Tag: review
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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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Bring Me the Horizon Tear Through DCU Center with Relentless Force

Ace Constantinou | Guest Photographer & Contributor Bring Me the Horizon tore through the DCU Center on Friday night, delivering a high-impact performance as part of their North America Ascension Program 2 tour. The stacked lineup featured Amira Elfeky, The Plot in You, and Motionless in White, making for a night that never let its…
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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…