Montreal’s Synastry have made their video for the track “As The Dust Settles” available online here . The  video was directed by Chad Archibald (Arise & Ruin, 3 Mile Scream, Farewell To Freeway) and was shot in Kitchener, Ontario.
“We are both happy and proud of the way the video came out, and we have the [...]

Canada’s Glasgow Grin has signed with Year of the Sun Records for the release of their upcoming debut album Saints of the Greatest Sin.
Glasgow Grin’s debut is expected to surface in October 2008 and was recorded at Frozen Solid Studios with producer Matt Connell (Ex-Exhumed, Fuck the Facts) and mixed by Jamie King (Between The [...]

Although it sounds like an ominous technological term, the word Synastry actually comes from astrology, and refers to the concurrence or connection between two different signs and their influence on two individuals in a relationship. I’m not sure why the band chose this name - maybe it just sounded cool - but perhaps it’s a [...]

Thanks to the US postal service, it took numerous attempts an several months for me to get my copy of this for review from the label and after the wait, though I’m not completely sold, this is if anything, a very, very challenging and ambitious work.
If you think the likes of Between the Buried and [...]

Every year there are a few releases that kill a genre for me. This year, Bless The Fallen’s Eclectic Sounds of a City Painted Black and White and Of The First Born’s self titled debut EP has killed melodic metalcore for me.
Terrible, terrible cover, forced song writing and vocals and a plethora of utterly contrived [...]

So I suddenly find myself innundated with a plethora of deathcore releases by bands like Misericordiam, The Partisan Turbine, Rose Funeral, Whitechapel, Suicide Silence, Success Will Write Apocalypse Across The Sky and many others, yet the most low profile, yet surprisingly competent is this self titled debut EP from Ontario’s Dear Black Diary.
Though hardly plying [...]