Tag: review
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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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Through Fire, Flames, and (Yes) Flying Chickens – DragonForce Tear Up Toad’s Place
Ryan Murray | Co-Owner | Chief Editor | Contributor | Photographer r.m.music84@gmail.com When DragonForce storms into town, it’s never just a concert—it’s an adrenaline-fueled spectacle that fuses blistering guitar work with sheer, unrelenting fun. Having covered them before at New York City’s Palladium Times Square, I walked into Toad’s Place in New Haven thinking I…
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Lorna Shore’s ‘I Feel The Everblack Festering Within Me’ May Have Just Claimed Metal’s Album of the Year
Ryan Murray | Co-Owner | Chief Editor | Contributor | Photographer r.m.music84@gmail.com Lorna Shore have never been a band content to simply exist within the boundaries of genre. Since their earliest recordings, they’ve operated like sonic alchemists, transforming deathcore’s raw aggression into something both calculated and apocalyptic. Their forthcoming album, I Feel The Everblack Festering…
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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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BABYMETAL’s Metal Forth Is a Genre-Bending Gamble That Mostly Pays Off
Ryan Murray | Co-Owner | Chief Editor | Contributor | Photographer r.m.music84@gmail.com It’s wild to think that BABYMETAL have now been bending reality for 15 years. What started as a genre-defying curiosity has solidified into a full-fledged institution—one that, despite its chaos and contradictions, has always had a surprisingly focused mission: blow the walls off…
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Auri III: “Candles and ‘Beginnings” is a Living, Breathing Journey Through Memory, Time and Wonder
Ryan Murray | Co-Owner | Chief Editor | Contributor | Photographer r.m.music84@gmail.com Some music doesn’t just play — it remembers. It doesn’t begin with a note, but with a flicker: the soft hiss of a candle lighting the way back to places you’ve never been, yet somehow always known. With AURI III: Candles and Beginnings, the…
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