THIS LONESOME PARADISE DEATH MOTELS BAD VIBES GOOD FRIENDS Keep the tempo slow. Saturate the guitar sound with echo and tremolo – no fast chromatic power chords or whizzing licks. Have the vocals at least baritone in range with some added [...]
THE LONG RYDERS HIGH NOON HYMNS CHERRY RED RECORDS It’s easy to dismiss any performer for abiding by the tropes or cliches of the genre they produce music in. All genres have them too: the oft-used blues-based riffage of classic rock, the [...]
A QUARTER CENTURY MUSICAL MEMORIAL IN MEMORIAM OF MUSICIANS LOST IN 2025 Bluntly, 2025 was a hell of a year. The world finished its first quarter of the Millennium and forgetting ongoing international conflicts, constant economic struggles, and [...]
HELLOWEEN GIANTS & MONSTERS REIGNING PHOENIX MUSIC Hard rock and heavy metal, with its death, doom, sludge, stoner, and other sub-genres, still ought to be that go-to genre for audio catharsis, no matter the age of the listener. However, so [...]
CARLA HARVEY THE VIOLENT HOUR MEGAFORCE RECORDS An EP by an established female singer that also holds a bachelor’s degree in Mortuary Business and Management as well as a Master’s in Thanatology, that has left her previous band. Probably just [...]
