Friday, September 19, 2008
Eyes Set to Kill - Reach (2008)
Metalcore / Pop / Rock
Eyes Set to Kill’s thick-headed riffs, breathy, dramatic vocals, and gothy lyricism are nothing new to anyone who’s heard a Paramore song. “Listen to all of this glass shatter/ It pierced my ears and made them bleed.”
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Alesana - Where Myth Fades to Legend (2008)
This Is Usually The Part Where People Whine
- This Is Usually The Part Where People Scream
- Goodbye, Goodnight, For Good
- Seduction
- A Most Profound Quiet
- Red And Dying Evening
- Better Luck Next Time, Prince Charming
- The Uninvited Thirteenth
- Sweetheart, You Are Sadly Mistaken
- And They Call This Tragedy
- All Night Dance Parties In The Underground Palace
- Endings Without Stories
- As You Wish
- Obsessions Is Such An Ugly Word
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Dance Gavin Dance - Dance Gavin Dance (2008)
That’s no moon…
Alex English
Buffalo!
Me and Zoloft Get Along Fine
The Robot With Human Hair Pt. 3
Hot Water On Wool
Hot Water On Wool (Reprise)
Uneasy Hearts Weigh The Most (feat. Nic Newsham)
Caviar (feat. Chino Moreno)
Rock Solid (feat. Matt Geise)
Burning Down the Nicotine Armoire Pt. 2
Reprogramming Mental Preprogramming
Skyhook
People You Know
They say never judge a book (or by extension, an [...]
Monday, August 27, 2007
Emanuel - Black Earth Tiger (2007)
Fang Shui
Whiteflag (intro)
Cottonmouth
Anathamatics
My Antapex
Scenotaph
Phobos
Abandonment Star
Let Them Die
Year of the Pig
Forever
Whiteflag (Reprise)
With a title variously described as sounding like a Mortal Kombat finishing move, a pose Jet Li might strike, or a post-apocalyptic robot terminator shaped like a feral cat, the press kit for “Black Earth Tiger” stresses one thing above all others: this ain’t your [...]
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
[...]
Thursday, November 2, 2006
Rise Against - The Sufferer and the Witness (2006)
Siren song of the counter-counterculture.
Chamber The Cartridge
Injection
Ready To Fall
Bricks
Under The Knife
Prayer of the Refugee
Drones
The Approaching Curve
Worth Dying For
Behind Closed Doors
Roadside
The Good Left Undone
Survive
Up on top, it’s nothing but gold teeth, big cars and big butts; trolling in the underground, you meet a [...]
Friday, October 6, 2006
Brazil - The Philosophy of Velocity (2006)
Re-Loused in the Comatorium
On Safe-Cracking And Rubella
Crime (And The Antique Solution)
You Never Know
The Vapours
Cameo
Candles (Cast Long Shadows)
Au Revoir, Mr. Mercury
Captain Mainwaring
A Year In Heaven
The Remarkable Cholmondley Chute System
Breathe
Strange Days
Jonathon Newby must have a set of pitch pipes tuned to Cedric Bixler’s vocal cords, [...]
Tuesday, September 5, 2006
Alesana - On Frail Wings of Vanity and Wax (2006)
Next Thursday
Icarus
Ambrosia
Pathetic, Ordinary
Alchemy Sounded Good at the Time
Daggers Speak Louder Than Words
Last Three Letters
Apology
Tilting the Hourglass
This Conversation Is Over
Congradulations, I Hate You
Third Temptation of Paris
Siren’s Soliloquy
Nero’s Decay
Alesana (with an extra ‘S,’ no lesss) are featured over at Smartpunk.com as of this writing. [...]
Friday, March 17, 2006
Boys Night Out - Trainwreck (2005)
More of a Planecrash
Introducing
Dreaming
Waking
Sentencing
Medicating
Purging
Relapsing
Recovering
Composing
Disintegrating
Healing
Dying
Sugar, we’re goin’ down. “Trainwreck” is a concept album that plays more like a plane crash than its title would suggest, which is to say it takes a spectacular nosedive in quality after the first couple high-flying tracks.
An idea for [...]
Monday, December 12, 2005
Neon Blonde - Chandeliers in the Savannah (2005)
That prickly sensation you get from being hit in the face with a black cactus
Black Cactus Killers
Crystal Beaches Never Turned Me On
Chandeliers & Vines
Princess Skullface Sings
New Detroit
Headlines
Love Hounds
Dead Mellotron
Cherries In Slow Motion
The Future Is A Mesh Stallion
Wings Made Out Of Noise
“Chandeliers in the Savannah” is [...]
