Floodgate – Penalty – Review

December 1, 1996

Floodgate lifted the distinct touches of Soundgarden and Alice In Chains, smashed them into bare-bones trudge rock, and are half as good as Clutch.

Fifi – Sinkhole – Review

December 1, 1996

It’s fasterlouder coolass “stop/start/solo/stop/ start/etc.” I woulda loved this back when I thought Minor Threat was the greatest band on the planet.

Evil’s Toy – Morbid Mind – Review

December 1, 1996

The sound is akin to mid-late ’80s Skinny Puppy and Front Line Assembly. Dark, heavy rhythms and pin-prick synth melodies, and the vocals sound like Ogre.

El Vez – G.I. Ay, Ay! Blues – Review

December 1, 1996

El Vez came into being in 1990 with an indelibly hilarious image that he calls “Elvis con salsa,” that famous pompadour combined with a pencil-thin mustache.

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