Hell at The Masquerade
Stick To Your Guns
Since emerging in 2003, Southern California’s Stick To Your Guns—Jesse Barnett [vocals], Andrew Rose [bass], George Schmitz [drums], Chris Rawson [guitar], and Josh James [guitar]—have merged socially conscious and outspoken lyricism with hardcore energy and hammering metallic force. They took a bold step in a new direction on their sixth full-length album, True View [Pure…
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Complacency kills creativity, and nobody seems to know that better than Comeback Kid. Outsider, the long-running hardcore outfit’s latest LP, showcases that in spades. Capturing the all-out intensity of the band’s riotous live shows, it’s as urgent and unrelenting as anything they’ve done in the past. And yet while many of their peers consider sonic…
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What got out of Orthodox’s A Door Left Open was a capital M Monolithic Metal record, which accomplished its goal of approximating the dread one would feel coming home to a door ajar. The lack of subgenres attached to the overarching weight doesn’t mean there weren’t influences from heavy music’s history, rather that attempting to…
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DEATHWESTERN. An arcane combination of words that brings to mind lurid and blood-drenched images of crumbling pulp magazines from the 30’s and 40’s. It’s also the second full length album from Las Vegas’ SPIRITWORLD. Set in singer and multi-instrumentalist Stu Folsom’s apocalyptic, Horror Western vision of the American West, DEATHWESTERN picks up where their crushing 2020 debut,…
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