They’re a riot. They can play, write good songs, you can sing along and bop. It’ll be the secret of real punks mocking the fake punks, the way it should be.
A six-song mini-CD following last Fall’s Lovelorn, and a teaser for this summer’s Vinland Saga. Anyone into Evanescence or Lacuna Coil oughtta dig this.
It ruptures the spleen to try and figure out just how something so kitschy, trite, regurgitated, unimaginative, calculatedly “overprecious” can be eaten up.
For over a decade now, Lagwagon have penned the soundtracks of our lives. And having seen the band countless times, not much comes close to a Lagwagon show.
Ex-Godflesh mastermind Justin Broadrick’s first “real” outfit since the demise of the Giant G, Jesu promises to fuse ethereal ambience with crushing doom noise.
This generation’s Godflesh have returned. Equally epic and bombastic but with a different focus this time around: Melodies instead of sheer crushing riffage.
Angular guitars are complimented by atmospheric melodies, instilling visions of fiery oblivion. If there’s a soundtrack to damnation, Harnessing Ruin is it.