Powerless Rise
When a nor’easter drops a foot of wet, heavy snow, takes down trees and power lines, and leaves most of your county without power, what do you do? Drive to your girlfriend’s place so you can record your podcast. The show must go on!
Reviews:
Wake – Misery Rites (Translation Loss)
Night In Gales – The Last Sunsets (Apostasy Records)
Deathwhite – For a Black Tomorrow (Season of Mist)
We’ve discussed this a few times on the show: growth vs. transformation, “going back to our roots” vs. regressing, consistent vs. stale. Some bands start as heroes but live long enough to see themselves become the villain, so to speak. Some pull a Darth Vader and find their way back. (Am I being nerdy enough for you?) Others just stay stuck at 55 in the right line. Then there are the ones who amaze coming out of the gate, so now we have to see where they go, if anywhere. This week’s reviews inadvertently became a study of these ideas, so get listening and share your thoughts in the comments!
Reviews:
Ghost Brigade – IV: One With the Storm (Season of Mist)
Machine Head – Bloodstone and Diamonds (Nuclear Blast)
Skyharbor – Guiding Lights (Basick)
Soen – Tellurian (Spinefarm)
Toothgrinder – Schizophrenic Jubilee (Spinefarm)
Live Review:
MegaDeaf Tour 2014: Part Deux featuring He Is Legend, Maylene and the Sons of Disaster, and Wounds at Webster Theater Underground in Hartford, CT on November 11, 2014
No, not really. That’s a joke. If this show ever sounds like we are trying to go for “radio friendly” hunt us down and shoot us because we sold out. Anyway, that bit was a not a complete non-sequiter, as you will hear in one of our five album reviews. And because that’s not enough, we also have two live reviews for shows your super-awesome hosts went to last week. So get comfy because this might take a little more time….but it’s worth it, I promise.
Reviews: Austrian Death Machine – Triple Brutal (Artery Recordings); Lacuna Coil – Broken Crown Halo (Century Media); Lesser Key – Lesser Key EP (Sumerian); Pet the Preacher – The Cave & The Sunlight (Napalm); Sockweb – Werewolf (Monolithic Records)
Live Reviews: “Halo of Blood over North America Tour” feat. Children of Bodom, Death Angel, Tyr @ Irving Plaza, New York, NY on March 28, 2014; The Ocean, Scale the Summit, The Atlas Moth @ The Studio at Webster Hall, New York, NY on March 29, 2014
