As “Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Silence” by Glassjaw reaches it’s 21st Anniversary having been recorded at Indigo Ranch in Malibu California with Ross Robinson (KoRn, Slipknot, Limp Bizkit), it’s time we tipped our hats to the band and especially the axis of vocalist Daryl Palumbo and guitarist Justin Beck for effectively birthing
Is going all the way back to 1996 and “Number One“, the debut album from Staten Island New York Alternative Metallers Pist.On for “Grey Flap” as controversial as it appeared to be 25 years ago? The album, recorded at Systems Two Recording in Brooklyn New York with Type-O-Negative keyboard player Josh Silver in the production
…with Hamburg Germany based Death Metallers Incarceration about to unleash hell in the form of their raw sounding 80’s demo tape worshipping EP “Empiricism” on 16th April, we’ve decided to head back to 2013 and “Forsaken and Forgotten” from their EP “Sacrifice” for todays throwback cut. A piece of classic old school Death Metal which
There is a name that is mentioned all too often in certain Metal circles, largely down to a revolving door of some 35 odd musicians at least having been part of a particular band over their 25 year career. That band was Motogrator, who formed way back in 1995 in Santa Barbara California and took
A band that imploded during a US tour in 2010 for multiple reasons including the ill health of mastermind Scott Rose, Rikets were an Industrial Metal outfit from Oklahoma that started out in 2004 and rose to prominence with their debut EP “Anything For The Devil“. Working with producer and Switched vocalist Ben Schigel (Drowning
Relaxing the “it has to be at least a decade old” rule this week as quite frankly rules are made to be broken, we’re heading to Bologna Italy for “Waiting for the Hyenas” from Death Metallers Across The Swarm for today’s throwback track of choice. It was the single that reportedly landed them a deal
As Spanish Pizza Thrash act Crisix are celebrating a decade of destruction of their seminal debut album “The Menace” we’ve decided to pay tribute to them and the classic single “Ultra Thrash“, a song so damn good that it has its very own beer dedicated to it! The band got together in 2008 and recorded
Four EPs and Five albums since 1998 has seen Industrial Rock act Kidneythieves, led by Free Dominguez (vocals) and Bruce Somers (guitar, engineering, programming) through more than two decades of music. Having their song “Before I’m Dead” featured in the 2002 film “Queen of the Damned” where it joined the likes of Static-X, Disturbed and
Taking inspiration from Deftones, Tool and Faith No More, Wilkes Barre Pennsylvania Alternative Metal act Lifer rose to prominence having entered MTV’s Ultimate Cover Band Contest in the year 2000. They already had a reputation as a covers band regionally being thrown onto the national stage exposed them to a wider audience and a major
Another band that faded away after selling 100k of records between their debut “Subject To Change” and sophomore album “Ghost In The Machine” were Cleveland Ohio Nu-Metal act Sw1tched. They rose to prominence during a spell that saw them play Warped Tour in 2001 and Ozzfest in 2002 before a wealth of line up changes
