BOLD „The Search: 1985-1989”
Cool Songs: Running Like Thieves, You're the Friend That I Don't Need, Always Try, Looking Back, Hateful, Speak Out, Today We Live, Talk is Cheap, Nailed to the X, Clear, Wise Up, Still Strong
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OBITUARY „Frozen In Time”
The reunion renaissance continues to roll on. Eight years on since Back from the Dead (a title that served as a precursor to their first reunion), Floridian Death Metal merchants rise from the grave it seems to release Frozen In Time.
GO IT ALONE „The Only Blood Between Us”
Cool Songs: Flatline, Nothing Gold, Water Finds It's Own Level, Cold Winter
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PELICAN „The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw”
When Chicagos monolithic instrumentalists Pelican released their March into the Sea EP a couple of months back, I made the statement that its musical approach was just a hint of what was possibly going to be an even more exploratory and daring full length. With the release of The Fire..
CHIODOS „All's Well That Ends Well”
Cool Songs: All Nereids Beware, The Words “Best Friend” Become Redefined, There's No Penguins In Alaska, No Hardcore Dancing In the Living Room.
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IOMMI (WITH GLENN HUGHES) „Fused”
Cool Songs: Grace, What You're Living For, Deep Inside A Shell, I Go Insane
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SUICIDE MACHINES „War Profiteering Is Killing Us All”
Cool Songs: War profiteering is Killing us all, 17% 18 to 25, All Systems Fail, The Red Flag.
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SILVERSTEIN „Discovering The Waterfront”
Just like any other style of heavy, guitar drive music, the emo/hardcore scene also has its bottomless well. Theres the impressive (Eighteen Visions, Anberlin), the ordinary (Hopesfall, Roses are Red) and the countless others that fall somewhere in the middle.