The folks who insist that all black metal is loudness for the sake of loudness are a lot like the folks who think that all rap is about "bitches, hoes, blunts, & gats" -- in other words, they have heard part of the story but not the entire story. It's true that a lot of rap (especially gangsta rap) is obsessed with "bitches, hoes, blunts, & gats, but a true hip-hop head can tell you that rap is also everything from the lightheartedness of the Fresh Prince to the biting political commentary ...

Intricacy, musicality, craftsmanship, & nuance are words that, back in 1989, were hardly ever used to describe death metal -- a style so extreme, so ferocious, so intent on annoying parents at any cost that it seemed destined to self-destruct. But Dark Tranquillity & their expansive colleagues in Gothenburg, Sweden, refused to believe that death metal could not be musical, nuanced, & melodic, & that outlook continues to define them on Fiction. This rewarding CD was recorded in 2006 & r ...

By their third long-player (and second since the traumatizing defection of original singer Anders Frid?n), The Mind's I, Dark Tranquility were making very positive strides, gaining in confidence, but still playing serious catch-up to In Flames & At the Gates in the battle of the Gothenburg extreme metal bands. Yes, their dated & overly laborious early-'90s Swedish death metal habits had by now largely & wisely been replaced by more economical (read: shorter) songwriting, their melodies wer ...

Darkest Hour are the band the everyone in the metal community has been buzzing about. So much much that the people at OZZFEST heard this buzz & added them to this year's USA tour. Darkest Hour are an extremely fierce band whom incorporate elements of Death Metal, Thrash & Punk
- high octane frenzied mayhem, chaotic melody, homicidal vocals, machine gun bass drum, & technical guitars. With all the exitement surrounding Darkest Hour, Victory Records is issuing a special version of this g
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Metal music is recieving a huge resurrgence at present & Darkest Hour have played a pivitol roll in dragging the new breed of metal into the 21st century. Unlike the oversaturated Nu Metal market (Linkin Park, Papa Roach, Limp Bizkit) Darkest Hour are all about authenticity. Undoing Ruin will command the kind of attenetion that Metallica's Ride the Lightning did all those years ago (1984). For the un initiated Darkest Hour are a hybrid of Kill Switch Engage, Slayer & At the Gates, the twin g ...

' Permission To Land' is the debut album by the Suffolk-formed four-piece rock act whose line up

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Released ten years after Hall & Oates' heyday & seven after Daryl Hall's last solo venture, 3 Hearts in the Happy Ending Machine, Soul Alone finds Hall on unsure ground. It had been only three years since he had seen the upper reaches of the charts, yet it felt like much more time had passed since he had truly reigned over mainstream pop/rock. From the sounds of Soul Alone, he longed for those days, but not as much as longed for his youth in Philadelphia, & with it, the Philly soul & folk- ...