Progressive rock is the land of wankery, let’s be honest. Sometimes it’s more subtle than others, and sometimes its more creative than others, but the very essence progressive rock based music, is to create an atmosphere of absolute technical precision and tightness often causing other musical nerds to spew forth their undying devotion to one [...]
Calling these guys overplayed is a bit of an exaggeration at this point since they are still very underground, even in their home nation of Germany. Nonetheless, We Butter the Bread With Butter is bound and determined to become the next pop culture metal sensation, and all I can do is lower my head in [...]
This week, it is with great regret that I reduce our weekly (ha!) feature to a new low with grind/screamo/Christian band, Attack Attack! Not only is this yet another generic Christian quasi-grind/deathcore act, but they one up their musical shititude with heaping loads of electronica and *sigh* a vocorder. That’s right, that piece of shit [...]
Isn’t it sad when a band makes this unceremonious list without having even released a debut record? Comedic grindsters, Iwrestledabearonce are due to release their debut record in early June, yet the hype surrounding this band is astronomical. Appearing in a primo spot at the New England Metal and Hardcore Festival along with regular airplay [...]
I can’t believe I haven’t commented on these guys before now! Machine Head is probably the most over-played non-classic metal band of all time. And no, Machine Head is NOT classic, nor should they ever be classified as such. Machine Head now basks in their current level of popularity for the simple reason: that they [...]
Yeah yeah I know, they are “legends” of the grunge and 90’s metal scenes, and yes, they made Dirt which is a pretty good album, but come on people, let’s make some progress here. Alice in Chains had it’s run, but after the death of Layne Staley, the band should have died with him to [...]
Wow, it’s been October since I did one of these. I guess you could say I haven’t been on the ball eh? Sheesh. Anyway, back to the grind. This week’s (month’s?) overplayed band of the week is one that has been bugging me for quite some time, and that band is The Haunted. Consisting primarily [...]
It seems that American metal has taken on its latest trend–female fronted bands. While nothing new to metal in the last 10-15 years, especially in Europe, it seems only in the last few years that extreme metal has taken on the role of females, most notably Angela Gossow of Arch Enemy fame. However, for all [...]
I know we have covered this band in the last month or so quite thoroughly, but it’s better than featuring Metallica again, right? I appreciate the hits to the site but….yeah, this month has been trampled by fanboys quite enough. Anyway, back to our featured guests this week, the speedy power metal powerhouses known as [...]
Yeah I know, I skipped a week, so sue me (actually…I am currently poor as fuck, so please don’t!)
The first time I heard Chimaira was during Slayer’s God Hates Us All Tour back in 2001. Chimaira had just released Pass Out of Existence and were picked up by Slayer along with American Head Charge for [...]
