Alexander Jones
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While a hyper-introverted genre like blackened folk metal rarely, if ever, gives rise to controversial public figures, John Haughm has consistently pr...
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Each generation has their "gateway" hardcore bands — the bands they saw or heard in their formative years that instantly became the catalyst for a lif...
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It's hard to be a disaffected slacker-rock band in 2018. With just about all of modern society's longest-standing institutions crumbling around us in ...
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Although it may seem blasphemous to doom metal purists, the Liverpool-based "caveman battle doom" trio Conan has graduated beyond the Power of the Rif...
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While heavy music is certainly no stranger to bands with bizarre themes (see: the Ned Flanders-themed death metal band Okilly Dokilly), urine is still...
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Something interesting happens a little over a minute into "The Crone," the lead track on Syracuse-based emo upstarts KVLT Daddy's 2017 EP, "Dreaming i...
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The Long Island thrashers in Extinction A.D. — which is essentially hardcore greats This is Hell with a new guitarist (Ian Cimaglia) — are injecting t...
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While contemporary metalcore is somewhat distanced from its hardcore-adjacent roots (see: From Autumn to Ashes, Eighteen Visions, et al.), it still sh...
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You wouldn't guess it if you've been indoctrinated by any of the country music currently polluting the airwaves, but the genre has a rich history stee...