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 [...]

Thursday, December 8, 2005

Scary Kids Scaring Kids - The City Sleeps in Flames (2005)

Just another brick in the wall

The City Sleeps in Flames
The Only Medicine
The World As We Know It
What’s Said Is Done
Just A Taste
My Darkest Hour
Drowning You in Fear
The Bright Side of Suffering
Empty Glasses
Faith in the Knife
A Breath of Sunshine

Quite like many prospective fans of this disc, [...]

Thursday, November 17, 2005

Bullet for My Valentine - The Poison (2005)

The curse of the poison of the used bloody dead shadows in blackest night will engage the killswitch

Intro
Her Voice Resides
4 Words (To Choke Upon)
Tears Don’t Fall
Suffocating Under Words Of Sorrow (What Can I Do)
Hit The Floor
Al These Things I Hate (Revolve Around Me)
Room 409
Poison
10 Years Today
[...]

Tuesday, June 21, 2005

Underoath - They’re Only Chasing Safety (2004)

Dear fans of our early albums,

While it was fun composing funeral dirges for Satan, who really loves those chunky, out-of-nowhere 32nd note power chord riffs we like to think we made up, our contract expired and we have officially decided to write melodies.