Category: reviews
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A Lifetime of Vision – Devin Townsend’s ‘The Moth’ Is His Most Ambitious Work Yet
Ryan Murray | Co-Owner | Chief Editor | Contributor | Photographer r.m.music84@gmail.com Canadian progressive visionary Devin Townsend has never been an artist content with standing still. Across decades of chaos, beauty, extremity, and introspection, he has continuously reshaped his sound into entirely new worlds—the spiritual grandeur of Empath, or the deeply human vulnerability of Lightwork.…
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Alter Bridge Ignite NJ’s The Wellmont with Tim Montana and Filter
Ryan Murray | Co-Owner | Chief Editor | Contributor | Photographer r.m.music84@gmail.com Some tours feel big on paper. Others feel massive the second the lights go down. When Alter Bridge brought their What Lies Within Tour to Wellmont Theater, it became immediately clear this was going to be one of those nights. With an absolutely…
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HOKKA’s Via Miseria IV Rewrites Suffering Into Something Almost Sacred
Ryan Murray | Co-Owner | Chief Editor | Contributor | Photographer r.m.music84@gmail.com There’s a certain mythology that forms when musicians stop being “former members of bands” and start becoming something else entirely. HOKKA feels like one of those moments. Not a project built in spreadsheets or label meetings, but something carved out of shared loss,…
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“Acquired Immunity” Marks a Defining, Cinematic Turning Point for Catalyst Crime
Ryan Murray | Co-Owner | Chief Editor | Contributor | Photographer r.m.music84@gmail.com Cinematic metal has always flirted with grandeur, but Catalyst Crime have been steadily carving out something far more dangerous—something that doesn’t just sound massive, but feels like it’s teetering on the edge of collapse and rebirth at the same time. Acquired Immunity is…
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Nearly 16,000 Lose Themselves in Chaos as Three Days Grace and Friends Dominate Elmont NY’s UBS Arena
Ryan Murray | Co-Owner | Chief Editor | Contributor | Photographer r.m.music84@gmail.com On Thursday, March 12th, UBS Arena in Elmont erupted. From the instant the first lights hit the stage, the arena shook with anticipation. Nearly 16,000 voices collided in a roar that rolled through the seats and pulsed across the floor. Each act fed…
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ERRA Deliver Their Most Emotionally Devastating Album Yet With ‘silence outlives the earth’
Ryan Murray | Co-Owner | Chief Editor | Contributor | Photographer r.m.music84@gmail.com For a band whose entire identity has been built on contrast—beauty and violence, clarity and chaos, the human and the cosmic—ERRA have always existed in the spaces between. But on their seventh full-length album, silence outlives the earth, the Alabama metal visionaries don’t…
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