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By Katie Brutal on June 8, 2010
Phil Bozeman’s grasp on the evil, violent underbelly of, well, the world, is tighter than Rashad Evan’s chokehold, and has never been more apparent than now throughout the lyrics on Whitechapel‘s new record, A New Era Of Corruption. The album kicks off with what ends up to be one of my favourite tracks “Devolver,” about the devolution [...]
Posted in Featured, Reviews | Tagged A New Era Of Corruption, Acacia Strain, Deftones, Metal Blade Records, myspace.com/katiebrutal, myspace.com/whitechapel, Whitechapel |
By Katie Brutal on May 3, 2010
I credit As I Lay Dying with practically single-handedly pulling me back into metal. After college I went headfirst into my internship 40-50 hours a week and spent the rest of my time trying to make ends meet working morning shifts fulltime at Starbucks. I all but ignored new music in general, instead closing my [...]
Posted in Reviews, Tours | Tagged Adam D., as I Lay dying, katie brutal, The Powerless Rise |
By Katie Brutal on April 21, 2010
Sunday night, my metal contemporary-and-friend Suzy and I approached the doors of The National in Richmond, VA. “Hi! I should be on the guestlist…?” Two texts, a phone call, a handing-of-my-phone-over-to-the-nice-smiling-chica-running-the-will-call-office-who-then-handed-the-phone-to-her-boss…. And we were in. (New town and a newer venue for me to frequent… you never know if it’s going to come through or [...]
Posted in Reviews, Tours | Tagged Baroness, Between The Buried And Me, katie brutal, Mastodon, The National, Valient Thorr |
By Katie Brutal on March 29, 2010
In this weird age of practically internet-only/underground support (since the yet-again-demise of Headbangers Ball,) I am often surprised when a new video is made and released by a metal band. Or, actually, any band that doesn’t have a million dollar budget for small promotions such as music videos. And although there doesn’t seem to be [...]
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By Katie Brutal on March 9, 2010
Just got the word from the fine folks at Roadrunner Records that DragonForce is moving forward without the vocal prowess of ZP Theart. “It is with great regret that DragonForce announce a parting of the ways with singer ZP Theart. This is due to insurmountable differences of musical opinion but the rest of the band [...]
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By Katie Brutal on March 6, 2010
Hey so… so far 2010 has been relatively uneventful. Blame snowpocalypse… I do. Haha… sigh. Ok, so metal is not revving our engines right now… I know it’s just a drought. I, in fact, have plans to see Unearth in Richmond in two weekends, and Mastodon in April. The Mayhem lineup is looking, um, interesting [...]
Posted in Reviews | Tagged Anima, Howard Jones, katie brutal, Mastodon, Mayhem, Ozzfest, Whitechapel |
By Katie Brutal on January 25, 2010
I think I’m in love. I can’t say I’ve enjoyed an album more in 2010 than Bangers, the Metal Blade debut from Montreal’s Barn Burner. Since it’s only the end of January, that statement may sound like a backhanded compliment – make no mistake: Barn Burner is the shit. I foresee these dudes quickly rising [...]
Posted in Reviews | Tagged Bangers, Barn Burner, katie brutal, metal blade, SXSW |
By Katie Brutal on December 31, 2009
So it’s pretty sweet when you can listen to shitloads of new metal and then decide what’s great and what’s not so great… and then tell everybody. I love this gig. You don’t have to agree with me on this. Or really on anything ever. But feel free to comment below if you’d like. And [...]
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