Left Down Spine have signed with Metropolis Records and are back with their second album of digital hardcore. Those familiar with the band will notice that major changes have taken place since Fighting For Voltage was released in 2008. The band have dropped all of their metal influences and wall-of-sound production in favor of a fun mixture of punk, industrial and electronics. “X-Ray” is the first single from the album, Caution. Caution was released on the 26th of August.
Rabbit Junk have always been an eccentric band. They’ve been known to mix anything from industrial and black metal to hip hop and hardcore, and this song is no different. “What Doesn’t Kill You Will Make You a Killer” is the first single from the band’s upcoming album (currently untitled). It features the return of the more fun, tongue-in-cheek Rabbit Junk and also the return of Sum Grrl. The song itself is really two parts — the hip hop influenced beginning and the metalish second half. Oh, and the video is pretty cool too.
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Rabbit Junk – What Doesn’t Kill You Will Make You a Killer
Download this song (and another from the album) free here.
Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of August 23, 2011. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.
Active Child – You Are All I See (Vagrant Records)
Apathy – Honkey Kong (Dirty Version Record)
Zee Avi – Ghostbird (Universal Republic)
Balam Acab – Wander/Wonder (Tri Angle)
Black Tide – Post Mortem (Geffen Records)
Bunnydrums – PKD (Metropolis Records)
Circle Takes the Square – Rites of Initiation (Gatepost Recordings)
CSC Funk Band – Things Are Getting Too Casual (Fat Beats) CSS – La Liberacion {UK} (V2)
Gabe Dixon – One Spark (Fantasy)
Darondo – Listen To My Song: The Music City Sessions (Omnivore Recordings)
Downhere – On the Altar of Love (Centricity Records)
Edguy – Age Of The Joker {EU} (Nuclear Blast)
The Game – The R.E.D. Album (Interscope)
Ganglians – Still Living (Lefse)
Ghost Brigade – Until Fear No Longer Defines Us (Season of Mist) Global Noize – Prayer for the Planet (Lightyear) Trevor Hall – Everything Everytime Everywhere (Vanguard Records) Hard-Fi – Killer Sounds(Warner Bros UK) — Davey Boy
Hawthorne Heights – Hate (Cardboard Empire)
Heart – Greatest Hits (Audio Fidelity)
Heart-Set Self Destruct – Of Nightmares [EP] (Sound Mine) ICS Vortex – Storm Seeker (Century Media)
Jorn – Live in Black (Frontiers Records)
Kourosh – Back from the Brink (Now Again)
Krum Bums – Cut The Noose (Century Media Records) Left Spine Down –…
Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of August 16, 2011. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.
All Pigs Must Die – God Is War (Southern Lord)
Awol One & Nathaniel Motte – Child Star (Fake Four Inc.)
Belle – Never Too Late (Ingenious Records) Blue October – Any Man in America (RED GENERAL CATALOG)
The Bottle Rockets – Not So Loud: An Acoustic Evening (Bloodshot Records)
Braid – Closer To Closed (Polyvinyl Records)
Breaking Benjamin – Shallow Bay: The Best of Breaking Benjamin (Hollywood Records)
Jeff Bridges – Jeff Bridges (Blue Note)
Chimaira – The Age of Hell (Entertainment One Music)
Cianide – Gods of Death (Hells Headbangers)
Guy Clark – Songs & Stories (Dualtone Music Group)
Ghost Brigade – Until Fear No Longer Defines Us {EU} (Season of Mist)
Gotye – Making Mirrors (Eleven)
The Cool Kids – When Fish Ride Bicycles (C.A.K.E./Green Label Sound)
Denial Fiend – Horror Holocaust (IBEX MOON RECORDS)
Kosha Dillz – Gina and The Garage Sale (Team Kosha)
The Duke & The King – The Duke & The King (Silva America)
Friday – It’s Finally Friday (Grind Season Ent.)
Gold Leaves – The Ornament (HARDLY ART)
Hercules and Love Affair – Blue Songs (Moshi Moshi)
Hexentanz – Nekrocrafte (Agonia Records)
Jewel – The Merry Goes ‘Round (Fisher-Price)
Mac Dre – Da Treasure (Thizz Nation)
Mister Heavenly – Out Of Love (Sub Pop)
Natalia Kills – Perfectionist (Interscope…
The recent news that Century Media Records had removed its entire catalog from Spotify ended up leading to another discussion about file sharing and everything that goes along with it. This blog post is not that serious. I’ve just decided to dredge up some old videos that were created during the intial Napster controversy.
Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of August 09, 2011. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.
Afrobeta – Under The Streets (DoIT Music Group)
Alev – We Live In Paradise (Eclipse Recordings)
Army Navy – The Last Place (The Fever Zone)
Barenaked Ladies – Snacktime (Raisin Records)
The Birthday Massacre – Imaginary Monsters (Metropolis Records)
Luke Bryan – Tailgates & Tanlines (Capitol)
Dream On Dreamer – Heartbound (Rise Records)
Drive A – The World In Shambles (Dead Conflict Record)
Eyes Set to Kill – White Lotus [EP] (Ingrooves)
Fleshgod Apocalypse – Agony (Nuclear Blast)
God Module – Rituals (Metropolis Records)
Greeley Estates – The Death of Greeley Estates (TRAGIC HERO RECORDS)
Gucci Mane & Waka Flocka Flame – Ferrari Boyz (Warner Bros.) Hassaan Mackey & Apollo Brown – Daily Bread (Mello Music Group)
Hell Or Highwater – Begin Again (Hell Or Highwater) Ace Hood – Blood, Sweat & Tears (Def Jam)
The Horrors – Skying (XL Recordings)
The Irrepressibles – Mirror Mirror (101 DISTRIBUTION)
Jay-Z & Kanye West – Watch The Throne (Def Jam)
Karmakanic – In a Perfect World (Inside Out)
The Motels – Apocalypso (Omnivore Recordings)
My Amends – Acceptions (Ingenious Records) NewBreed – NewBreed (Metal Mind Productions)
Pepper Rabbit – Red Velvet Snow Ball (Kanine Records)
Royce da 5’9” – Success Is Certain (Gracie)
Sainthood Reps – Monoculture (Tooth & Nail Records)
Scattered Trees – Sympathy (Musebox) …
Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of August 02, 2011. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.
Antigone Rising – 23 Red (101 DISTRIBUTION)
Archers of Loaf – Icky Mettle (Merge Records)
Trace Atkins – Proud To Be Here (Show Dog Nashville)
Battlecross – Pursuit of Honor (Metal Blade)
Boston Spaceships – Let it Beard (Guided By Voices)
Richard Buckner – Our Blood (Merge Records)
Bury Your Dead – Mosh N’ Roll (MEDIASKARE)
Caina – Hands That Pluck (Profound Lore)
Greyson Chance – Hold On ‘Til the Night (Geffen Records)
Dead and Divine – Antimacy (Wolf At Your Door Records)
Denial Fiend – Horror Holocaust (Ibex Moon)
Direct Hit – Domesplitter (Kind of Like Records)
Dir en Grey – Dum Spiro Spero (The End)
Excruciator – The Devouring (Heavy Artillery)
Flourishing – The Sum Of All Fossils (The Path Less Traveled) Fountains Of Wayne – Sky Full Of Holes(Yep Roc Records) — Rudy Klapper
Fruit Bats – Tripper (Sub Pop)
Harvest – Years of Defiance. Years of Disgust. (Good Fight)
John Hiatt – Dirty Jeans & Mudslide Hymns (New West Records)
Hot Water Music – The Fire, The Steel, The Tread / Adds Up To Nothing (Self-released)
It Prevails – Stroma (MEDIASKARE)
Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter – Marble Son (Thirty Tigers)
Keb Mo – The Reflection (Yolabelle International)
Machine Drum – Room(s) (101 DISTRIBUTION)
Malefice – Awaken the…
Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of July 26, 2011. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.
All Shall Perish – This Is Where It Ends (Nuclear Blast)
America – Back Pages (eOne Music Group)
Bodeans – Indigo Dreams (Oarfin Records) Bomb the Music Industry – Vacation(Ernest Jenning)— John Hanson
Vanessa Carlton – Rabbits on the Run (Razor & Tie)
Eric Church – Chief (EMI Records Nashville)
City Lights – In It to Win It (inVogue Records)
Communic – The Bottom Deep (Nuclear Blast)
Dawkins & Dawkins – From Now On (Light Records)
Falling In Reverse – The Drug In Me Is You (Epitaph)
Heartsounds – Drifter (Epitaph)
Iwrestledabearonce – Ruining It For Everybody (Century Media)
Jasta – Jasta (Entertainment One)
Karmakanic – In a Perfect World (Inside Out U.S.)
Little Dragon – Ritual Union (Peacefrog) Machinedrum – Room(s)(Planet Mu) The Milk Carton Kids – Prologue(Milk Carton Records) Pimps of Joytime – Janxta Funk (Wonderwheel)
Release The Sunbird – Come Back to Us (Republic)
Rival Sons – Pressure & Time (Earache Records)
Jay Rock – Follow Me Home (Strange Music)
Kelly Rowland – Here I Am (Motown)
Roxette – Greatest Hits (EMI)
Joss Stone – LP1 (Stone’d Records/Surfdog)
Mick Taylor – Mick Taylor (Iconoclassic)
Tidelands – If… (Redgummy Records) Trophy Scars – Never Born Never Dead(The Same Ghost Collective)…
Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of July 19, 2011. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.
311 – Universal Pulse (ATO Records) 3 Doors Down – Time Of My Life(Republic)
40 Watt Sun – The Inside Room (Metal Blade Records)
Battlefield Band – Line-Up (Temple Records)
Big Talk – Big Talk (Epitaph)
Brilliant Colors – Again And Again (Slumberland Records)
Burlap To Cashmere – Burlap To Cashmere (Red Int/Red Ink)
Chelsea Grin – My Damnation (Razor & Tie)
Cold – Superfiction (Eleven Seven Music) The Dangerous Summer – War Paint(Hopeless Records) — Davey Boy
Demonical – Death Infernal (Metal Blade Records)
Disma – Towards the Megalith (Profound Lore)
DJ Khaled – We the Best Forever (Cash Money)
Down to the Bone – Main Ingredients (TRIPPIN & RHYTHM)
Dying Fetus – History Repeats (Relapse Records)
Angela Easterling – Beguiler (De L’Est)
Fink – Perfect Darkness (Ninja Tune)
Darren Hanlon – I Will Love You At All (Yep Roc Records) Iselia – Life From Dead Limbs(Self Released) — Adam Thomas
Stacey Kent – Hushabye Mountain (Candid)
Kottonmouth Kings – Sunshine Sessions (Suburban Noize)
Amy Lavere – Stranger Me (Archer Records)
The Living End – The Ending Is Just The Beginning Repeating (Dew Process)
Theophilus London – Timez Are Weird These Days (Reprise)
George Lynch – Kill All Control (Rocket Science)
Mac Dre – Da Treasure (Thizz…
A few years ago, long time Fates Warning fans went crazy when they found out that Jim Matheos and ex-vocalist John Arch were teaming up for some new music. The end result was the underwhelming A Twist of Fate. Don’t get me wrong, the songs were awesome but there were only two of them. Listening to that album was like watching the gif where the hot girl is opening her shirt but just before it gets to the good stuff the gif starts over. Basically, A Twist of Fate was good enough to be mildly satisfying, but it was mostly just frustrating because it wasn’t enough. That is where Sympathetic Resonancecomes in. Not only is it an actual full album by the John Arch/Jim Matheos duo, but it also features the return of longtime Fates Warning guitarist Frank Aresti — rounded out by Joey Vera (Armored Saint, Anthrax) on bass and Bobby Jarzombek (Halford, Sebastian Bach) on drums. It’s like someone found the full version of that teasing little gif and it turns out that her mom and sister are in it too… it just doesn’t get much better 😉
The first song released from Sympathetic Resonance is titled “Stained Glass Sky”, and it is actually just a five minute snippet of the entire fourteen-minute track. Regardless, the song is more than enough to prove to longtime fans that the album is going to kill. It…
Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of July 12, 2011. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.
Accessory – Underbeat (Metropolis Records)
Alkaline Trio – Damnesia (Epitaph)
Miles Bonny – Lumberjack Soul (Melting Pot Music)
Breathe Carolina – Hell Is What You Make It (Fearless Records) Colbie Caillat – All Of You(Universal)
Cali Swag District – The Kickback (RED GENERAL CATALOG)
Cannabis Corpse – Beneath Grow Lights Thou Shall Rise (Tank Crimes)
Kasey Chambers – Little Birds (Sugarhill)
The Cool Kids – When Fish Ride Bicycles (Green Label)
Dance Or Die – Nostrodamnation (Metropolis Records)
Decapitated – Carnival Is Forever (Nuclear Blast)
Earth Crisis – Neutralize The Threat (Century Media) Fair to Midland – Arrows & Anchors(Entertainment One Music) — John A. Hanson Eleanor Friedberger – Last Summer(Merge Records)— Rudy Klapper
Get Scared – Best Kind of Mess (Motown) Darren Hanlon – I Will Love You At All(Yep Roc Records)— Dave Donnelly
The Horrors – Skying {UK} (XL Recordings)
Iced Earth – Festivals Of The Wicked [CD/DVD] (Century Media)
Imperative Reaction – Surface (Metropolis Records) Incubus – If Not Now, When?(Epic)— Nick Butler
Chris Isaak – Best of… (Mailboat Records)
Nikki Jean – Pennies in a Jar (S-Curve Records)
Juno Reactor – Inside The Reactor (Metropolis Records)
Kalup And Franco…
Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of June 28, 2011. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.
13 & God – Own Your G (Anticon) Beyonce – 4(Sony Music Distribution)
Big Sean – Finally Famous (Def Jam)
Evan Brewer – Alone (Sumerian Records)
Bunnydrums – Holy Moly (Metropolis Records)
Burn Halo – Up From the Ashes (Rawkhead Rekords)
David Cook – This Loud Morning (RCA)
Curren$y – Weekend at Burnies (Warner Bros.)
Billy Ray Cyrus – I’m American (Walt Disney Records)
Marianne Faithfull – Horses And High Heels (Naive)
Handsome Furs – Sound Kapital (Sub Pop)
Jolie Holland – Pint of Blood (Anti-)
Eilen Jewell – Queen of the Minor Key (Signature Records)
Junior Battles – Idle Ages (Paper and Plastick)
Alicia Keys – Songs in A Minor – 10th Anniversary Edition (Sony Legacy)
Left Banke – The Left Banke Too (Sundazed Music)
Limp Bizkit – Gold Cobra (Interscope Records)
Lock Up – Necropolis Transparent {EU} (Nuclear Blast)
Dolly Parton – Better Day (Dolly Records)
Pete Rock & Smif-N-Wessun – Monumental (Duck Down Records) Queensryche – Dedicated to Chaos(Roadrunner Records) — Trey Spencer
Redlight King – Something for the Pain (Hollywood Records)
Riverside – Memories in My Head [EP] (Laser’s Edge) Samiyam – Sam Baker’s Album(Brainfeeder) Selena Gomez And The Scene – When The Sun Goes Down (Hollywood)
Set Your Goals – Burning at Both…
Nuclear Blast records is making the first single from the upcoming Anthrax album available for free download. The song is called “Fight’em ’til You Can’t” and is taken from Worship Music which will be released on September 13th through Nuclear Blast Records. The song itself is pretty much classic Anthrax with just a hint of their 2003 release, We’ve Come For You All. It’s got the classic hardcore-tinged thrash riffs, Joey’s soaring vocals, a strong chorus and a fuckin’ driving beat. What more needs to be said? If the entire album is like this then it’s going to kill.
We recieved a link to the webstream of the new Fair to Midland last night, and I finally got around to listening to it for the first time. Since things are slow right now I figured that I would give my initial impressions based on a single listen. For those that are into pain, there is also a track-by-track that was written in real time as I was listening to the album. Below that is the official video for “Musical Chairs.”
My overall impression of this album is that it is not nearly as instant as Fables From a Mayfly. The choruses and vocal melodies are good, but they aren’t as simple and catchy as they previously were. This shouldn’t be taken as a bad thing, though, because the album is definitely going to be one that grows on people. One negative that I can point out is that the vocalist was definitely much more restrained on this album. He never hits those high notes or odd melodies the way he did before. This kind of makes the first listen blend together a little bit because the vocals are all very similar for the most part. It’s also not nearly as heavy or chaotic as the song floating around Youtube would have you believe. Now that it’s established what is missing, we should get into what the album actually is. The music…
Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of June 21, 2011. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.
1,2,3 – New Heaven(frenchkiss) Dave Alvin – Eleven Eleven (Yep Roc Records)
Attack! Attack! – The Latest Fashion (Rock Ridge Music) August Burns Red – Leveler(Solid State Records) — Adam Thomas
The Black Dahlia Murder – Ritual (Metal Blade)
The Black Rabbits – Hypno Switch (Rock Ridge Music)
Blaq Poet – Blaq Poet Society (Brick Records) Bon Iver – Bon Iver(Jagjaguwar) — Cam
Cindy Bradley – Unscripted (TRIPPIN & RHYTHM)
Cassettes Won’t Listen – EVINSPACEY (Daylight Curfew)
Co$$ – Before I Awoke (Tres)
The Crimson Armada – Conviction (Red Int/Red Ink) Crossfade – We All Bleed(Eleven Seven Music)
Dayton Family – Charges of Indictment (Psychopathic)
The Devin Townsend Project – Deconstruction (Inside Out U.S.)
The Devin Townsend Project – Ghost (Inside Out U.S.)
Draconian – A Rose For The Apocalypse {EU} (Napalm Records)
Ellwood – Lost In Transition (Fat Wreck Chords)
Liam Finn – FOMO (Yep Roc Records)
Gomez – Whatevers on Your Mind (ATO RECORDS)
Grieves – Together/Apart (Rhymesayers) In Flames – Sounds Of A Playground Fading(Century Media) — Trey Spencer
I Set My Friends On Fire – Astral Rejection (Epitaph)
Jagged Edge – Remedy (Slip N Slide)
The Japanese Popstars – Controlling Your Allegiance (ASTRALWERKS) Jungle Rot – Kill on Command (Victory…
