The striking Arik Roper-penned artwork adorning the cover of the latest opus from Virginia’s Windhand, Grief’s Infernal Flower, makes for an interesting dichotomy between the overly vegetated cemetery it depicts and the gloomy sounds contained within the album itself. Oddly enough, however, the bright hues of blue and purple give it a darkly…
Recently a certain fact has become harder and harder to escape. It seems as if almost every piece of extreme music, or just any music in general, that you listen to has at least a dash of post-punk, or, now more notably, one of its most distinct sub-genres — shoegaze.…
Metalcore has become such a broad statement in music over the years, and people either love it or hate it. Personally, 90’s and early 2000’s metalcore is better because there are bands like Converge, Misery Signals, On Broken Wings, Poison The Well, etc. that come from that era. Lately, we’ve…
