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CONCERT REVIEW: Napalm Death – Melvins – Dark Sky Burial – Titan To Tachyons live at The Warsaw

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05.07.25-Warsaw Theater- Brooklyn, NY

I was gifted the opportunity to catch the second coming of the Napalm Death, Melvins tour package known as The Savage Imperial Death March Part II, but still sad I missed part I with Melt Banana. I love that band! The leg of the tour that I was able to partake in had Dark Sky Burial (Napalm’s Death’s bassist Shane Embury’s project), and Titan To Tachyons (featuring members of Imperial Triumphant) open Brooklyn’s recently renovated Warsaw theater.Continue reading →


ALBUM REVIEW: Puppe Magnetik – Laudans Deum

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Puppe Magnetik has existed since 2022 as the brainchild of Finnish musician Aina Virtanen. Laudans Deum (Rune Serpent Europa) is the project’s debut record, and it promises to blend elements of Neofolk, Dark Ambient, Death-Industrial, and Avant-Garde music.Continue reading →


FESTIVAL REVIEW: Punk Rock Bowling XXV Live at Various Venues in Las Vegas

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The revered punk and candlepins festival Punk Rock Bowling celebrated its twenty-fifth birthday this year at the Downtown Las Vegas Event Center, featuring Cock Sparrer, Peter Hook and the Light (New Order/Joy Division), and Social Distortion.Continue reading →


CONCERT REVIEW: Avenged Sevenfold and Palaye Royale Live at Water Square

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Release (Festival) Athens opened their 2025 festival season with metal giants Avenged Sevenfold and Palaye Royale at Water Square. The pale-skinned metal heads braved the hot sun from all over Greece and nations beyond to experience Avenged Sevenfold’s first-ever performance in the country.Continue reading →


ALBUM REVIEW: Morbyda – Under The Spell

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Although only formed in 2022, you could easily be forgiven for thinking that Leipzig speed metallers Morbyda have been around since the early eighties as debut album Under the Spell (Dying Victims Productions) hits all the right nostalgia notes while delivering something uniquely its own.Continue reading →


ALBUM REVIEW: The Cure – Mixes of a Lost World

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The Cure’s Songs of a Lost World was my favorite album of 2024, so hearing it remixed by 24 different artists gave me pause. It’s not the first time Robert Smith has loosened his notoriously tight grip to allow artists to remix his work. With Mixes of Lost World (Fiction Records), it’s obvious Smith was in control of curating who he trusted with these songs. There are the obvious culprits who you almost expect having their hand in a re-mix album like Paul Oakenfold and Oribital, then he handed it over to bands in his close circle like tour-mates The Twilight Sad and Mogwai to not just prep the songs for the dance floor but applied their instruments into their reworkings which were both very true to the creative spirt of the band. Continue reading →


ALBUM REVIEW: Mugshot – All The Devils Are Here

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Over the years, I have come across music that covers the full spectrum of emotion and appreciate most of it. Sometimes I just need a good angry album to take the edge off, and Mugshot has delivered just that. All The Devils Are Here (Pure Noise Records) is a storm of twelve tracks that blow past you in less than half an hour. The mixture of hardcore punk and Swedish death metal ebbs and flows in either direction as the album progresses, keeping my attention.Continue reading →


CONCERT REVIEW: Turnstile Live at Technopolis

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Amazing to watch a band grow so exponentially over the last few years, that in a distant country like Greece, Turnstile were upgraded to a larger outdoor venue, a big deal for acts that come to Athens.Continue reading →


PODCAST: Glacially Musical #237 – The Early Years of The Beastie Boys – NYHC Punk, “Cookie Puss,” and More

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We started a new series on The Beastie Boys! Our first Hip-Hop series (more metal next series, we promise)! Nike, Don, and Keefy deep dive into the early years of the band, how they formed, how a “joke song” led them down the path to become one of the biggest-selling acts in Rap in the eighties and 1990s!Continue reading →


ALBUM REVIEW: Archers – Temporary High

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Melodic Metalcore has come on in leaps and bounds in the past half decade, with acts like Catch Your Breath earning their stripes with the high numbers of streams on TikTok as well as Bad Omens becoming a stand-out act in the genre with the help of a single album, the cleaner, more Pop and R&B-influenced side to the genre is making waves in the scene. Continue reading →