The graphics may not dazzle, but the battlefields are big and well-designed, and there’s so much content, you learn to love substance over style real quick.
Pure hard rock riff action without Soundgarden/Alice In Chains’ metal, Mudhoney’s salt blast garage howl, or Pearl Jam’n’Nirvana’s classic rock balladry.
Four Japanese girls in a band are set to perform at their high school’s festival when one of the girls is injured and can no longer play. Controversy ensues.
Ex-Ransom member and serial blogger Mikey Von Ransom shows his off his collection highlighted by Turbo A.C.’s, Lower Class Brats, Clit 45, and The Sleazies.
The Godfathers of the German industrial movement perform in a palace that serves as the seat of parliament. Demolition is underway; the hall is empty and cold.
I grew to embrace Sworn to a Great Divide just cuz, well, sometimes a by-the-books melodic death metal album from Soilwork is exactly what a person needs.
Bleeping honking and farting sine/cosine waves that fell from the art-inflected U.S. pre-punk underground’s soft, white underbelly via rusty knife c-section.
Nikki Sixx published a book called The Heroin Diaries and this is the soundtrack. A lot of inspired lyrics, but none so beautiful as “Accidents Can Happen.”
Pink Floyd (’67), Hawkwind (’70), and Chrome (’77) are antecedents, as is Amon Duul, Guru Guru, and Can. Joy Division and Throbbing Gristle are in the diet too.