Category: reviews
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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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Setting Sail at Full Force: LOVEBITES Sign to Napalm Records and Unleash ‘Outstanding Power’
Ryan Murray | Co-Owner | Chief Editor | Contributor | Photographer r.m.music84@gmail.com Japanese power metal has never been shy about spectacle—but few bands embody precision, fire, and theatrical triumph quite like LOVEBITES. Now, the Tokyo-born quintet are charting their boldest course yet, officially signing a worldwide deal (excluding Asia) with Austria’s powerhouse metal imprint Napalm…
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The Veer Union Deliver Their Most Ambitious Work Yet With ‘Reinvention’
Ryan Murray | Co-Owner | Chief Editor | Contributor | Photographer r.m.music84@gmail.com For a band that first cut through the noise in the radio era with the urgency of SEASONS, longevity was never guaranteed. The late 2000s were a different battlefield — one where spins determined survival and algorithms didn’t yet dictate discovery. Nearly two…
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