Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor April 23, 2013 Zodiac Swan Records / T-Boy Records / Universal Music Enterprises After over twenty years of making music, it would be easy for an artist to fall into old habits and stale patterns of crafting music. It would be easy to stick to the typical
Category: Album Reviews
Korn; The Paradigm Shift
The Paradigm Shift October 10th, 2013 “Good bye. So Long. Wish I could stay but everything is all wrong.” When Brian “Head” Welch left Korn in 2004, many of us wondered what Korn would be like without the support and influence of one of its founding members. When drummer David
A Perfect Circle; A Perfect Circle Live: Featuring Stone and Echo
November 26th, 2013 A Perfect Circle Live: Featuring Stone and Echo The long awaited box-set, A Perfect Circle Live: Featuring Stone and Echo, is a great example of why more bands should release their live shows to the mass public. A Perfect Circle played only a handfull of dates during
Hanzel und Gretyl; Fur Immer
October 8th, 2013 Metroplois Records While “Hanzel und Gretyl Für Immer” is an album comprised entirely of remixes of their previous release, “Born To Be Heiled”, the new interpretations of these tracks shine a whole new light on the studio versions released last year and prove that HuG is not a typical
Nine Inch Nails; Hesitation Marks
Hesitation Marks August 30th, 2013 Columbia Records While not what many of the so-called hardcore Nine Inch Nails fans would consider a typical NIN release, Hesitation Marks is none the less an amazing body of work. Influences from Trent Reznor’s career can be heard through the release. Being Reznor’s eigth studio album,
KMFDM; KUNST
February 26th, 2013 Metropolis Records How much more music does Sascha Konietzko have in him? 2014 will be the band’s 30th anniversary and “KUNST” is KMFDM’s 18th full length studio release. Konietkzo and wife Lucia Cifarelli have found the perfect vocal pairing for KMFDM. KUNST follows the same formula for success that the
A Perfect Circle; Three Sixty
A Perfect Circle Three Sixty (Standard and Deluxe Edition) Universal Music Enterprises (UMe) November 19th, 2013 I hesitate to call A Perfect Circle’s Three Sixty release a “Greatest Hits” album. The phrase often means a band is finished making music and their label wants to squeeze every penny they can out
Gary Numan; Splinter (Songs From a Broken Mind)
At the age of 55 and with a career already spanning nearly 35 years, Numan is far from retiring. For those of you who aren’t familiar with Gary Numan, many consider him to be the founding father of the electronic and industrial music genres. Numan is sited as influencing generations of musicians, the
Front line Assembly, Echogenetic
Front line Assembly Echogenetic Metropolis Records 9 July 2013 With the new alum Echogenetic, long running industrialists Front Line Assembly show a new facet of this respected band. Mastermind Bill Leeb, along with Jeremy Inkel, Jared Slingerland, Craig Johnsen, and Sasha Keevill have created a concussive, driving opus. Completely guitar
Filter; The Sun Comes Out Tonight
Filter The Sun Comes Out Tonight June 4th, 2013 Wind-up Records Filter’s 6th studio album, and their first on Wind-up Records, once again finds founder Richard Patrick’s muse evolving into a larger animal. Patrick aimed for the album to sound like “…something that was exactly like Short Bus (Filter’s 1995 debut release) but
Army of the Universe; The Hipster Sacrifice
The Hipster Sacrifice Metropolis Records 14 May 2013 The Army Of The Universe was founded in 2008 by Electronic Dance producer Trebla and Lord K, lead singer of the band Kult of the Skull God. In 2010, guitar player Dave Tavecchia joined the band and one year later Chris Vrenna
Otep; Hydra
Ot6p Hydra Victory Records January 22nd, 2013 Heralded as Otep Shamaya’s last release, Hydra is a visceral tale of tragedy, deceit and destiny that would make Shakespeare shudder. Shamaya found her musical soulmate in Iowa native, and founder of the now defuct metal band Destrophy, Ari Mihalopoulos. With the help of
Hurt, The Crux
Hurt The Crux May 1st, 2012 Carved Records It’s been 3 years since we have had a full album from Hurt. Their highly anticipated 6th studio album, The Crux, had it’s release date pushed back and is now set to hit stores on May 1, 2012. The albums first single,
Otep; Sounds Like Armageddon
Otep Sounds Like Armageddon November 6th, 2012 Victory Records If only more bands cared enough about their fans to release live albums with as much intensity as Otep has. Sounds Like Armageddon combines every spectacular aspect of Otep’s live shows into one release that is available for all the fans
HALO 4 Original Soundtrack
Halo 4 Original SOundtrack 343 Industries October 19th, 2012 Let’s get a few things out of the way first. I am not a gamer. The last video game I played was Super Mario for Wii. I’ve never played any of the HALO releases but I admit that they look great