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All Videos Credited to Original Creators When I woke up Thursday and took a peek at the city from my hotel room window, I noticed something funny – there was no sun. The sky was fortified by a wall of dense, grey clouds that weren’t willing to let any signs
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All Videos Credited to Original Creators As many times as I’d been to Maryland Deathfest, I’d never previously attended the Wednesday night pre-party. In past years it’d either sell out super quickly or was hosted miles away from the Power Plant compound where the rest of
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My first trip to Maryland Deathfest was back in 2014 for the 12th edition of the festival. I’d recently been bitten by the travel bug the year prior when I made a pilgrimage to Chicago to see Bolt Thrower on what would end up being their final US tour.
It’s impossible to overstate just how much of a cultural juggernaut Guns N’ Roses were back in the 80’s. With a constant presence on MTV, radio airplay, magazine covers, and the nightly tabloid entertainment shows, it was really the last time that a rock band would completely dominate
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The crew returns to explore Zen metal, debate re-recorded classics, and recount an awkward Paradise Lost VIP party. Plus: is modern indie pop just Journey in disguise?
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As the final days of 2025 begin to wind down, this is the time of year where well adjusted adults often reflect upon the experiences and memories of the last 11 months and twenty-something days. With the relentless pace of the 24 hour news cycle, the seemingly endless parade
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I have a somewhat controversial opinion. Mind Burns Alive was my AOTY when it came out; and it's leaps and bounds my favorite Pallbearer record. It's just a powerhouse of emotion and innovation. I hated it at first. I was like, "What the hell is
The crew returns to explore Zen metal, debate re-recorded classics, and recount an awkward Paradise Lost VIP party. Plus: is modern indie pop just Journey in disguise?
Art is not supposed to be safe. It’s been probably 20 years since I first heard that declaration, but man, does it still ring true today. We live in a timeline where for many of us, discomfort can be a choice. We can recoil into our own personal echo
It’s been almost 2 weeks since Ozzy and Black Sabbath graced the stage for (presumably) the last time, and since then I’ve had a fair amount of reflection about “Back to the Beginning”. Not just the magnitude of what the event signifies, i.e. the cessation of a
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Rob's been trying to get me on the William Elliott Whitmore train for a while now, so I wasn't entirely surprised that he picked Hymns for the Hopeless from his bag of tricks for me to listen to this week. I have thoughts about it... As
Art is not supposed to be safe. It’s been probably 20 years since I first heard that declaration, but man, does it still ring true today. We live in a timeline where for many of us, discomfort can be a choice. We can recoil into our own personal echo
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Aaron and Rob discuss Black Sabbath, Ozzy along with the following albums: Black Sabbath, Seventh Star, Cross Purposes and The Devil You Know.
It’s been almost 2 weeks since Ozzy and Black Sabbath graced the stage for (presumably) the last time, and since then I’ve had a fair amount of reflection about “Back to the Beginning”. Not just the magnitude of what the event signifies, i.e. the cessation of a
I went into this album knowing I would love it. It was just a matter of how much.
Occult doom at it's finest.
Aaron and Rob discuss our early friendship over metal, Silent Echoes, Skull 3, The Spin, and Idag.
Released in January 1986, Seventh Star was the 12th full length studio album from the mighty Black Sabbath. I’m pretty sure that I bought this record on vinyl at my local Albertson’s grocery store. My memory is hazy, but I recall that there was a cutout bin of
Fresh off of Black Sabbath’s colossal “Back to the Beginning” farewell sendoff, it’s hard to imagine a time when Sabbath wasn’t the biggest Metal band in the universe. If we rewind back to the mid/late 80’s, Black Sabbath was a mere footnote in the juggernaut
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