by Jeff Podoshen | Feb 5, 2019 | Reviews
Misery Index’s Rituals of Power is an unabashed wallop of aggressive extremity. These nine tracks are going to whack you right in the forehead and just never give up. There is an obvious urgency here, even a bit more apparent than past Misery releases. There is little...
by Jeff Podoshen | Feb 1, 2019 | Lists, Top 5
Top 5 Things I’d Like to See on the Final Slayer Tour: 05) Opening with “War Ensemble.” Yes, I love the opening that they do with “Repentless,” however, there’s no topping “War Ensemble” as a way to really work the crowd into a frenzy. I still remember dropping the...
by Jeff Podoshen | Feb 1, 2019 | News, Releases
Rush’s iconic bassist and lead vocalist has just released a beautiful and majestic coffee table style book entitled, Geddy Lee’s Big Beautiful Book of Bass: A Compendium of the Rare, Iconic, and Weird. The book, of course, is anything but weird but rather a thick and...
by Jeff Podoshen | Jan 31, 2019 | Reviews
Finland’s Swallow the Sun brings their cold, atmospheric brand of doomy, melodic extreme metal with a hefty dose of melancholy. When A Shadow is Forced Into the Light is a masterful foray into Northern doom. Dark and beautiful. Majestic yet...
by Jeff Podoshen | Jan 31, 2019 | Lists, Top 5
This coming March, Youth of Today featuring their We’re Not in This Alone lineup, plays a one-off show at the Brooklyn Bazaar. While Youth of Today had many iterations, all lineups are truly considered classic. The impact of bands like Youth of Today and other acts on...