Tag: review
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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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Lord of the Lost Turn Finality Into Art on OPVS NOIR Vol. 3
Ryan Murray | Co-Owner | Chief Editor | Contributor | Photographer r.m.music84@gmail.com There are bands that flirt with ambition—and then there’s Lord of the Lost, who have spent the better part of this decade consumed by it. What began as a daring conceptual thread with OPVS NOIR Vol. 1 and deepened into something more immersive…
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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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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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Ad Infinitum Headlines The Meadows & Sets NYC Ablaze
Ryan Murray | Co-Owner | Chief Editor | Contributor | Photographer r.m.music84@gmail.com Symfinity opened the evening with sweeping ambition, Miracle rising gradually as layered instrumentation filled Brooklyn Meadows with cinematic weight. The atmosphere expanded almost immediately — strings, keys, and guitars interweaving into a sound that felt both theatrical and grounded. Seann’s vocals carried steady…
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