MUSIC

Avenged Sevenfold - Nightmare (Warner Bros) When Avenged Sevenfold started, their James Hetfield-ian vocal mannerisms helped their take on metalcore stand out in a cookie-cutter scene. Since then, though, they've followed in Metallica's footsteps in all the wrong...

Talk Is Poison - Rage To Infinity (Self-Released) The late ‘90s weren’t exactly a creative pinnacle for hardcore. Many of the bands who had created the best material of the previous decade had either broken up (Los Crudos, His Hero Is Gone) or started turning out...

"On the internet, there is no real underground anymore. So if you wanted to create an underground for yourself, the first thing you might do is generate a sort of lexical darknet by using keyterms search engines can’t parse."--Warren Ellis Genre neologisms piss me...

Charles Manson – Air (Magic Bullet Records) To review a new Charles Manson album in 2010 without certain preconceptions is a difficult, and perhaps impossible, prospect. Four decades of revulsion, adoration, and every type of sociological and psychological speculation...

This Moment In Black History - Public Square (Smog Veil) There is a sort of sonic sweet spot that the best rock bands can manage to wedge themselves into at their more inspired moments – where songs are possessed by an unhinged energy and dangle over the precipice of...