Tagged: albumoftheday

Personally, I love Spotify, because it has allowed me to find a bunch of bands I'd never heard of. I mean yeah, like most other sources, you have to sift through a bunch of crap to actually discover something worthwhile. But when you do, why, you can spend the rest of your day listening to [...]

I'd say I don't get why Sexcrement don't get enough love, but… well, it's right there in the name, in that it is their name. Then again, it's not exactly false advertising: their sole (for now) full length is called Genitales from the Porno Potty, and just look at the title of the EP above. [...]

New York's Cro-Mags are best known for two arguably unimpeachable hardcore classics, 19862s seminal The Age of Quarrel and its far more metallic 1989 follow-up Best Wishes. Constantly in conflict, the Krishna-conscious lineup remained in flux so much that the group has never managed to have the same line-up on any album, so much so [...]

Evil Empire might not've had the non-stop song-to-song momentum that its self-titled predecessor did but it still packed one hell of a motherfucking punch. "People of the Sun," "Bulls on Parade," "Down Rodeo" and "Without a Face" are all classics in the Rage canon, and the comparatively raw production of Evil Empire gets right up in [...]

I was trying to think of a good excuse I could use as to write about Ratt ,since I've been having kind of a Ratt week. Warren DeMartini's birthday? No. Apparently, that was in April. Anniversary of Robbin Crosby's death? Nope, that was back in June. Then it hit me! The always useful ALBUM OF [...]

If anyone remembers the Completely Unreadable Logo of the Week for July 6, 2007, then you'll actually know who Misericordiam already. I hadn't started writing for MS at that point, but I was thrilled to see the band represented on the site when I later went looking through the archives. Unfortunately, the groupthen proceeded to break [...]

If memory serves, the Spawn movie which came out in 1997 was pretty terrible, but we did get one great thing out of it: the soundtrack. It was pretty much like the Judgment Night soundtrack, only instead of combining metal bands with rap acts, it teamed up metal bands with electronica acts. And every song [...]

As much as I bitch about summer and hot weather, I have my yearly tradition to hail in the dread season. I get myself a cold drink, usually a nice wheat beer, and blast Brave New World and the air-conditioner. I'm not a complete sociopath; I'll have the shades up so my apartment is light [...]

The Antlers - Burst Apart (2011) I Don't Want Love French Exit Parentheses No Widows Rolled Together Every Night My Teeth Are Falling Out Tiptoe Hounds Corsicana Putting the Dog to Sleep What Is It? The fourth album by Brooklyn trio The Antlers (counting the self-released Uproot ), and follow-up to their breakthrough-of-sorts, 20092s death-chronicle Hospice [...]

Like everybody, I got a good laugh from CBS L.A. news correspondent Serene Branson's gibberish-packed meltdown/report from the Grammys in February (watch it here). But unlike most, I understood exactly what she meant by "heavy burtation." It may have been seizure-induced mouth mutiny, but it's a term that I wish existed back in 1998 when [...]

Earthship's name is a funny thing, because the music the band makes takes us exactly away from Earth, not towards it. It's strange to hear such otherworldly sounds these days, but it's also quite refreshing. Like the best music should do, it creates vivid mental images. And that's not something I often hear. Exit Eden is [...]

Polaris - Music From the Adventures of Pete & Pete (1999) Hey Sandy She is Staggering Waiting for October Saturnine Everywhere Ivy Boy Summerbaby Coronado II Ashamed of the Story I Told As Usual Recently The Monster's Lose What Is It? In case you're too young (or old, I suppose) to remember, [...]

Q and Not U - No Kill No Beep Beep (2000) A Line in the Sand And the Washington Monument (Blinks) Goodnight Fever Sleeves Hooray for Humans Kiss Distinctly American We Heart Our Hive Little Sparkee The More I Get, the More I Want Y Plus White Girl Nine Things Everybody Knows Sleeping the Terror Code [...]

So, I don't like all the Celtic Frost albums I'm supposed to as much as I should. I mean, don't get me wrong: To Mega Therion? Awesome. Monotheist? Excellent return to form. Triptykon's debut? Motherfucker's still got it, gym pants, eyeliner and all. But they don't hit me like a great album's supposed to hit [...]

I was mindlessly channel surfing, as you do at the end of a long day, when I saw a flash of blond hair that could only be Sebastian Bach. Naturally, I had to go back to see if it was true. Lo and behold, I was right. Now, I don't know what's sadder; that I [...]

Traffic - The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys (1971) Hidden Treasure The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys Rock and Roll Stew Many a Mile to Freedom Light Up or Leave Me Alone Rainmaker What Is It? The fifth studio album by the Steve Winwood-led group and arguably the best of their second phase, one of their best overall. I'm not sure what else I can say about it [...]

Say Hi - Impeccable Blahs (2006) These Fangs Snowcones and Puppies Blah Blah Blah Sad, But Endearingly So She Just Happens to Date the Prince of Darkness Prefers Unhappy Endings Angels and Darlas Not as Goth as They Say We Are Sweet Sweet Heartkiller The Reigning Champ of the Teething Crowd What Is It? Say Hi, or Say Hi to Your Mom as the band was known at [...]

Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears - Scandalous (2011) Livin' in the Jungle I'm Gonna Leave You Booty City Black Snake She's So Scandalous Messin' Mustang Ranch You Been Lyin' Ballad of Jimmy Tanks Since I Met You Baby Jesus Took My Hand What Is It? The second proper album from an Austin, TX collective, inhabiting that space funk, soul, blues and good ol' rock 'n [...]

Cerebral Corps - Attributed to Cerebral Corps (1992) ...Sounding Song Very Idea! Chester Norman Cris-Cross Father's Name Was Dad Myopia Girl From the Carnival Music Intertia I'm Haemorrhaging (in F#) Perihelion What Is It? Two songwriters from California-Bob Vickers and Jeff Saltzmann-got together one night and recorded ten weird little songs with some guitars and keyboards. Later, they had some other folks come in and overdub other parts [...]

Lately melodic death hasn't been impressing anyone, including myself. And so I thought I'd take a look back at a record that never fails to give me that warm fuzzy feeling inside. Sure, everyone has a big ol' boner for Tales from the Thousand Lakes, but the Amorphis album I prefer is the less-favored Eclipse. [...]