Editor’s Note: I’m glad to welcome longtime reader Remi VL as a regular guest contributor to our Release Day Roundup posts! He submitted several of the albums listed below. Join his Facebook group for more recommendations. -Scott Murphy Each month, we always seem to come to the same conclusion when it comes to…
Welcome to Connecting the Dots, the column where we give a brief rundown on a central band along with a host of other projects their members, both past and present, have been involved in. Today we’ll be focusing on progressive sludge powerhouse Mastodon and the myriad of projects they’ve been involved with.
…shit! iTunes will probably get mad if I swear on the episode title, so there you go. Sometimes I wonder if anyone actually reads these descriptions. Well, in case you do, here are this week’s links for new music: Be’lakor, Hatebreed, Lacuna Coil, Whitechapel, Astronoid, Unlocking the Truth, Oracles, Fallujah. Also, Kylesa are done, and as you probably know, Prince passed away. Well, this week we talk about the external and internal perception of metal as intellectual/ignorant, then we talk about people who “leave” metal and feel that it’s for “angsty teens” and that we should “grow up”. Can you feel the salt already? Also, a brief tangent about where some MTV-metal artists are now.
Straight out of the gate with the terrible new Six Feet Under track! We’re doing it live! But wait! There’s more! More music from Schammasch, Haken, Plebeian Grandstand, Be’lakor, Lacuna Coil, Gojira, DESPISED ICON and Toyomu, who remade Kanye’s The Life of Pablo without hearing it! What else is there? Drama! Adult Swim are trolling Metalocalypse fans! Disillusion are back! Muse drones are crashing and burning! St. Vitus bar is being interviewed! Singer of The Story So Far kicks a fan off the stage! Sumerian and Basick are both 10 years old! We discuss the upcoming releases from Fallujah and First Fragment! There’s even more! BALLS DEEP: August Burns Red! Then we talk about albums that we were late to the party on, including WRVTH, Good Tiger, Opeth and Rivers of Nihil! Excitement! We have a pretty extensive “cool people time” section as well!
Lacuna Coil are continuing their world tour in support of their latest endeavor, Broken Crown Halo. They return to the US and Canada once again with a West Coast-focused set of dates. Along the way, Devil You Know, ex-Killswitch Engage vocalist Howard Jones’ new band, will open for the female-fronted…
Lacuna Coil need little introduction; the Italian act has been leading the goth metal scene for over ten years, with numerous releases to their name. Their latest album, Broken Crown Halo was released late last month to commercial success, despite playing it very safe. It’s also the last album to feature founding…
Alright, listen up. Apparently there’s some mass confusion about acoustic versions among artists, why you do them, and, more importantly, why you’re doing them badly. So badly, in fact, that you’re straight up ruining your own song, both in acoustic and in demeaning the original version by proxy. You need…
Another year has come and gone. Music was had and enjoyed by all. Some of it ruled. Some of it sucked. Some of it was okay. What follows is the opinion of one writer fortunate enough to broadcast his opinions on a site that cares about it. So here you…
Music cruises seem to be the big thing coming up in the metal festival world. I’ve even been super excited about Barge To Hell this year, which includes bands such as At The Gates, Soilwork, and Enslaved. I’ll be all up on that this December. However, if you can’t make…
Lacuna Coil Dark Adrenaline 01. Trip the Darkness 02. Against You 03. Kill the Light 04. Give Me Something More 05. Upsidedown 06. End of Time 07. I Don’t Believe in Tomorrow 08. Intoxicated 09. The Army Inside 10. Losing My Religion (R.E.M. Cover) 11. Fire 12. My Spirit [01/24/12]…
