Tag: review
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Katatonia Deliver What May Be Their Most Important Record in a Decade On “Nightmares as Extensions of the Waking State”

Ryan Murray | Co-Owner | Chief Editor | Contributor | Photographer r.m.music84@gmail.com Katatonia has long made a home in the shadows—peering through twilight with eyes that neither fear the dark nor fully surrender to it. For over three decades, they’ve stood as a lighthouse for the emotionally frayed, a band whose melodic despair doesn’t just…
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Arch Enemy’s Blood Dynasty Tour Ignites Times Square

Ryan Murray | Co-Owner | Chief Editor | Contributor | Photographer r.m.music84@gmail.com Sometimes chaos works in your favor. On May 2nd, the heart of Times Square surged with chaos and adrenaline. As Arch Enemy’s Blood Dynasty Tour descended upon Palladium Times Square, the city’s pulse was already pounding—thanks to the historic first-ever major boxing match…
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Pathos & Logos’ “Back To You” Tears the Soul in Two

Ryan Murray | Co-Owner | Chief Editor | Contributor | Photographer r.m.music84@gmail.com There’s an ache to this one. A weight. The kind that doesn’t just sit in the chest—it settles into the bones. Back To You, the third single from Pathos & Logos’ upcoming EP Gospel, doesn’t simply build upon the band’s explosive redefinition from…
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Sleep Token Unveils Final Single ‘Damocles’ Ahead of Forthcoming Album ‘Even In Arcadia’ Out May 9th via RCA

Ryan Murray | Co-Owner | Chief Editor |Contributor | Photographer r.m.music84@gmail.com Sleep Token, the mysterious British collective that has captivated the metal world with their emotional intensity and sonic shapeshifting, has just dropped their third single, “Damocles,” and it’s a haunting, thunderous milestone. Arriving alongside their move to RCA Records, this latest release deepens the…
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Ghost Trades Spectacle for Soul on ‘Skeletá’

Ryan Murray | Co-Owner | Chief Editor |Contributor | Photographer r.m.music84@gmail.com When it comes to Ghost, the expectation is always more than music. It’s pageantry, provocation, and the sense that beneath the robes and smoke machines, something wonderfully wicked is unfolding. And for nearly two decades, Tobias Forge has delivered just that—a devilish theatricality dressed…
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Napalm Label Mates Edge of Paradise, Xandria, and Delain Set NYC’s Gramercy Theater Ablaze with Passion and Power

Ryan Murray | Co-Owner | Chief Editor | Contributor | Photographer r.m.music94@gmail.com Some shows feel big, and others feel like a moment in time—something powerful, unrepeatable, and absolutely electrifying. On March 23rd, NYC’s Gramercy Theater transformed into a battleground of symphonic and melodic metal, where Delain, Xandria, and Edge of Paradise delivered performances that weren’t…