Review: Reach the Sky
Reach the Sky ““Friends, Lies, and the End of the World”” (Victory Records) So much good stuff from this Boston foursome it’s hard to decide just what to say. I’ll start with the vocals-Ian Larrabee is not afraid to wear…
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Review: Rydell
Rydell ““Per Ardua Ad Astra”” (Cargo Music / Headhunter Records) Apparently, the United States’ newfound love of all things emo has seeped across the Atlantic Ocean to bonny ol’ England. It must be tough to be an emo kid in…
Review: Sandman
Sandman ““No Secrets, No Lies”” (Lifestyle Records) Sandman hails from Minnesota, and his lyrical style shows the influence of fellow Midwesterners Bone Thugs-n-Harmony. Bone never really did anything for me, but armed with the rapid-fire, sing-song flow that BTNH made…
Review: Gandalf
Gandalf ““Rock Hell”” (Earache Records) Perhaps I’’ve been out of the musical loop for awhile, but Gandalf wasn’’t exactly what I expected to hear when throwing a disc in the old player by a band on the Earache label. Sure…
Review: Kreator
Kreator ““Past Life Trauma”” (Noise) I’’ve always loved Kreator. When the American metal scene was slowly but surely turning into a bunch of watered down pussies, the German scene was there for me: speedier, ballsier, screeching, wailing guitars, sore throated…
Review: LWL
LWL ““Quarter Life Crisis”” (Pinball Records) This sho am good, like Rice-a-Roni with chunks of hotdog in a pool of barbeque sauce. It’s not as good as one of those world record breaker gangbang videos, but really – what is?…
Review: Labyrinth
Labyrinth ““Sons Of Thunder”” (Metal Blade Records) Labyrinth, in typical power metal format is heavily in to the story or concept album. Which isn’’t bad when you one hear one or two, but it seems like every other one is…
Review: Lenny Kravitz
Lenny Kravitz ““Greatest Hits”” (Virgin Records) Undeniably one of the most spiritual and soulful artists to grace the music scene in recent years, Kravitz has accumulated a remarkable spectrum of successes to include on a greatest hits album that has…
Review: Madcap
Madcap ““Stand Your ground”” (Sideonedummy) Arg, annoying when the music is good but the vocals fall short. Hate to start a CD review out like this, but it has to be done. The album bursts out of the stereo with…
Review: Encore
Encore ““Self Preservation”” (75 Ark Records) Prince Paul and Dan the Automator’s 1999 Handsome Boy Modeling School collaboration featured big names like Grand Puba, Sadat X, Mike D, and Del the Funkee Homosapien, but San Francisco MC Encore grabbed attention…