Abso-DEMO ’24 I was doing my usual scrolling on Instagram when I saw someone share the demo from ABSO. The description was 80s Boston X-Claim worship, which is precisely my thing. The anger that comes from SSD and others from that time still resonates with… Read More »Step 2 Rhythm-February 2024
It’s fair to say that when Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs The Tour was announced, many fans of the lineup were already committed before tickets went on sale. The tour kicked off in Anaheim, California at the House of Blues. With the show being sold out, it was… Read More »Photography: Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs – The Tour
It’s been six years since Iowa death metal trio Mutilated by Zombies released their last album, Scripts of Anguish. As I wrote then, Mutilated by Zombies executed the classic, meat-and-potatoes style of death metal with the precision and savagery needed in the genre but it left the question… Read More »Full Album Stream: Mutilated by Zombies – “Scenes From the Afterlife”
Where they from? Zdar Nad Sazavou, Chechnya. Say that 10 times fast! The NFL Combine was this past weekend. I’m a pretty big sports fan but I always violently ignore the NFL offseason, usually because I’m still so pissed off at whatever debacle the Jets… Read More »Blast Worship: Sick Destroyer
Rather than lean harder into their own sound, LE SSERAFIM’s newest album feels like a bid to become another NewJeans. The problem is, HYBE already has a NewJeans and they’d do much better to diversify the style of the roster. It’s easy to see why… Read More »Song Review: LE SSERAFIM – Smart