This six song MCD really impressed the mosh out of me. Even with all the metalcore that I’ve gotten to review lately, AS HOPE DIES managed to distinctly stick out from the pack and sock a welt of an impression into my cranium, even without the band resorting to any truly original passages. Combining lightning [...]

In many respects, it seems like AVAIL is the perfect punk/hardcore band. Their catalog is deep with classic releases, their live show is nothing short of riverting, and their ‘southern boy’ mystique seems to carry along separate from all others. So it’s no surprise that on their sixth full-length, and second for FAT, that “Front [...]

This scorching piece of plastic is plastered with pummeling pronoucements of punk fuckin’ rock. Actually, the music leans a tad more towards the hardcore side of things, especially with the brillant, dead on, cover of MINOR THREAT’s “No Reason.” “Liebestod” is an eight song romp, culminating in just under 13 minutes of blazed aggression and [...]

While still riding the high of seeing BAD RELIGION only a few days earlier, having NOFX come through town seemed like a pretty darn good follow up. It had been years since I last saw NOFX (not including the Warped Tour), and as a bonus, the MAD CADDIES are always rocking live. Maybe because this [...]

It’s now been eight years since THE OFFSPRING stamped the signature “So-Cal” sound on millions upon millions of people worldwide, myself included. In that time, it would be very easy to make the generalization that although much has changed in the punk rock music world, much is still the same. And there sits the beauty [...]

This isn’t quite a new release since it’s been out for more than a few months, but AGE OF RUIN deserves any press it can get, so this review is aimed at those who are uninitiated with metal mayhem these guys bring with them. Spawned from the Northern Virginia / DC scene, the mighty AGE [...]

Although I had briefly heard some good things about this band – most specifically that the majors were snooping around – I was in no way prepared to enjoy this release as I found myself doing. Simply stated – I could listen to THE ALL-AMERICAN REJECTS all day long and never tire of their seamless [...]

In light of the success of intense, off-kilter rock bands like AT THE DRIVE IN, …AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF THE DEAD, THURSDAY, FRODUS (hmm…success kinda passed them by unfortunately) and even early JANE’S ADDICTION, this band feels like the next logical progression of music. “Mahkra” is a very involved album, [...]