Category: reviews
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Cherry Red Apocalypse Is Melissa Bonny’s Most Personal, Bold, and Explosive Work to Date
Ryan Murray | Co-Owner | Chief Editor | Contributor | Photographer r.m.music84@gmail.com There are moments when an artist stops negotiating with expectation and instead takes full ownership of it. Cherry Red Apocalypse is that moment for Melissa Bonny. Releasing independently on January 23rd, the album doesn’t read as a side project or an indulgent detour…
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Beyond The Black’s ‘Break The Silence’ Is an Anthem for a Divided World
Ryan Murray | Co-Owner | Chief Editor | Contributor | Photographer r.m.music84@gmail.com There are moments when a band stops chasing momentum and instead becomes it. With Break The Silence, Beyond The Black don’t just step into their next era, they rise above it. This sixth full-length is cinematic melodic metal at its most expansive, a…
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Alter Bridge Self Titled 2026 Album Is a Hard Rock Masterpiece You Can’t Ignore
Ryan Murray | Co-Owner | Chief Editor | Contributor | Photographer r.m.music84@gmail.com Twenty-one years in, Alter Bridge aren’t chasing relevance, they’re refining legacy. Their self-titled eighth album, Alter Bridge, arrives not as a victory lap, but as a declaration: this is who we are now. Sharper, heavier, more introspective, and somehow still hungry, the Florida…
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ANNISOKAY’s Abyss – The Final Chapter Delivers the Triumphant, Crushing Finale You’ll Never Forget
Ryan Murray | Co-Owner | Chief Editor | Contributor | Photographer r.m.music84@gmail.com There’s an unmistakable electricity that ripples through modern metalcore whenever a band reaches the crossroads between evolution and culmination—when years of sonic refinement, conceptual ambition, and sheer emotional force suddenly converge into something that feels definitive. ANNISOKAY have flirted with this threshold before.…
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The Pretty Wild’s zero.point.genesis Delivers a Reckoning You’ll Never Forget
Ryan Murray | Co-Owner | Chief Editor | Contributor | Photographer There’s a moment in the lifecycle of any rising band where potential suddenly detonates into something undeniable. Not a slow-burn ascent, not a polite unfurling, but an eruption. zero.point.genesis, the debut LP from Vegas sister-duo The Pretty Wild, is exactly that kind of rupture:…
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Trivium Headlines The Wellmont, Joined by Heriot and Jinjer for a Night of Explosive Metal
Ryan Murray | Co-Owner | Chief Editor | Contributor | Photographer r.m.music84@gmail.com The Wellmont was already buzzing before the first note struck, the packed floor pressing against the barricade like a living thing, bodies swaying with anticipation. From the photo pit, you could see it all — the nervous energy, the gleam in fans’ eyes,…
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