While Avatar may not satisfy the hard psych freaks who worship earlier records, there’s room for both sides of the band’s personality in my collection.
This collection of jangly holler-pop feels at times like a sort of a Weight-Watchers version of Smashing Pumpkins: Intensity minus the some of the depth.
The tale unfolds when a youngster is haunted by traumatic memories of a circus geek doing his bloody thang, and years later, is released from an institution.
When Bowie met up with John Lennon in 1975, the most well-known result is the Gawdawful “Fame.” The lesser-known result is their love-child, Butch Walker.
A mixture of clean and screaming vocals, chugga-chugga breakdowns, and In Flames rip-off riffs. But Burn In Silence add something unique: Symphonic keyboards.
Ultra heavy extreme metal that grabs from a bag of styles including death, thrash, and black metal. They’re French, and they have a thing for H.P. Lovecraft.