As a fan of Sharptone Records, I’m always keen to see what they have to offer with their diverse, talented roster. One they’ve been marketing quite a lot is The Wise Man’s Fear, with the headline of their genre as “Fantasycore.” I was confident this band would be far more than a gimmick, so I’m…
I’ll admit off the get-go, I know about The Airborne Toxic Event solely thanks to their inescapable 2009 hit, “Sometime Around Midnight.” Made to be played over and over on radio, I wanted to see how the band is holding up more than a decade later, as they’re clearly not a one-hit wonder. I’m going…
I’m recalling a time in 2010 when I was just starting to get into the heavier side of music. Sifting through similar bands, I came across Crossfaith’s The Artificial Theory for the Dramatic Beauty and thoroughly enjoyed the short-but-sweet LP with a hard-hitting synth focus. Fast-forward ten years, and Crossfaith has persisted and signed to the fantastic…
Caliban. Heaven Shall Burn. We Butter the Bread with Butter. There’s tons of great metalcore to come out of Germany, but it’s been a while since bands like that have conquered the scene. Enter One More Word, a band out of Hamburg spawned in 2016. With just an EP and some singles under their belt,…
