Monday, November 20, 2006
Fear Before the March of Flames - The Always Open Mouth (2006)
Fishing for hooks for always open ears
Absolute Future
Drowning The Old Hag
Mouth
Taking Cassandra to the End of the World Party
Ten Seconds In Los Angeles
The Waiting Makes Me Curious
High As A Horse
Dog Sized Bird
Complete and Utter Confusion…
…As a Result of Signals Being Crossed
My (Fucking) Deer Hunter
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Thursday, November 16, 2006
The Gathering - Black Light District (2002)
Anneke, you don’t have to put on the black light
Black Light District
Debris
Broken Glass
An out-of-tune piano can easily concoct dissonant sounds that many might call “haunting.” Doing it with a well-tuned one, well, that requires a bit more skill– and fans of the beautiful timbre of a well-made, well-tuned acoustic piano cannot afford to miss this [...]
Sunday, May 14, 2006
Lacuna Coil - Karmacode (2006)
Italians do it better
Fragile
To The Edge
Our Truth
Within Me
Devoted
You Create
What I See
Fragments Of Faith
Closer
In Visible Light
The Game
Without Fear
Enjoy The Silence
It makes a weird kind of sense that an Italian band can sound cooler and more interesting in trying to sound “modern” than can [...]
Wednesday, May 10, 2006
Fair to Midland - inter.funda.stifle (2004)
Dreams splendidly weaved from an atom bomb
Preambles In 3rd Person
Dance Of The Manatee
Vice/Versa
Cipieron
A Seafarer’s Knot
Orphan Anthem ‘86
Inter.mission
Granny Niblo
The Walls Of Jericho
Abigail
Timbuktu
Kyla Cries Cologne
Upgrade^Brigade
When The Bough Breaks
Quince
Until recently, Fair to Midland was an unsigned anomaly from Dallas, TX, waiting for their [...]
Friday, March 3, 2006
Blackfield - Blackfield (2005)
Warm and fuzzy bleak-pop
Open Mind
Blackfield
Glow
Scars
Lullaby
Pain
Summer
Cloudy Now
The Hole In Me
Hello
Perfect World
Where Is My Love?
Cloudy Now
Blackfield is a progressive rock/pop band whose blend of minor key melancholia and wall-of-sound euphoria works best as the soundtrack to late night lounging and contemplation. Maybe under blacklight.
With a [...]
Thursday, February 23, 2006
Deftones - Deftones (2003)
When they’re ripe…
Hexagram
Needles and Pins
Minerva
Good Morning Beautiful
Deathblow
When Girls Telephone Boys
Battle-axe
Lucky You
Bloody Cape
Anniversary of an Uninteresting Event
Moana
“White Pony” should stand as one of the best recordings made at the onset of the 21st century. Combining heavy metal guitars and futuristic electronica touches with the alternately [...]
Tuesday, November 8, 2005
Coheed & Cambria - Good Apollo, I’m Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through The Eyes of Madness (2005)
Star Wars meets Harry Potter meets Rush meets The Used
Keeping The Blade
Always & Never
Welcome Home
Ten Speed (Of God’s Blood & Burial)
Crossing The Frame
Apollo I : The Writing Writer
Once Upon Your Dead Body
Wake Up
The Suffering
The Lying Lies & Dirty Secrets of Miss Erica Court
Mother May I
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Saturday, September 10, 2005
Catherine Wheel - Chrome (1993)
Underground (-water?) classic.
Kill Rhythm
I Confess
Crank
Broken Head
Pain
Strange Fruit
Chrome
The Nude
Ursa Major Space Station
Fripp
Half Life
Show Me Mary
“Chrome” was voted by at least one big name British rag as among the best guitar albums of all time. They’ve got it right. With a sound that’s equal parts bombast [...]
Thursday, September 1, 2005
As I Lay Dying - Shadows Are Security (2005)
Faulkner would be reduced to four letter words over this.
Meaning In Tragedy
Confined
Losing Sight
The Darkest Nights
Empty Hearts
Reflection
Repeating Yesterday
Through Struggle
The Truth Of My Perception
Control Is Dead
Morning Waits
Illusions
Take a listen to the sound samples and tell me any two of those sound at all different. It’s the same damn manic panic drum beat set against the same solid [...]
Sunday, August 7, 2005
Quicksand - Slip (1993)
Punk / Rock / Alt-Metal
Criminally unnoticed and sublimely loud, Quicksand’s Slip an underground landmark for anyone who’s ever enjoyed the clever side of the distorted electric guitar.
