Tag: hard rock
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Sapient Scar’s ‘Pay Forever’ Reminds Us That Pain Can Become Power

Ryan Murray | Co-Owner | Chief Editor | Contributor | Photographer r.m.music84@gmail.com There’s a special kind of ache that only great rock ballads can summon. It’s the kind that doesn’t just sting; it lingers. Sapient Scar’s new single, Pay Forever, which is out Friday, October 24th, delivers exactly that. Where their debut, Weak Is the…
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Thrice’s Horizons/West Smolders With Contrast and Clarity

Ryan Murray | Co-Owner | Chief Editor | Contributor | Photographer r.m.music84@gmail.com Thrice have always been a band in motion. Since emerging from the late ’90s Orange County post-hardcore scene, they’ve spent more than two decades refusing to be pinned down, shifting from hardcore grit to progressive experimentation to atmospheric rock. In 2021, Horizons/East marked…
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Three Days Grace Return with Adam Gontier Delivering Their Heaviest and Most Ambitious Album Yet

Ryan Murray | Co-Owner | Chief Editor | Contributor | Photographer r.m.music84@gmail.com There are albums that mark survival, and then there are albums that mark ascension. Alienation is not simply Three Days Grace surviving nearly three decades into their career — it’s them proving, once and for all, that the fire never went out. After…
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K-I-L-L-I-N-G Every Expectation: Everest Isn’t Just Halestorm’s Peak — It’s Their Legacy

Ryan Murray | Co-Owner | Chief Editor | Contributor | Photographer r.m.music84@gmail.com If Back From the Dead was Halestorm’s war cry, Everest is the soul laid bare after the smoke clears. With their sixth studio album, the Pennsylvania titans haven’t just pushed themselves — they’ve shattered their own blueprint. Everest doesn’t just climb; it ascends,…

