Tag: Metalcore
Diseased Reason – Recombinant Review
Originally written by Chris Redar Oh, hey, look! It’s Diseased Reason from Tucson, Arizona, and they’ve put out an album! Wonder what this sounds like? Let’s just pop it in the ol’ SD card storage here… Hang …
By Old Guard on June 18, 2014
Tiger Flowers – Dead Hymns Review
Originally written by Chris Redar Those familiar with the old Resound catalog or Century Media’s mail-order rag will remember a time before metalcore was a term. Instead, artists were described as “metallic hardcore.” That is, metal infused …
By Old Guard on April 22, 2014
DevilDriver – Winter Kills Review
I’m not quite sure what to make of Dez Fafara these days, but he certainly does appear to be comfortable in his own skin. Comfortable enough that, after nearly a decade of recording and seemingly …
By Dave Pirtle on August 30, 2013
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
