Bottom has always been heavy and dark, but not like this! 2013 Bottom leans more Melvins/Blag Flag, with huge slabs of guitar fuzz to get their point across.
Fresh outta high school, Chicago’s Starkill use fantasy artwork on the cover of their debut CD and title their songs things like “Sword, Spear, Blood, Fire.”
Billy Bragg is a beloved everyman activist and protest singer/songwriter, and if you don’t know his work, stop posting stupid comments on Facebook and find out.
Seeing as Antarctica is a vast, harsh, desolate, ice cold expanse of misery, it’s amazing that it’s taken this long for it to get its due from the metal world.
Noisy rock with hardcore abound make Pennsylvania-based Pissed Jeans fourth outing (second by noise-master Alex Newport) a gem worth waiting four years for.
“Incident at Stinson Beach” is a fine instrumental that showcases the band’s penchant for psychedelia, surf rock, spaghetti Westerns, Middle Eastern scales and Far Eastern melodies.
Like the first time you heard Jet’s “Are You Gonna Be My Girl” (or The White Stripes), you feel the build, lean in, and get ready for the blues explosion.