Nothingness and empty can swell in a way that we soundtrack our own existence. As “Fulton Street I” builds on La Dispute’s Panorama, Jordan Dreyer’s screaming voice sounds like his soul is exiting his body with fear. The Michigan-based post-hardcore band’s most subdued record yet is also their most intense. Continue reading
I recently started compiling this playlist called “Music That Can Play Really Loud But Still Feel Like Background Noise.” None of these songs are really bad, and the title is something of a joke. Currently the playlist features the likes of Deafheaven, Radiohead, and Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross, and none of these artists make boring music. That being said, if I’m going for a long drive where I’m going to talk to someone, but I still want music to play; I’d be more inclined to put on this playlist than my collection of metal or songs with literary references. Astronoid takes the shoegaze and atmospheric elements of those bands that I like and pumps them up with a power metal like brightness that really makes their self-titled third album kind of a drag. Continue reading
If there’s one thing Bring Me The Horizon is owed, it’s respect. While plenty of new albums suffer from a symptom of sameness, BMTH bring us amo, an album that couldn’t feel further from their deathcore roots. Still, this wasn’t a drastic shift (the opposite end of the same complaint), the band has been inching towards this change since their deathcore opus Suicide Season. Following 2015’s That’s The Spirit, the band’s crossover into the mainstream shouldn’t come as any surprise; seeing as that was a nu-metal/hard rock record, BMTH coming out with a hard rock/pop album seemed to be the next step. Now that the band wants to swing for the big leagues, the UK band find shaky ground to establish themselves on. Continue reading
I’ve never known a time when Guns N’ Roses weren’t one of the biggest, most important rock bands of all time. I was born in 1994, right before the band dissolved into the Axl and company show that they were for most of my life. The first time I ever heard GN’R was about 12 years ago, at my cousin’s baptism. An older cousin lip-synced and air-guitared to “Welcome to the Jungle,” a song that I’ve always had a shifting perspective on. Living in a post-Guns-Reunion world makes the 30th anniversary of Appetite for Destruction that much more bizarre. Continue reading
It is Sabbath-esque, but get this, it’s classical choral music. Sure, there’s some electric guitar, and it’s ominous sounding, but we can see what Iommi’s working with in retirement.
The metal-legends have shared a Black-Metalesque video for the song “ManUnkind” from Hardwired…To Self-Destruct, which is out this Friday.
Metallica’s follow up to 2008’s Death Magnetic (or 2011’s Lulu, depending who you ask) is titled Hardwired…to Self-Destruct, and it will be released November 18. The band claims the new album contains 80 minutes of new music. The first single “Hardwired” is a catchy, hard hitting blast.
James obeys your master on Twitter.
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