Album Reviews

A review on Berserker, the eleventh studio album from Amon Amarth.  Amon Amarth is a Swedish melodic death metal band from Tumba, formed in 1992. The band takes its name from the Sindarin name of Mount Doom, a volcano in J. R. R. Tolkien′s Middle-earth. Their lyrics mostly deal with Viking mythology and history, and so they have been linked with viking metal, although …

They often say that being a musician requires a certain level of emotional connection and that is fundamentally true–there are many great musicians and legends in the field because they were able of developing an emotional connection through their music and with their fans, which is something that Jay Elle …

TWITTER: https://twitter.com/drakejensen?lang=en Originally hailing from Nova Scotia and now based out of Ottawa, Canadian native Drake Jensen’s fifth studio release Sideshow’s first single “Talk Me Down” is the next logical step in a career path trending upward since his 2011 emergence on the scene. Indie country doesn’t necessarily mean unpolished or …

TWITTER: https://twitter.com/scarlettdeva Buried in an ocean of fuzz and feedback, a synthetic groove finds its way to the forefront of the master mix in “In da Couch,” the all-new single from Scarlett Deva out now everywhere that independent music is sold and streamed. Out of the shapeless white noise, we …

FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/eonsmiami/ The moan of the synthesizer that greets us in the introduction to “L E V I T A T E,” the new single from EONS, is rife with a melancholy that is inexpressible through linguistics alone. All at once, it emerges from the silence strong and unflinching, proceeding …

A playful string arrangement, peppered with the comforting sounds of a Latin horn melody, greets us as we enter “La Zenaida,” the opening track in Dracula’s new LP Dorys & Eli. The exotic vibrancy of the song carries right over into the blissfully affectionate “First Time Ever I Saw Your …

The Americana revival is in full swing in 2019, and Jeffrey Halford & the Healers are front and center in the movement with their new album West Towards South. Without borrowing too much from the past, the band brings a little bit of music history into focus in “A Town Called …

New York-based, Minneapolis-born singer, songwriter, and producer Caleb Hawley released his fifth full length album album titled Sad People on Friday. As described by Hawley himself, “It’s an album that depressed people can dance to.” His soul wrenching lyrics are deceivingly well paired with groovy bass lines, pop beats and …

Jason Young’s gig as drumming for popular Los Angeles based band The Ruse thankfully doesn’t preclude him from branching out with his Heartour project. An ongoing musical concern for the last sixteen years, Young’s exploration of sound over the course of nearly two decades has led to many entertaining and …

In a surreal, dreamlike setting, we enter a barren room filled with four large mattresses covered in white sheets. Dressed in equally glaring attire, TC Superstar and a troupe of dancers come into focus. The sound of a bloated synthesizer crushes the silence in the background, but long before we’ve …

Project Grand Slam is back in the spotlight with a brand new collection of sonic supernaturalism in PGS 7, an album that has been highly anticipated by fans and critics in the wake of the group’s powerful live record Greetings from Serbia. In many ways, PGS 7 is Project Grand …

A review on High Crimes, the second studio album from supergroup The Damned Things. The Damned Things are an American rock supergroup consisting of Joe Trohman and Andy Hurley of Fall Out Boy, Scott Ian of Anthrax, Keith Buckley of Every Time I Die, and Dan Andriano of Alkaline Trio. The band’s name is inspired by the lyrics in Ram Jam‘s 1977 version of “Black Betty“. #TheDamnedThings #HighCrimes #FallOutBoy #Anthrax #EveryTimeIDie #AlkalineTrio