Talk about an album that’s aged extraordinarily well. One of the more interesting genre shifts happened when Facedown Records band A Hope For Home released their 2010 masterwork, Realis. Almost completely gone was the heavy Underoath-influenced post-hardcore of their first two records, and in its place was Realis, a criminally underrated masterpiece that quite honestly…
Somewhat shockingly, I’d never heard of Canadian singer/songwriter Nicole Dollanganger before her support slot on a tour with Code Orange early last year. As someone who prides himself on keeping up with almost every promising new act and band in existence, the fact that I hadn’t discovered Nicole earlier was quite sad. Having had music…
We’re barely over three months into 2018, and the year has so far been chock-full of surprises of every variety. So in that spirit, dear reader, I am going to utter a sentence so thoroughly unexpected that you may not have seen it spoken OR written in well over a decade. And the sentence is:…
Reunion albums can typically go down one of two distinct paths. After years away from releasing music, many bands pick up right where they left off before their breakups, making up for lost time by either returning to their roots, or by continuing to progress the sounds of their most recent material. This is a…
