Chain Wandering Deeply: Revisiting Envy’s 2003 post-hardcore masterpiece, “A Dead Sinking Story”

Japanese post-hardcore/screamo/post-rock band Envy occupies a unique place in the music scene. Not quite comfortable fitting in any of the aforementioned genre descriptors, yet containing elements of all of said genres, Envy’s music is both crushing and cathartic, flourishing the most when their post-rock and screamo influences coalesce into something truly emotional and cathartic. Envy…

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A Firestorm To Purify: Revisiting Earth Crisis’ highly influential metalcore album, “Destroy The Machines”

Few bands can claim to be as influential on the last 20+ years of metalcore quite as much as Earth Crisis. In fact, the band has also been just as influential on popularizing and making light of animal rights issues, and a drug/substance-free lifestyle as well. Really, it was on their first two EP’s in…

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On ‘Welcome To The Neighbourhood’, Boston Manor focused their efforts to create a bold album of reinvention

While their 2016 debut full-length Be Nothing. was a great start to UK rock band Boston Manor’s career, it’s clear that, upon listening to Welcome To The Neighbourhood, the best was yet to come. Take the title track, for instance. It’s quite a shock for those who were introduced to the band’s initial pop-punk sound…

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Stay Outside: On ‘Able Bodies’, From Indian Lakes continued to evolve into one of indie rock’s most dynamic acts

From Indian Lakes, the brainchild of Joey Vannucchi, is certainly one of the more interesting and diverse indie rock acts of our time. Emerging as a promising act to watch on 2009’s As Cities Burn-influenced The Man With Wooden Legs, From Indian Lakes have evolved into a truly special entity on their later material, especially…

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