Gaia - Chaos EPRating: 6.5/10 Connecticut band Gaia share a couple of things in common with Construct Paradise, apart from a home state: both bands graft the mid-range, digitized guitar tones of djent onto the growled verses and sugary cho…
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Gaia - Chaos EPRating: 6.5/10 Connecticut band Gaia share a couple of things in common with Construct Paradise, apart from a home state: both bands graft the mid-range, digitized guitar tones of djent onto the growled verses and sugary cho…
Values - “Losses”Rating: 9.2/10 The first time I saw Values was at the (now closed, once great) Point Beach Clubhouse in Milford, Connecticut, opening for puke rock outfit My Ticket Home. It was both my first time at Point Beach and my fi…
Avenged Sevenfold - The Stage 3/10 iTunes Avenged Sevenfold is a heavy metal band hailing from California who has achieved quite some success through their very melodic sound. The group started off as a metalcore group with records such…
Traitors - Mental State 6.6/10 iTunes & Big Cartel Traitors is a downtempo deathcore band from Florida that have made quite the name for themselves over the past three years with albums such as The Hate Campaign and their most recent EP,…
Fit For a King - Deathgrip Rating: 8/10 iTunes/MerchNow Christian metalcore is becoming quite the popular thing with bands such as Silent Planet and The Devil Wears Prada gaining quite the following, but we can’t forget about the pioneers…
Oathbreaker - “Rheia”Rating: … Oathbreaker is a hardcore punk act from Belgium that formed in 2008. Before the release of this LP, they released a self-titled EP and two studio LPs, Maelstrom and Eros/Anteros, respectively. On Eros/Anteros…
’Sabella & Kaonashi - “Never Home” SplitRating: 8/10Stream and buy Kaonashi’s side on Bandcamp ’sabella is a hardcore act hailing from the Chemung County in New York whose style consists of down-tempo mixed in with elements of alternative…
Bad Omens - “Bad Omens” Rating: 8.8/10 *Reviewed Before Release on 8/19* Buy on iTunes or through their Merch Store Bad Omens is a band I had heard about through a series of tweets from both their label Sumerian Records and a friend of min…
In Depths & Tides - ShroudRating: 8.2/10Buy on BandcampIn Depths & Tides is a band I only know of for the discovery of Connecticut's very own Ben Duerr (Shadow of Intent), and the heavy brutality that any track regardless of band he’s on b…
Inter Arma - “Paradise Gallows”Rating: 8.5/10Buy on iTunes or through their Bandcamp Every so often, I will pick up and listen to an album for no reason other than the fact it’s cover art catches my eye. I’ve stumbled into plenty of excell…