Metal playlists from the underground
The new rock release of the week is Twisted Sister’s Stay Hungry, a double-disc celebration of the album’s 25th anniversary. Disc one features the remastered classic cuts (“SMF” still has the greatest groove of the bunch) and the second disc contains demos, outtakes, unreleased tracks, and a new song. “30,” the first brand new track […]
In order to celebrate the release of Dream Theater’s latest studio album, Black Clouds & Silver Linings, I am offering detailed reviews of each of the six tracks throughout the week. Track 5: “The Best of Times” On “The Best of Times,” Rudess delivers the prettiest keyboard intro heard on any Dream Theater song to […]
Blood of the Black Owl is a one-man metal band whose latest disc A FERAL SPIRIT embraces the worship of nature and its aesthetic beauty but not before it takes you by the throat to drag you down into the depths of the abyss. This sprawling nine-track excursion enlists unorthodox Native American instrumentation, animal and […]
In order to celebrate the release of Dream Theater’s latest studio album, Black Clouds & Silver Linings, I am offering detailed reviews of each of the six tracks throughout the week. Track 4: “The Shattered Fortress” “The Shattered Fortress” is the fifth and final track of the Twelve-Step Suite, which began with “The Glass Prison” […]
The music world has lost a legend, however, the King of Pop’s music will live on forever. There will only be one Elvis and for sure, there will only be one Michael Jackson. Rest in Peace (1958-2009) -Nza
In order to celebrate the release of Dream Theater’s latest studio album, Black Clouds & Silver Linings, I am offering detailed reviews of each of the six tracks throughout the week. Track 3: “Wither” The shortest track of the album, and most radio-friendly, begins with an acoustic riff on the same path of Sixx A.M.’s […]
In order to celebrate the release of Dream Theater’s latest studio album, Black Clouds And Silver Linings, I am offering detailed reviews of each of the six tracks throughout the week. Track 2: “A Rite of Passage” The progressive metal gods released “A Rite of Passage,” the first single from Black Clouds about a month […]
In order to celebrate the release of Dream Theater’s latest studio album, Black Clouds And Silver Linings, I will offer detailed reviews of each of the six tracks throughout the week. Track 1: “A Nightmare To Remember” What better way to begin a record with the words “Black Clouds” in the title than to include […]
Re-released from 2007, Texas grindcore trio Insect Warfare’s WORLD EXTERMINATION gets the re-release treatment courtesy of Earache, and hail Satan for that! This disc yields a blindingly-fast and corrosively abrasive metallic mauling, essential for fans of Brutal Truth, Napalm Death, and Nasum to get their crusty claws on. Broken down into 20-tracks clocking in at […]
NYC trio Tombs masterfully juxtapose metal subgenres to develop a blend of bleak yet menacing shoegazing sludge on the 10-track disc WINTER HOURS. Post-hardcore pondering and black metal brutality collide many times over on this stirring affair (“Filled With Secrets,” “Gossamer”), creating explosive waves of intense aggression laden with dense dollops of doom and darkness […]