Beyond the Embrace “Against the Elements” (Metal Blade) Melodic metal with hoarse screaming vocals (but not all the time) sometimes the singer does something some might call singing, a kind of singing that reminds me a little of the vocalist…
Black Tape for a Blue Girl ““The Scavenger Bride”” (Projekt) Gothic DIY superstars Black Tape for a Blue Girl have been around since 1986, apparently, and are still doing it their own way on their own label with their own…
Bloodlet “Three Humid Nights in the Cypress Trees” (Victory Records) I had a big plan for today. I was going to get up and go to the Laundromat to take care of some washing. While my clothes were busy drying…
Brothers of Conquest “All the Colors of Darkness” (Go Kart Records) The South is a weird place. I was out in Florida for a job interview last year and some guy was showing me around a few towns outside of…
The Catheters “Static Delusions and Stone-still Days” (Sub Pop Records) The Catheters sound pretty much like you would expect a band calling themselves The Catheters to sound: rough, angry, and loud. Their DIY aesthetic, heavy on distortion, could easily be…
Anti-Flag “Mobilize” (A-F Records) Peace punkers Anti-Flag return with their fifth full-length release on their very own A-F records after selling 100,000+ copies of “Underground Network” on Fat Wreck Chords. The band has a highly accessible friendly punk sound that…
All That Remains “Behind Silence and Solitude” (Prosthetic Records) All that Remains are a five piece death metal band hailing from Western Massachusetts. They are a very aggressively melodic metal band. They seem to have a strong European influence. You…
Sixty Stories / Painted Thin “Different Places to Sit / A Loveless Kiss” (Smallman Records) This is a split CD, with seven songs from Sixty Stories and five more from the regrettably defunct Painted Thin. What do these two bands…
A Life Once Lost “The Fourth Plague: Flies” (Robodog Records) The first sounds out of this CD will change you forever. Leaping from the stereo at about 500 Mph are the five loudest and fastest tracks you will ever hear.…