Becoming the Archetype is part of a fresh breed of extreme metal popping up America that is truly pushing the proverbial envelope about what is fresh and edgy. Taking the best parts of metalcore, the extremity of death metal, and the melodies of electronic music, this new breed following in the footsteps of all too [...]
Hey, Facedown Records and Victory Records…why didn’t you pick up Haste the Day when you had the chance? They aren’t typical, they have aggression, and pop melodies enfused into their choruses, Haste the Day and their 2008 album Dreamer are basically an ideal example of metal being metal, but being that much more accessible to [...]
Best known as a stalwart metalcore band, Bleeding Through has shed their previous identity in favor of another trend–deathcore. However, unlike many of their peers, Bleeding Through actually knows the metal they play and execute it all while maintaining the thick, slightly under-produced, keyboard enhanced sound that made them so popular to begin with.
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Unearth has been a stand out for me in both the live and recorded environments. It takes a special band to really replicate their album into an amazing live act, and Unearth on every single one of their albums, has done just that. Recently, the metalcore juggernauts from Mass, have released their 2008 album The [...]
Well that didn’t take long. This is it folks, the end of deathcore and metalcore as you know it. The Acacia Strain and Emmure have met their match. From this day forth, deathcore will become extinct and its all due to the English subverts known as Bring Me the Horizon. While not as heavy or [...]
1. Norma Jean - The Anti Mother (2008)
I have heard many bad things about this album, in fact, after initially listening to a couple of songs, I wrote this album off as another melodic metalcore assraping. However, for this review, sitting down at my computer and thoroughly listening to the Anti Mother, I have [...]
Album: Overcome
Label: Prosthetic Records
Year: 2008
2008’s Overcome brought to you by the darlings of American melodic death metal, All That Remains, leaves me in a conundrum. On one hand, the brutality of previous albums is not as apparent, replaced now with a much more poppy, mainstream sound. However, unlike other equally guilty parties like Trivium and Five Finger Death Punch, [...]
Album: Falconer
Label: Metal Blade Records
Year: 2001
1. Black Sabbath - Dehumanizer (1992)
I am a huge fan of Dio era Black Sabbath, and while Dehumanizer isn’t the greatest of the three albums Dio did with Sabbath, it is indeed a great album that is painfully under appreciated. What I find most telling about this album is that it maintains an undeniably [...]
