Tag: Devin Townsend
Andrew Edmunds’ Best Of 2016 – Let’s Put This Year Behind Us
Christ, what a terrible terrible terrible year. I’m glad this one’s behind us. Between the deaths of so many greats and the interminable American presidential election, 2016 was an insufferably brutal year. (Let’s not speak …
Zach Duvall’s Best Of 2016: Foundations Of Immortality
Another year, another year-end roundup blah blah blah… NO! Not going to treat this like any other year. Not at all. Because for a multitude of reasons, 2016 was far from ordinary, or even within …
Dave Pirtle’s Best of 2014 – This Blitz Goes to 21
I didn’t mean to do a blitz this year. I really didn’t. In case you missed the story last year, that troublesome “personal life” thing prevented me from keeping up with all the great stuff …
Your Independence Day Mixtape – Because AMERICA
Originally written by Jordan Campbell Happy Independence Day, Planet Earth. Today, the fifty United States of America (and probably Guam and Puerto Rico or whatever) will celebrate our liberation from taxation without representation (hmm…) by …
Things That Go Blargh In The Night – Songs That Scare Our Scribes
Our friends, coworkers, and subway-squinters-at-our-patches all say the same thing: “Metal? You like scary music.” Like every cut pumping through our cans is nothing but a game of Candyman. To them, we’re frittering away our …
Six Thoughts: Devin Townsend – The Retinal Circus
Devin Townsend is a busy, busy man. Under the moniker of the Devin Townsend Project, he has released five studio albums in the last four years, most of which received intense critical and fan acclaim. …
Zach Duvall’s Top 20 Of 2012
Last year there figured to be about twelve or thirteen albums I was trying to shove into my top ten. This year there are easily eight or nine trying to wiggle their way into the …
90s Essentials – Volume Six
Still going, friends. There’s no end in sight yet for this relentless onslaught of visceral volumes, and number six is a doozy. From the looks of those top three, you’d expect this to be the …