl carrying flowers.  Their new album Degenerate features savage, brutal, heroic death metal. Jonny Burgan is a ferocious, relentless growler with marvelous range and this gift is clearly on a mission from god.  Martyn Evans and Rob Purnell play...

With pop-punk bands crawling out of the woodwork it’s becoming increasingly difficult to find one that leaves any sort of impression; something that’s all about to change.  On July 20th, Syracuse, New York’s Honor Bright will be releasing Action! Drama! Suspense! on Triple Crown Records (also...

The Surface We Divide is the latest Dive Index album lead by co-writer and producer, Will Thomas, and features vocal contributions by a solid group of musicians including Cat Martino, Mark Gardener, Patrick Cooper, and Joseph Arthur. Although not the typical way to go about creating an album, this can...

Music lurked beneath that was more mature, wiser and still vicious.  This music is from Korn‘s hard, focused, and shockingly excellent new album Korn III: Remember Who You Are.  Ray Luzier’s definitive drums pulse, push, and solidify.  Jonathan Davis growls, sings, and emotes with the...

A pretext to a tasty read…The pre-released download of the album was labeled in descending order.  Hence, the first track became the last track and so on and so forth.  Technical difficulties, yet took nothing from the album but a rickety organization…it’s still solid. If such a thing can exist...

What begins as a monolithic tenement of beauty on All The Waters Of The Earth Turn To Blood is slowly at first, and then hastily torn to absolute rubble. There seems to be a ghostly white enchantment, terrible screams, and a strict dirty black monotone of simplicity. The album as a popular singular term,...