Metal playlists from the underground
Louisiana quartet Another Big Machine takes the well paved pop-rock route of Nickelback and Daughtry, and mixes it with dollops of country twang and Warped Tour edge on their latest offering ABM. Successfully soaring with lush instrumentation, a la sellout-era Aerosmith, should garnish a slew of pop-rock interest for this unit — but there’s a […]
Orange County metalcore quintet, how redundant, huh? Add End the Century’s name into the bingo cage of bands whose feral screaming sounds like a rabid animal’s revenge, as the six-track Hammer and the Anvil presents a band full of fire but seriously lacking the compelling compositions to properly get their power across. Tinny guitars, stock […]
Happy Birthday to David Lee Roth [1954]. Arguably, the greatest front man of all time, Diamond Dave shined in Van Halen, rocked even harder on his solo records, and provided a few hours of entertainment as a talk radio personality. Take a few minutes today to indulge in this legendary performer’s achievements. Classic 1982 MTV […]
White bread pop punk from five dudes from Indiana best describes The Sincerities EP from The Method to My Medium. This Indiana quintet sure know their New Found Glory and Starting Line catalog, as they regurgitate it back up across this annoyingly electronically manipulated 10-track affair whose vocoder-enhanced vocals and glitched beats come off as […]
Buffalo, NY trio Lemuria play a type of female-led, male-response vocal rock that takes its cues from 90’s indie rock. Get Better is a 12-track offering laden with a slight guitar crunch that rocks hard on “Mechanical” and follows the sticky sweet little girl melody on “Get Some Sleep,” helping this band shed its innocuous […]
There’s a certain 90’s slacker rock quality, audible on Home that would remind you of J. Mascis or Rivers Cuomo at their most acerbic. The latest endeavor by Ted Rosedale celebrates crunch-ridden malaise on cuts like “Green” and “619” on this album. But for all the tasty guitar licks emulating everyone from David Gilmour to […]
Calling the latest offering by Polish powerhouse quartet, Third Degree, just a grindcore album is a bit misleading despite the vicious velocity of tracks like the Napalm Death-esque “Thoughts” — as many other underground metal sub-genres play a large role in making Punk Sugar such an enraged and misanthropic monster. Adorned with hearty helpings of […]
By Mike SOS Greek troupe, Reflection, present a classic metal release with When Shadows Fall. Keyboard heavy and operatic, this 12-track’s disc’s tone falls somewhere between the epic strokes Blind Guardian uses and the sonic bombast of Fates Warning, even going so far as to include a full-on orchestral version of “Mistress of Sea,” complete […]
By Mike SOS Bursting with pop music pomp, the latest nine-track endeavor by Secret Dakota Ring finds mainman, Andy Ross [OK Go guitarist] and friends, dabbling in giddy 60’s rock motifs complete with Burt Bacharach-like compositions and instrumentations, rich vocal harmonies, well-placed string arrangements, and delicate melodies. Cantarell is a lighthearted affair that wouldn’t sound […]
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