by Jordeana Bell | Nov 28, 2025 | Reviews
I should begin with a confession: I am, by all measurable standards, a closet stoner. Not the slack-jawed stereotype who lives inside of a Bob Marley poster, and not the cardigan-wearing medical user with laminated documentation explaining that indica helps their...
by Emily Schneider | Nov 24, 2025 | Photos, Reviews
Melodeath is one of my favorite metal subgenres, both to listen to and to see live. So when Omnium Gatherum announced a North American tour to start just after the release of their new album, May the Bridges We Burn Light the Way, alongside Aether Realm and...
by Jordeana Bell | Nov 21, 2025 | Reviews
So, there’s paying homage to the greats (which I get), but then there’s what Jimmie Hong is doing. In a musical landscape where “influence” usually means “we listened to Master of Puppets once,” Hong is quietly pulling off something...
by Jordeana Bell | Nov 14, 2025 | Reviews
I’ve been waiting for this Lamp of Murmuur album the way a cursed romantic waits for a letter that will never arrive. Not patiently—no one in metal is patient—but with the neurotic anticipation of someone who’s certain the universe is withholding something...
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...