Monthly Archives: February 2009

Review: Dog Fashion Disco – Beating A Dead Horse To Death…Again [2008]

Posted on February 28, 2009 by gearsofrock

Digging through the vaults once again, eccentric Maryland metal squad Dog Fashion Disco have dug deep and have excavated 14 more tracks to share with the rest of its “mushroom cult” with BEATING A DEAD HORSE TO DEATH…AGAIN. Posting a … Continue reading →

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Announced: Def Leppard, Poison, and Cheap Trick Summer 2009 Tour Dates

Posted on February 27, 2009 by gearsofrock

Hard rockers Def Leppard, Poison, and Cheap Trick will be hitting the road together this summer for a 40 date US tour. Very interesting…who remembers Joe Elliot trash talking Poison last summer? 23-June Camden, NJ 25-June Cuyahoga Falls, OH 26-June … Continue reading →

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Announced: Rockstar Energy Mayhem Festival 2009 Summer Tour Dates

Posted on February 27, 2009 by gearsofrock

The 2009 Mayhem Festival is gearing up to be one of this summer’s concert tour highlights with Slayer and Marilyn Manson playing the headlining role. Other featured metal bands include Bullet For My Valentine, Cannibal Corpse, Trivium, All That Remains, … Continue reading →

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Review: Asva – What You Don't Know Is Frontier [2008]

Posted on February 27, 2009 by gearsofrock

Supplying seventy minutes of severe doom and drone, the latest effort by Asva is a sparse slow-churning affair that tries your patience more times than you can count before making good on resonating thick empiric riffs from the bowels of … Continue reading →

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Review: Banner Pilot – Resignation Day [2008]

Posted on February 26, 2009 by gearsofrock

Minneapolis punk trio Banner Pilot steps up with their second offering, the 12-track RESIGNATION DAY. Determined to keep sneering punk rock front and center, songs like “Saltash Luck” and “Wired Wrong” may suffer from sounding a bit too much like … Continue reading →

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Announced: Crue Fest 2009 Summer Tour Dates

Posted on February 25, 2009 by gearsofrock

Crüe Fest featuring Mötley Crüe is back for its second year this summer and will also include the following hard rock bands: Godsmack, Theory of a Deadman, Drowning Pool, and Charm City Devils. In addition, Mötley Crüe will perform their … Continue reading →

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Review: M. – In Absentia [2008]

Posted on February 25, 2009 by gearsofrock

NYC artist Marthyn (or M. for short) pieces together a smorgasbord of jagged lo-fi juxtapositions, further developing this middle-ground musicians’s rulebending visions and unique style in the process on the 13-track IN ABSENTIA. Seemingly strung together from a bizarre crop … Continue reading →

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Review: Miseration – Your Demons-Their Angels [2008]

Posted on February 24, 2009 by gearsofrock

At first acting as a side project for two of the members of Scar Symmetry before vocalist Christian Alvestam decided to leave the fold, Miseration explores a more extreme style more in tune with bands like Morbid Angel and the … Continue reading →

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Review: The Becoming – Volume 1 [2008]

Posted on February 23, 2009 by gearsofrock

Christian Goth punks? Sheesh. The Becoming take the word of the Lord and inject some HIM into the mix for this slickly produced exercise in transparency. Labeling this quintet of Hot Topic models as a dark rock group is downright … Continue reading →

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Review: MxPx – On The Cover II [2009]

Posted on February 22, 2009 by gearsofrock

After nearly 15 years since the release of On The Cover, Christian pop punk rockers MxPx are serving up a second helping of cover songs. On The Cover II features mainly renditions of 80′s cuts such as The Proclaimers’ “I’m … Continue reading →

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