Hell at The Masquerade
Counterparts
There’s an anxiety in life that comes from knowing there isn’t anything to do but try to prepare for the inevitability of change. And sometimes the only thing that can make a drastic shift or an ending more difficult is to see it coming. On their seventh full-length, A Eulogy For Those Still Here, Counterparts…
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Stray From The Path are not ones to mince words. The lyrics “Thinking like everyone else is not really thinking” open the hardcore boundary-defiers’ new album, Internal Atomics, and it’s an immediate declaration of intent: the world as we know it isn’t working, and it’s time for something new. In every way, the album is…
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Rock publications are quick to name (and rename) subgenres, declaring one dead and another triumphant, in a constant game of musical chairs with “the king is dead, long live the king” drama. One magazine proclaimed that melodic death metal “killed nü-metal dead.” A year or two before, the same mag championed a subgenre called “noisecore,”…
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