This was quite the year, but here we are! The end of it all, when we bloggers post our favorite releases of the year. Earlier, I posted my list from #50 to #11, which you can view here (I made the post public so everyone could see it), but…
Browsing the publication as preserved. Archival catalog
This was quite the year, but here we are! The end of it all, when we bloggers post our favorite releases of the year. Earlier, I posted my list from #50 to #11, which you can view here (I made the post public so everyone could see it), but…
It’s been a long year, and with a long year comes a lot of new music to dive into. I, personally, discovered an abundance of music both new and old this year which, considering all the shit that went down in the world these past 354 days,…
12/5/2017
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LMAO WHAT’S GOOD YOU FUCKING THURSDAY FANBOYS. THE REIGN OF FALSE POST-HARDCORE ENDS TODAY BECAUSE THE NEW GLASSJAW RECORD IS OUT AND IT'S ALMOST SURPASSED CHINESE DEMOCRACY IN THE SHEER AMOUNT OF TIME SPENT MAKING/TALKING ABOUT MAKING IT…
Glassjaw - Material ControlRating: 9/10 Fifteen years have passed since Glassjaw graced the music scene and our ears with their critically acclaimed second LP, Worship and Tribute. Though the Long Island-based post-hardcore unit has releas…
Vitriol - Pain Will Define Their DeathRating: 9/10Buy/listen on Bandcamp It wasn’t hard for Those Who Lie Beneath to claim the throne of the heaviest deathcore band. An Awakening, their one and only record, is about as frightening a recor…
SECT - No Cure for DeathRating: 7/10Stream on Bandcamp SECT are a pretty interesting supergroup. Consisting of former members of Cursed, Undying, Earth Crisis, and Fall Out Boy, one would expect their sound to be diverse and eclectic. If t…
Saarkoth - Demo 2017Rating: 8/10Buy/listen on Bandcamp The point of a demo isn’t to create much of an atmosphere or to plumb every nook and cranny of a band’s sound. Its job is simply to present what a band can do and imply more and better…
Axis - ShiftRating: 7.5/10Buy/listen on Bandcamp Metalcore is in transition. An exciting underground force in the 90s, its breakthrough in the ’00s permanently segregated the genre into two or three distinct groups: one, spearheaded by Ki…
Cryptodira - The Devil’s Despair Rating: B+ Stream/buy the record here. I first discovered Cryptodira in 2014. They were the local openers for my all-time favorite band, Between the Buried and Me, during the Long Island date of the Par…
Ne Obliviscaris - UrnRating: 8.5/10Buy/listen on Bandcamp In the years since they took the world of progressive metal by storm with Portal of I, and with each subsequent record, Ne Obliviscaris have been hard at work refining their craft.…