Tag: Metalcore

The Dillinger Escape Plan – One Of Us Is The Killer Review
Originally written by Rae Amitay One Of Us Is The Killer is a commendable continuation of the experimentation from Irony is a Dead Scene turned into a full-length, an improvement upon Option Paralysis, and rife …
By Old Guard on May 16, 2013

Converge – All We Love We Leave Behind Review
One of the drawbacks of being a venerated institution in extreme music is that you can never just quite write a damn album and leave it at that, y’know? Find some riffs hanging around, kick …
By Dan Obstkrieg on November 5, 2012

Between The Buried And Me – The Parallax II: Future Sequence Review
We all have certain bands that we enjoy, sometimes even love, with certain conditions. I have long been like this with Between the Buried and Me, understanding their shortcomings but enjoying them because of the …
By Zach Duvall on October 22, 2012

Trivium – In Waves Review
originally written by Jim Brandon As much disdain as he might bring upon himself from the metal elite, and for all the hype which has always overshadowed his finished musical endeavors, Matt Heafy is not …
By Old Guard on August 31, 2011

Between The Buried and Me – The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues Review
Instead of rehashing the history of Between the Buried and Me for the 10,294th time, I’ll begin this review with a simple explanation of my particular views on the band, so that those wishing to argue …
By Zach Duvall on June 1, 2011

Becoming The Archetype – Celestial Completion Review
Originally written by Erik Thomas If you were to put me on the spot and tell me to name one single Christian metal band that most typically angry non-Christian metalheads would tolerate, it would have …
By Old Guard on May 4, 2011

An Interview With Massive Slavery
Originally written by Sasha Horn. “No slouches.” Straight from the keystrokes of fellow staffer, Erik Thomas, when he not so long ago took on the task of reviewing Massive Slavery’s latest offering, Global Enslavement. This, above all …
By Old Guard on February 1, 2011

Waking The Cadaver – Beyond Cops. Beyond God Review
originally written by Chris McDonald Waking The Cadaver made quite an entrance with their infamous 2007 debut, Perverse Recollections of a Necromangler, a standard modern-day deathcore album rife with tongue-in-cheek brutality but sorely lacking in …
By Old Guard on September 7, 2010