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
Our monthly installment of metal albums we’ve been rocking, and you should too… Archaic Decapitator – Light of a Different Sun My little home state of Connecticut has a pretty stellar metal history of its own, including some criminally underrated death metal acts. One current act that is just starting to rightfully get more praise … More More (Metal) Guitar In The Monitor – June 2016
Time for another edition of our monthly series where we take a look at what metal albums have been recently rocking our world… Germ – Escape Australia’s Germ are the newest end vision of metal vet, Tim Yatras. While the ‘blackened shoegaze’ bandwagon seems to be getting a little overcrowded with a bunch of bands … More More (Metal) Guitar In The Monitor – May 2016
A new installment of the monthly series where we explore recent metal releases currently in heavy rotation. Magrudergrind – II Six years. Six long years since Magrudergrind has graced us with a raging slab of some of the best grindcore around. But while 2016 has not been kind thus far to aging rock stars … More More (Metal) Guitar In the Monitor – March 2016
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
A monthly wrap-up where we take a look at some of the recently released (metal) albums I’ve been rocking but didn’t have time to review in full… HUSH – Nihil Unbound Brutally heavy, crust-infused doom metal out of New York. HUSH play a brand of doom that will remind you of the more doom-drenched moments … More More (Metal) Guitar In The Monitor – February 2016
If you call yourself a metal fan and don’t know the name Albert Mudrian, you need to get clued in. As founder and Editor in Chief of Decibel Magazine, Mudrian sits somewhere right near the center of the Heavy Metal Universe as he oversees the biggest and best metal mag, at the very least in … More The Metal Dad Interviews Albert Mudrian
I listen to a lot of new music…a lot. That translates into a lot of album reviews for a couple different sites. But I have always been curious what my children would think of some of the albums that I’ve been loving. So we begin a new series of posts where I select one song … More Childish Reviews #1
On the eve of the first day of the 2015-16 school year my 15-year old proclaimed at the dinner table that she planned on wearing the above pictured vest to school. It elicited two very different reactions from her two very different parents. Both responses were, frankly, predictable. I exhibited a somewhat controlled burst of … More The Battle of the Battle Vest
We get a ton of catalogs mailed to the house, especially this time of year as the Holiday Season quickly approaches and manufacturers of all kinds desperately want you to buy their crap. About a month ago my 15 and 11 year old got bored one evening and decided to defame one of the clothing … More Corpse Paint Babies
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