Album Reviews
Spotlights: Love & Decay – REVIEW
Do you remember as a teenager, sitting in your room with a black light on, lava lamp is bubbling in the background and great tunes injecting your brain with sounds that ultimately shaped who you […]
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Brutal News
Big Business – Live at The Echo – April 12, 2019
What to do on a musty Friday night in Echo Park? You could get some Thai food, have a gourmet burger… or how about go and see a legendary sludge rock band that has close […]
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Big Business – “The Beast You Are” – REVIEW
Big Business have been… well…. big business for a quite a while now. Formed in Seattle 15 years ago, they made some waves with their first release “Head for the Shallow” back in 2005 and […]
Brutal News
Swanfest – Grove of Anaheim March – 30th 2019
Swanfest 2019 is a festival put together by the band Dance Gavin Dance’s label Rise Records. It included a lot of great heavy bands this year. The full line up being: Dance Gavin Dance, Periphery, […]
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L.A. Guns – The Devil You Know – Review
L.A. GUNS are have been active as a professional rock band for 30 years. Since their self-titled debut in 1988 to their widely praised 2017 comeback album “The Missing Peace“, L.A. GUNS, led by Tracii […]
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Devin Townsend – Empath (Review)
My knowledge of the man Devin Townsend begins with his days fronting the brutally heavy Strapping Young Lad. If you’ve never heard songs like this one – or this one… and you like metal – […]
Brutal News
August Burns Red 2/10/19 @ The Depot SLC, Utah
You could not only hear and feel the music, it was like being infused into part of the songs. […]
Album Reviews
Badflower: Ok, I’m Sick
If you’re already a fan of breakout artists, Badflower, then you’ve probably been white-knuckling it for their full length debut. Ok, I’m Sick drops February 22nd and I put my pre-order in on day one. […]
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Striker: Play To Win
Play To Win is a resounding metal horns up winner and a must-listen-to. […]
Album Reviews
Bad Religion – Christmas Songs
Ever heard Bad Religion‘s Christmas album? Why does a band that openly rejects religion have a Christmas album you ask? Well according to LA Weekly: While band co-founder and guitarist Brett Gurewitz grew up in […]