It’s been six months since metal stalwarts Mastodon gave us their latest full-length album, Emperor of Sand. I don’t know about you guys, but I’ve been using those six months well in terms of repeatedly jamming that record. And now here we are with a [...]
While I thoroughly enjoy a good hardcore album as much as the next guy, there’s an overarching gripe that I have that’s keeping me from lauding the genre too much. In my humble opinion, there just isn’t enough unique variety to differentiate the [...]
My knowledge of Cardinals Folly is practically identical to my knowledge of their country of origin, Finland. I know nothing about it, but at the same time, I think I do. I assume it’s a Northern European country, I’m pretty sure there’s a lot of snow, [...]
Joining the ranks of the Indiana metal community is Bloomington’s metalcore act From Failure’s Ashes. They are a brand new band, and they are getting ready to begin their musical quest to greatness. Since the band’s inception, they have [...]
At the risk of sounding a little weird, I forget the last time I ever heard of case where a band switched out a female vocalist for a male one instead of the other way around. Cruthu of Lansing, Michigan is one such example as this phenomenon: their [...]
In advance of their forthcoming album, Relic, Louisiana’s Forming the Void have been teasing us with just a single track: “Bialozar.” As far as teasers go, it’s working; I want more. They waste no time dropping that main riff on you, letting the drums [...]
Liquid Signal is one of the more overlooked bands in the Indiana doom scene. While their placement up north in Kouts, Indiana puts them a little far from the hubbub here in Indianapolis, they’ve been forging their own path with a fair number of [...]
I’m not one to read too deeply into a band’s choice of album artwork, but the second album by Almeda, California’s Tvsk is an exception worth looking into. Like their 2015 debut From the Ashes, Learn to Die features a similarly cracked desert [...]
