Another monthly installment of More Guitar In The Monitor where we extol the virtues of some killer new metal releases… Them Bulls – Them Bulls There are rock purists that feel that stoner rock is too…well, rock…to be swallowed under the blackening umbrella of heavy metal. Those purists don’t understand the history of metal … More More (Metal) Guitar In The Monitor – September 2016
Some acts seemingly live to defy classification. In 2010 when Horseback came galloping out of the North Carolina hills with their Relapse Records debut, The Invisible Mountain, in hand it helped usher in the whole “blackened shoegaze” movement that would become not only the taste of choice for quite a few metal fans (and fringe … More Review: Horseback – Dead Ringers
Another installment of the recently released, non-metal albums in heavy rotation… The CarLeans – Drowning Moon Made up of some very talented New London scene vets, The CarLeans are, quiet honestly, one of the sweetest sounding acts around these parts. Their newest album, Drowning Moon, is not just a step forward for the band, … More More (Non-Metal) Guitar In the Monitor – August 2016
We’ve all heard some variant on the expression that there can be no light without darkness. Beauty does not now, nor has it ever existed in a vacuum. There is a perpetual ying and yang that subsists in the natural world, that is sewn into the very fiber of our beings from birth. Plenty of … More Review: Troller – Graphic
2014 was a great year for heavy music. Hell, the return of EyeHateGod alone was worth the price of admission. But the most startling release that year, the one that has stuck around like the grief of a lost love came from Portland’s Muscle and Marrow. The Human Cry was a stunning array of esoteric … More Review: Muscle and Marrow – Love
They say when worlds collide, magical results often abound. What happens when the world of Iceland’s premiere neo-classical/indie folk outfit collides with one of the most beautiful voices in the world? Well, let’s just say that the result is indeed a magical one. Anneke van Giersbergen became a household name for metal fans as the … More Review: Anneke van Giersbergen and Arstidir – Verloren Verleden
Another edition of our monthly round-up series where we highlight some of the non-metal albums that have been in constant rotation… Wöljager – Van’t Liewen Un Stiäwen This album from Germany’s Wöljager (the one-man project of Helrunar’s Marcel Dreckmann) was originally conceived as a theater play revolving around the story of a certain type … More More (Non-Metal) Guitar In The Monitor – May 2016
Skáphe – Skáphe2 Back in February, Philadelphia’s Skáphe released their second album, with the CD version coming to us from ever interesting I, Voidhanger Records. Upon first listen this was an album I truly had a hard time trying to compartmentalize. It’s an album that is as confounding as it is intriguing, and that’s meant … More More (Metal) Guitar In The Monitor – April 2016
While I enjoy perusing the occasional ‘most anticipated albums’ list, I don’t partake in them myself unless specifically asked. However, when the calendar flipped and another dying year gave birth anew if I had made one of those lists you can bet the farm that the new one from North Carolina’s Mount Moriah would have … More Review: Mount Moriah – How To Dance
Do you like your rock with an edge? Do you like it sounding like it should be played in a bar that has a strip club neighboring it on one side and a pot dispensary on the other, and not so secret hallways that lead to both? Maybe a place where people still smoke and … More Review: Black Wail – All You Can Eat
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