Yet another stable of the nu-metal era in alternative rock is back with a new release. Following in the footsteps of recent releases from bands such as Limp Bizkit and Papa Roach, Disturbed is back with 10000 Fists, the band’s third proper studio release. In its over five year existence, Disturbed have established themselves as one…
Before you hit play on Trivium’s Ascendancy and make your attempt at astral planning to the pure land, meditate on the history of a great new band. There is some serious mastery involved in this band.
“Gasoline is what it takes to get things moving and this is the album that’s going to take us from one place to another.” Those are the words of Tyler Connolly the front man for the Vancouver band Theory of a Deadman who are tearing up the charts and entertaining crowds throughout the country.
If you’ve been a fan of Canadian new rock over the last ten years then you are bound to remember the band Econoline Crush. The Vancouver based band formed in the early 1990s in Seattle, Washington when the eventual lead singer Trevor Hurst answered an ad for a new band in a local newspaper. After the band formed, Hurst and his four bandmates uprooted…
Recently, Chris Gonda had a chance to sit down with Shinedown’s bassist, Brad Stewart, and drummer, Barry Kerch. They talked about the origin of the band, getting signed, the new album and their many influences. Check it out!
It is amusingly ironic (and borderline eerily coincidental) how aptly titled the band Illbreak actually is. This group’s name invariably boats a hilarious double meaning; one which refers not only to their super-fortunate and perfectly-timed big music break (details forthcoming), but also to the refreshing type of sound that they will inevitably carry with them into the rock music world.
While the first half of Get Behind Me Satan is quite respectable, the second half of the CD is just about as strong.