On 2005′s Found In The Flood, THE BLED’s heavy parts got heavier and the softer parts got softer (as we put it). The result was an enjoyable album but one that found the band restraining itself from unleashing its mammoth force. With Silent Treatment, they’ve flat out wrote a mammoth record. While there are some [...]

New Jersey’s CHARGE are picking up and running with the kind of political, inspiring form of hardcore spirit that the countless costume-wearing bands of today have shoved aside. Tired of listening about broken hearts? Sick of inane references to mascara and cut wrists? If you’re looking for a sense of empowerment, positivity, and passion, all [...]

You have to love all the little touches in the video, especially the Mike Sneeringer Ultimate Power Living Seminar, and the subtitle “Tools For Becoming a Handsome, Successful Human”…

In “Pride and Joy,” MOROS EROS frontman Zach Tipton asks himself, “Where is my faith?” It’s a question that the singer puts immense thought into, considering the mere fact that every song on his band’s latest effort, the nine-track Jealous Me Was Killed By Curiosity, deals with his borderline-agnostic atheism. While Tipton has never been [...]

“So do you want to email Adam from JAWBREAKER?” went the email that landed in my inbox. Believe it or not, I had to think this over. I was pretty much oblivious to the fact that JAWBREAKER even existed until well after they ceased to be a band. Thus, my only knowledge of the band, [...]

Life In Surveillance is yet another addition into SO THEY SAY’s bland catalogue of releases. Following an EP and the full-length Antidote For Irony, this eleven-track disc finds the Missouri-based quintet further practicing their signature brand of identity theft. While in the past the band ventured into the territory of any number of contemporary melodic [...]

Dissonance ebbs and becomes jarring, poignant — the twin guitars tear the air, filling it with vocals, smooth and pleading, “Let’s stop this clock from starting/Wrong, the time’s spelled wrong.” The guitarists nod, their worn guitar necks held outward, moving in unison as the enveloping noise becomes a caress — the warm tones are inviting. [...]

Generally, I wouldn’t view Facedown Records as a label that plays catch-up in trending its roster, but the label’s signing of REMOVE THE VEIL smells far too much like a move to acquire a Christian southern metal band for the token sake of having one. “Let’s go out and sign the next MAYLENE AND THE [...]