FEATURED ALBUM REVIEWS back to album reviews home Artist: Destruction Title: Metal Discharge Label: Nuclear Blast Purchase at: Interpunk Purchase at: Amazon The reigning motherfuckin’ kings of metal have returned. There’s just no two ways about it, Destruction are the best ‘rip…
The Distillers “Coral Fang” (Warner) Even though she may be the most hated woman in punk rock for dumping Tim Armstrong (Rancid), it’s Brody Armstrong’s music that is under the microscope today, not her personal life. The success of the…
Down by Law “Windward Tides and Wayward Sails” (Union Label Group) Raw and full of life, Down by Law holds steadfast to the principles that make punk what it is. This may not be their strongest work, but the familiar…
Down to Nothing “Save it for the Birds” (Thorp Records) I’m watching the Raiders game right now. I told you I’d cave. No matter how much watching football puts me to sleep, here I am, craning my neck away from…
The Dukes of Nothing “War and Wine” (Tortuga Records) I got caught out in a lightening storm last night. It was totally rad, only it was sort of scary. And wet. Also scary is The Dukes of Nothing. These guys…
El Centro“Prohibido”(Finger Records) Orange County, California. Great, I’ve never been oversaturated with music from that demographic… nope, not ever. But if I was, I would be more than willing to predict that it sounded something like El Centro. Some borrowed…
Envy “A Dead Sinking Story” (Level Plane) Japanese hardcore! The lyrics are actually in Japanese too. Now this is cool, I can’t ever understand hardcore bands vocals and now it doesn’t matter. The music is edgy and intense, with bridges…
Evergreen Terrace “Losing All Hope is Freedom” (Indianola) Wahh? This release is like forty years old. Actually, it’s two, but that’s a long time in music years. Two years ago, Earth Crisis was a band, those goofy numetal clowns in…
From Autumn To Ashes “The Fiction We Live” (Vagrant) The more ‘The Fiction We Live’ rattles around in my trusty old CD player, the more I realize that From Autumn to Ashes are being dealt one crummy hand. While Avenged…
Brian Jonestown Massacre “..And This is our Music” (Tee Pee Records) Shimmering, neo-psychedelic cosmic space ballads fill this CD. The paisley-printed music is stylistically uniformed and alluring in its sublime beauty. These songs bask in a soft, lysergic glow of…