Being a near-40 year old who grew up in the Northeast, it probably comes as little surprise to you that the American Metalcore and New Wave of American Heavy Metal movements of the early ’00s played a pretty pivotal role in my music fandom. While I certainly cut my teeth on the usual suspects of […]

I had really high hopes for this, as I saw the bands self described ‘fantasycore’, and was hoping for some sort of Blind Guardian or Bal-Sagoth deathcore mash up. Unfortunately what you get is some pretty standard, more commercial, if solid modern keyboard-heavy, metalcore/ tech/dent core that you’d find on Sumerian Records, except the difference […]

  When Erik asked if anyone wanted to review the new Emmure album no one was chomping at the bit to do the review, except for me.  Being a long standing fan of the band, I really wanted to review this. I know how polarizing the band is to many in the metal community, due […]