Hatebreed

New Hatebreed due out this August…. ” Supremacy”.
You can check out a forthcoming track, “To The Threshold” @ http://www.myspace.com/hatebreed

DKL Cover Danzig

Dry Kill Logic—whose last LP earned an 8 from me—will be releasing a new EP tomorrow, June 27, 2006. One of the tunes on the EP is a cover of Danzig’s “Dirty Black Summer”, which you can hear on their myspace page (http://www.myspace.com/drykilllogic). It’s damned close to the original version, too… with Cliff Rigano channeling [...]

Recher Theater Feed Fixed

A couple of weeks ago, the news feed for the Black Cat calendar took a shit on me, so I fixed it and everything was Jakey. Then, this week, the news feed for the Recher Theater’s upcoming shows stopped re-upping in the news reader. After a bit of tweaking, behold she is resurrected.
All this is [...]

The Bouncing Souls, “The Gold Record”

Eh.
Meanders around the entire range of Bouncing Souls riffs/sounds:

Punk ballad (“So Jersey”)
straightforward circle-pit fist-in-the-air punk (“The Gold Song”)
I guess you had to be there to really understand it? (“The Pizza Song”)
Love songs (“Sarah Saturday”)
Politics (“Letter From Iraq”)

And so on.
Not bad. Not great. Catchy and will stay in my playlist for a while, but won’t [...]

Bloodhound Gang, “Hefty Fine”

OK, so, for most people the Bloodhound Gang is worth a couple alt-radio-friendly earworms per album.
You probably want to buy “Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo” and “Uhn Tiss Uhn Tiss Uhn Tiss” off iTunes if you’re just looking for the earworms. The latter is a pretty amazing song on its own, the former is [...]

Ice Cube, “Laugh Now, Cry Later”

I don’t know what to say, except:
1. This is probably the best hip-hop record I’ve ever heard. Production is fantastic, and Cube is clearly at the top of his game.
2. This record pretty much illuminates how much most hip-hop now is derivative crap, or as Cube says, “All you rap about is pussy and money”.
Most [...]

Tool: 10k Days

I’d like to echo what Gary said. My thoughts:
1. You’re better musicians than we are, we get it already.
2. Seriously, if you change time signatures, key signatures, and overall motif THAT MANY TIMES on one track, I don’t give a shit what your art concept is, show some fucking discipline and edit.
Learn to swim, indeed.
At [...]

Instant Review: Lacuna Coil, “Comalies”

IS THIS CHICK HOT OR WHAT CAUSE I JUST RUBBED ONE OUT AND I THINK I’M HAVING SOME JERKERS REMORSE
HELP ME OUT HERE, PEOPLE. (ALSO NEED A TISSUE)
(Update: Yes, she’s totally spankable. See here, here, and here, where she wears those stupid boxing thingees Danzig used to wear live. As an aside the music is [...]

New Slayer

A new offering surfaced from Slayer on 06/6/2006 just like the rest of the satan junkies on the band wagon…. capitalizing on the once in a century 666 date, Slayer releases, “Cult”.
A single from a forth comming Ep (available @ i-tunes), or a “limited edition” cd @ Hot Topic (ooh, let me buy my docs [...]

Silent Civilian

I’ve had my hands on Silent Civilian’s “Rebirth Of the Temple” for quite some time now. So I figured I’d better make due with the review before Gary calls me a bitch and reviews it on his own.
To say the least, this album has been getting non-stop play since I bought it. When I heard [...]