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BECOMING THE ARCHETYPE – CELESTIAL COMPLETION (Album Review)

Earthquakes. Tsunamis. Nuclear meltdowns. If the Mayans were correct in ending their calendar with the presumption that the world will end in 2012, then...

SOUNDGARDEN – LIVE ON I-5 (Album Review)

When the Seattle titans from SOUNDGARDEN reunited in 2010 for a string of live dates that included a stop at Lollapalooza in Chicago, many...

BILLY JOEL – LIVE AT SHEA STADIUM (CD/DVD Review)

BILLY JOEL is a true American badass. With four decades of musical output behind him, and a series of legendary personal exploits, there's little to...

AARON LEWIS – TOWN LINE (EP Review)

When I first heard that STAIND frontman AARON LEWIS was prepping a country record, my first response was to question whether it was genuine, or if...

KIDS OF 88 – JUST A LITTLE BIT (EP Review)

Having already been in release in their native New Zealand for quite some time, it's a wonder that KIDS OF 88's JUST A LITTLE...

UNWRITTEN LAW – SWAN (Track-by-track Advance Album Review)

If you need solid proof that the great pop-punk comeback of 2011 is in-progress, look no further than UNWRITTEN LAW. Their first set of all-new material in...

NEURAXIS – ASYLON (Album Review)

Canadian tech-metallers NEURAXIS last hit the scene with their 2008 release THE THIN LINE BETWEEN. Since that time, their last founding member has moved...

DARKEST HOUR – THE HUMAN ROMANCE (Album Review)

From the moment I laid eyes on the morbidly beautiful cover for THE HUMAN ROMANCE, the seventh studio album from Washington D.C.'s DARKEST HOUR,...

MACABRE – GRIM SCARY TALES (Album Review)

There's times I think that being from Chicago (and possibly the Midwest in general) causes a large portion of the population to graviate toward...

DEVILDRIVER – BEAST (Album Review)

DEVILDRIVER are back with their fifth album for Roadrunner Records (out February 22), and while it lacks innovation, the band serves up another heaping...

TESSERACT – ONE (Advance Album Review)

On their debut full-length entitled ONE, UK-based TESSERACT have crafted an intriguing collection of progressive metal that weaves their heavy playing between a thick...

THE WARRIORS – SEE HOW YOU ARE (Album Review)

It's not often this situation presents itself, but with THE WARRIORS are a band on their fourth studio album - and I haven't heard...

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