God damnit I hate doing these pieces lately. Gone way too young is (unusually) former Mastodon guitarist and lovable oddball Brent Hinds. A huge band shaping my youth from their start with “Remission” in 2000, Mastodon was always a constant with me. And loved their sound change the […]
Yesterday August 16th 2025, Buffalo’s own Cannibal Corpse released their debut album in 1990 “Eaten Back To Life”. One of death metal’s most revered debuts is almost as old as me. Holy shit. Personally, the debut will always be one of my favorite CC albums. It’s not technical, […]
It’s been constantly recycled throughout the day today. It’s going to be tough to put into words or end up being word salad. My experience is similar to many. John Michael Osbourne gave us metalheads an identity and a sense of belonging. I truthfully never cared to fit […]
If you haven’t read my first part of this debacle, I was pretty honest and maybe slightly harsh. I still wished him well and hoped he recovers, so I guess it counts for something. Whether I come across honest or as an asshole that’s how I feel. The […]
I hope this becomes as civil as possible, and creates positive encouraging and educating discussion. To clarify my taste for the prog gatekeepers: I love classic, modern, instrumental, cinematic, extreme, forward thinking and any kind of experimental progressive music. Some might draw me in more than others, but […]
Tech death needs a solid facelift. I feel like I’ve been hearing the same pedal point riffs and orchestra samples for a decade. Obviously, there are big names in technical death metal that have gained popularity in the past few years, but will they really hold up to […]
At first I was going into this with a grimace on my face, ready to bitch about literally everything, but I’m actually pretty stoked with how full the shows calendar is right now. And it’s super cool to see new faces every time I venture out. And some […]
I tried remembering the first time I heard Coheed and Cambria, but it was so long ago that it’s been lost to memories accumulated since. I do remember getting In Keeping Secret of Silent Earth: III for Christmas the year it came out, along with I think Motion […]
One thing that’s really been rustling my jimmies (as our self proclaimed tech-death goddess Vick loves to say) is how lazy, ignorant and stupid people are when it comes to discovering new music…..and that also includes the older crowd. Now before we REALLY take off and spout off, […]
Wow! It’s been exactly a year since I started this website almost 300 articles in and it’s slowly (now a bit more rapidly) blossomed into a decently sized online source for underground and small label bands and artists! I started this adventure to help those different artists who […]