Tag: review
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Poppy’s ‘Empty Hands’ Hits Harder Than Anything You’d Expect
Ryan Murray | Co-Owner | Chief Editor | Contributor | Photographer r.m.music84@gmail.com Today, Poppy drops Empty Hands, her seventh studio album via Sumerian Records, and with it comes a stark reminder: she refuses to play by anyone else’s rules. Emerging from a career already marked by boundary-pushing experiments, GRAMMY nods, and uncanny performance art, Poppy…
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Megadeth Set to Unleash Their Final Strike
Ryan Murray | Co-Owner | Chief Editor | Contributor | Photographer r.m.music84@gmail.com There are very few bands whose absence would leave a crater rather than a gap. Megadeth are one of them—I can’t imagine metal without the standards they set. From the earliest days of Dave Mustaine turning rejection into obsession, Megadeth became metal’s proving…
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Soen Delivers Their Most Human Album Yet with Reliance
Ryan Murray | Co-Owner | Chief Editor | Contributor | Photographer r.m.music84@gmail.com Soen’s upcoming album Reliance, out Friday, January 16th via Silver Lining Music, is not a record that kicks the door in just for the sake of volume or virtuosity. Instead, it opens slowly, deliberately, like a deep breath before confession. It’s an album…
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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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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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