The Prodigy – World’s on Fire
A concert film with amazing sound and visuals plus a mini tour documentary and audio CD of the same show make this too good of a package for any Prodigy fan to pass up. Rating: The Prodigy – World’s on Fire DVD/CD Cooking Vinyl The Prodigy are one of the longest running and most successful [...]
Legendary Pink Dots – Seconds Late for the Brighton Line
A return to form for this band as they celebrate their third decade as a band and their best album in 15 years. Worth giving them a second chance if you grew tired of the last decade’s worth of output. Rating: Legendary Pink Dots – Seconds Late for the Brighton Line ROIR The Legendary Pink [...]
The Atlas Moth – The One Amongst the Weed Fields
Chicago’s best kept secret take three classic rock songs and one newer song and make them their own in a very satisfying and superior way. Rating: The Atlas Moth – The One Amongst the Weed Fields – Digital EP Candlelight Records The Atlas Moth is one of the heaviest bands Chicago has ever produced. They [...]
The Acacia Strain – Wormwood
Punishing metalcore with super heavy down-tuned guitars. A non-stop crushing attack on the senses. Rating: The Acacia Strain – Wormwood Prosthetic Records MA natives, The Acacia Strain return with their fifth full-length album as they are heading into the end of their first decade as a band. The band has gone through a few lineup [...]
The Morlocks – Play Chess
A collection of garage’d-out cover songs of old Chess Records songs that take the old and punch it up with a different take on the songs. This is how cover songs should be done! Rating: The Morlocks – Play Chess popantipop The Morlocks are a garage rock band from Los Angeles that has been around [...]
Mad Sin – Burn and Rise
Mad Sin – Burn and Rise People Like You Records Mad Sin has been around since 1987 but somehow despite the fact they released ten studio album prior to this one, this is the first I’ve heard of them. The band is a German psychobilly band who apparently were pretty well-known not only for their [...]
Gifts from Enola – From Fathoms
Gifts From Enola – From Fathoms The Mylene Sheath When The Mylene Sheath released a record last year from Gifts From Enola, I was duly impressed and looked forward to more from the band. I got my wish in the form of a brand new full-length album titled From Fathoms. For their second full-length, Gifts [...]
Constants – The Foundation, The Machine, The Ascension
Constants – The Foundation, The Machine, The Ascension LP The Mylene Sheath For a label that at the beginning was only putting out records by instrumental post-rock bands, they sure have expanded quickly and in a big way to include bands with actual vocals and much like their taste in instrumental bands, The Mylene Sheath’s [...]
Eksi Ekso – I Am Your Bastard Wings
Eksi Ekso – I Am Your Bastard Wings LP The Mylene Sheath Eksi Ekso is a band made up of members from The Burning Paris and On Fire which happen to be two bands I have never heard of before. Since I’m not at all familiar with those bands I didnt’ know what to expect [...]
Farflung – A Wound in Eternity
Farflung – A Wound in Eternity CD Meteor City Though they’ve been around for around 14 years now and have a few albums under their belts, this CD is the first time I’ve heard Farflung, or even heard of them for that matter. Even with having a couple releases on the defunct Flipside Records they [...]
Ohgr – Devils In My Details
Ohgr – Devils In My Details CD SPV Records Skinny Puppy has been my favorite band on Earth for the past 20 years. I can’t get enough of them and to me there will never be a better band ever in my lifetime. On top of being in the greatest band to walk the globe, [...]
The Wacky Hi-Jinks of… Adrenalin O.D. CD
Adrenalin O.D. – The Wacky Hi-Jinks of… Adrenalin O.D. 2xCD Chunksaah Records My initiation to Adrenalin O.D. (or AOD for short) came at the hands of a pair of compilations: Flipside Vinyl Fanzine Volume One (where their cover of the Brady Bunch theme cracked me up and was awesome) and We Got Power (where their [...]
