by Jordeana Bell | Nov 13, 2025 | Reviews
If the Sex Pistols is the sneeze that announces punk’s head cold, Agnostic Front is the hangover that proves the infection has spread to the blood stream. These larger-than-legendary men have produced their 13th rapture of an album titled Echoes in Eternity. For...
by Jordeana Bell | Nov 12, 2025 | Reviews
MySpace was the Overlook Hotel of the internet; everybody thought it was a party until they realized they’d been wandering through a hedge maze built by sociopaths with webcams. Somewhere in that chaos, The Devil Wears Prada became a compass. They didn’t...
by Jordeana Bell | Nov 11, 2025 | Festivals, News
Let’s just be completely real here: going to a death metal festival is objectively better for your mental health than listening to Taylor Swift. This is not an opinion; this is anthropology with a side of neuroscience. When Taylor sings about emotional devastation,...
by Jordeana Bell | Nov 4, 2025 | New Music, Releases, Video
It’s a tad ironic to call any band the “most influential” anything, especially when that band has built its mythology on rejecting the premise of influence altogether. Yet here we are. Mayhem, the group that essentially invented non-metaphorically dangerous music, are...
by Jordeana Bell | Oct 29, 2025 | Reviews
There’s something almost romantic about the idea that Despised Icon managed to survive both deathcore’s mid-2000s cultural extinction and the internet’s insatiable need to parody anything sincere. Every metal band eventually has to confront its own...