Recent content by Xpyro125

In Flames having a massive, varied discography scratches an itch for me both with the musical diversity and with the sheer history of it all that I think mostly works out for the studio albums (Not the Benson ones), but I absolutely see why it falls apart for live play. But honestly, I really do...

I don’t know how we missed it, but Nuclear Blast released Dance With the Devil four weeks ago. Meaning that four of the five songs on the EP were released before it dropped. That’s fucked, and I’m really starting to hate the label for this bullshit. Imagine having your EP release only for people...

I think I only touched on it a little bit, but it’s probably caused a lot of newer fans to look at the classic albums and just see a blob of the same sort of stuff over and over when all four of them are actually surprisingly distinct from one another. I think to older fans, IF doing something...

I think for a band with an especially storied history, it’s bound to eventually become just playing the hits. It’s the singles that people end up remembering the most, be it because of how often they’re performed, the fact that they were released before their albums, the music videos, or...

Back when I saw them live, the rest of the audience was kinda confused when Anders said they’d be going back to the beginning for one song, with a couple people thinking it was going to be Behind Space. I don’t entirely blame them though, especially since Subterranean is technically an EP even...

I mean Their music’s been Americanized for a while now, but now it’s been infused with totally rad modern metalcore, dude, so of course it’s got more American fans than anything. Foregone rules, don’t you know? In all seriousness, for a modern metalcore album, it’s actually a tiny bit better...

Cemetery Skyline put out a new song sometime ago. You guys might’ve posted it and had that conversation already, maybe not, I don’t know since I’ve been really busy for a while now. It’s good, but I wish it had a nice rhythm section. Otherwise, there’s not really much I’d change. Weirdly...

Well, I’ll be damned. That’s exactly what they did, it’s a tried and true THE cover. At first I felt the chorus was a bit stiff, but I’m gonna go against the grain: It’s stiff in the original too. I’m not as kind towards 80s rock and roll as most people, but I know a good 80s chorus. The...

That latter thing’s another wonderful quality for a cover to have. Admittedly, the only one I can think of off the top of my head is Black Soul Choir, I don’t think most people have heard of 16 Horsepower, and a lot of those who do these days are likely because of that Devildriver cover (Myself...

Yeah, it does. I feel the same sort of way, though I also do enjoy covers that kinda just ‘refresh’ (I don’t want to say modernize because I would be dead wrong) the original in a well-executed way. I know Stairway is the song you don’t cover, but Heart and Mastodon did it wonderfully. Stuff...

This site’s been fucked for me for a few months now. Admittedly, I’ve been mainly using it on mobile, but especially when I made the acoustic compilation it took around a week before I could send it here because the site just wouldn’t load. There was only one other instance before that where it...

I don’t know why, but it’s genuinely surprising that it’s just five songs. I was expecting like seven or eight. I really hope that they don’t put out another single on Friday or just any day before the album’s release. I’m not the biggest fan of President, but as someone who wanted to feel the...

Holy shit. Cancer too. I don’t even know what to say, that’s a fucking massive loss in our scene. I never really got into At the Gates all too much, only a few songs of theirs here and there really resonated with me. I did quite like his vocals until their most recent stuff, but I wasn’t into...

Remission, Leviathan, Blood Mountain, and Crack the Skye (depending on my mood, anyways, Blood Mountain’s my favorite of the four) all make for a legendary series of albums, a genuine generational run. I’m definitely not quite as huge on newer Mastodon (Hushed and Grim kinda sucks, which is a...

The site hasn’t been working for me for the entirety of this week until now. Maybe that’s a good thing for me given everything recently, but it still sucks. I made an acoustic compilation of a bunch of In Flames tracks (Digitally, I don’t actually know how to play guitar, and I don’t have the...