CD Review
Cold Sweat
Record Label:
Sanctuary Records
Review by
Aaron ManogueSeptember 2011
The thrash metal EP Cold Sweat by Atomkraft is filled with shredding guitar work and dark lyrics. If you’re a fan of hellacious solos and extremely impressive guitar work, this is the EP for you. If you’re a thrash metal fan, the song “Dead Again” will be your favorite by far. It’s a one minute and thirty-nine second concussion of lightning fast guitar guided by the furious beats of the drummer, accompanied by the bellowed growls of the vocalist. One thing I really like about it is that unlike other thrash metal vocals, is that you can understand them! This doesn’t mean they are weak by any means, because the vocalist still kicks your ass. If this song doesn’t make you want to kick some ass in a mosh pit, check your pulse.
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CD Review
Real Knives
Record Label:
Real Knives
Review by
Sal SerioSeptember 2011
Remember those friends you had in high school, the ones your parents would always hassle you for hanging around with? Those guys that were so rad to hang and get your kicks with, but inevitably always got your ass into some kind of predicament? Real Knives are like if those guys actually got motivated and organized enough to start a rock band. I’m not sure why. But this band is trouble. I can just tell.
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CD Review
Dreams Come True
Record Label:
Terrible Records
Review by
John NoydSeptember 2011
As the producer for recent ventures from The Dirty Projectors and The Morning Benders and as producer, bass-player and back-up singer for Grizzly Bear, Chris Taylor has often found himself behind the scenes.
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CD Review
Encounter
Record Label:
Blood Union Records
Review by
Sal SerioAugust 2011
One of Madison’s newest purveyors of metal mayhem, My Fair Share is a juggernaut of head banging fury. Hans Koyen summons his ominous vocal-bark from somewhere dank, deep, and dark within him. Fortuitously, there’s some fun and sarcasm sprinkled throughout this 5-song mini-album, so the listener doesn’t get overwhelmed by a brooding cloud of doom. Glimpses of life in the pit, on the stage, and at the bar are all represented in the throbbing, campy, rocker “The Show”. Finale “Society’s Punishment” adds legitimacy to it’s solid street cred (initially included on MFS’s debut demo), which is more than appropriate. This song has enough accessibility and potential that it should definitely be pushed as a single. Bass player Erik Wykd’s lyrics are intense but insightful, and helping the radio cause is the fact that all of MFS’s recorded lyrical content is profanity-free.
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CD Review
Inn Cinema
Record Label:
Inn Cinema
Review by
Sal SerioAugust 2011
Rasheed Thomas’ singing brings a quality to inn Cinema that’s way poppier than most music of the solid-rock arena, almost if Ben Harper got into a metal mood, or if Lenny Kravitz took his harder-edged material to the next black leather boot-heeled step. To his credit, Rasheed is emotive without even a whisper-hint of wussy emo, and rocker tough without being macho testosterones.
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CD Review
Step Into It
Record Label:
Funktion
Review by
Sal SerioJuly 2011
Ooohhhh yeaahhh, I feel the disco inferno welling up inside of me. The Funktion is giving me some serious happy feet, that’s for sure. These horn-happy R&B groove merchants from Kalamazoo will fill your dance floor prescription, and then some! Pick up this CD, open it up, and then “Step Into It”! Player attire not required, but recommended. If you’ve got a jones for the heyday of Prince, Kool & The Gang, and newbie-funk like Kings Go Forth, then this music will cure all your ills.
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