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CD Review – The Red Chord Fed Through the Teeth Machine Metal Blade Nine years later and the now four-man machine group The Red Chord bring you yet another healthy dose of metal. For almost a decade The Red Chord have never been one to follow the music trends, or change their sound dramatically because “that’s what everyone else is listening too”. They have stayed true to the game, and now releasing their fourth full-length studio album. Fed Through the Teeth Machine , which is th

After dropping the name SCUM and emerging as AMON AMARTH in 1992, the Swedish horde from Stockholm have been on a steady climb in the metal world ever since. Being dubbed as Viking Metal for its fascination with Vikings and 13th Century pre-Christian Norse mythology, AMON AMARTH create original, aggressive-yet-melodic death metal like no other band. With its first full-length release, Once Sent From The Golden Hal l in 1998, AMON AMARTH ’s brand of metal set them apart from their S

R.I.P. Ted Kennedy (not quite related, but the man at least deserves a mention) Karen O premiered her latest stunning single “All Is Love” as part of the soundtrack for the upcoming full length motion picture “Where The Wild Things Are.” Them Crooked Vultures played two new incredibly heavy tracks. Noel Gallagher quits Oasis . The 12 greatest female guitarists . MJ’s death ruled homicide . Pitchfork’s study of mp3 history . A great list by indiescreet of lesser known ban

As a band that’s toured with Dream Theater on “Progressive Nation 2008” , plays their own small-club headlining shows, and will be touring with In Flames in Fall 2009 , Between the Buried and Me is not an unknown band from North Carolina, nor are they new – the sixth full-length album, one of which contains covers of influential bands, will be released on October 27, 2009. The music of Between the Buried and Me has dramatically changed over the years: their self-titled debut in 2002

I’ll confess: I thought the opening ten-or-so second looped sample on this, That Fucking Tank ’s second studio full-length, was something I’d heard on a Beastie Boys album, or at least a hip-hop record of some kind. No. Turns out it’s Reef’s ‘Place Your Hands’ , at about two minutes and fifteen seconds in. The title, ‘It’s Your Letters’, should have been a give away – the TFI Friday segment of the same name opened with a burst of music by… Yup, Reef. The very same song, actually. Hang on… s