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Anvil - "Hope In Hell"
I find it almost unbelievable that Hope In Hell is Anvil's 15th release to date. This is a band that achieved a small amount of success and despite all obstacles, has continually trucked onward. Most bands would have thr…
Madlife - "21st Century Megalomaniac" [EP]
21st Century Megalomaniac is the newest (and fourth) release from the Los Angeles-based industrial hard rock act Madlife. The EP is a catchy rock-driven album loaded with enough groove to keep you moving on the dance flo…
Lawnmower - "Whack Yer Brain" [EP]
From the infectiously propulsive "Team Spirit", Whack Yer Brain's garage-pop peaks within its first three minutes and although the other tracks have their own subjacent charms, they leave the opener to do all the work. I…
Four Nights Gone - "Resilience" [EP]
Wow! I love finding good new music to listen to. One of the best perks of reviewing music for PureGrainAudio is finding gems like this one. I had never before heard of the band, but their newest release, Resilience, is a…
Blood Ceremony - "The Eldritch Dark"
Blood Ceremony are a bit of an oddity. Since the band's debut they've been associated with the metal, and most specifically doom genres. It's an oddity as most of the time the band's style has been more reminiscent of Je…
Surgeon - "Chemical Reign"
Chemical Reign may be Surgeon’s second full-length release, but I was not familiar with them when I sat down to give it a spin. "The Creeple" opens things up with a somewhat doomy-sounding vibe that really did not peak m…
The Mascaron - "Beginnings" [EP]
The Beginnings EP is the latest release from the UK and Latvia-based progressive metal band, The Mascaron. Simply put, I found this disc to be an interesting and ambitious undertaking. I say that because The Mascaron com…
Begrime Exemious - "Wasteland of Damnation" [EP]
I only got into Begrime Exemious when I heard their full-length, Visions of the Scourge. While the album didn't exactly reinvent the wheel, it was still an extremely solid release. As you can probably tell by the band's…
Careers In Science - "Cowards" [EP]
Cowards is the sophomore release from the Toronto-based, self-proclaimed nerdy, frenetic punk band Careers in Science. While I am new to the Careers In Science camp, I was pleasantly surprised by what I found. This new o…
Tony Saxon - "So God Damn Over It"
This one is a bit mellower than the discs I am asked to review, but it's an interesting one nonetheless. So God Damn Over It is a folk record plain and simple. There are no bells and whistles here, just a collection of w…
Death Ray Vision - "Get Lost Or Get Dead" [EP]
Reading like a Who’s Who of the Massachusetts Metal Scene, Death Ray Vision is a side-project featuring members of New Wave Of American Heavy Metal stalwarts Shadow’s Fall and Massachusetts metalcore titans Killswitch En…
In Chase For The Sky - "Blank Faces" [EP]
Blank Faces is a punishing and brutally heavy album from the band In Chase For The Sky. The EP opens with "Anesthetic" and from there rips through 5 mind-numbingly heavy tracks designed to obliterate your ear drums. This…
Attica's Ashes - "Flickers of Dawn" [EP]
I think the best way to describe the new release from Attica's Ashes is a combination of Horror punk infused with a healthy dose of metal. The first comparison that comes to mind has to be The Brains, a better known act…
Teethmarks - "Feral" [EP]
Sometimes you just need a band like Teethmarks to come along so you can remember how nasty and grotty music can be. Feral is the work of four blokes from Toronto, Canada who you’re more likely to find passed out in a pud…
Frightened Rabbit - "Pedestrian Verse"
Born from the typically Scottish complex of drinks and self-deprecation, with an inevitable dash of Christianity, Frightened Rabbit’s fourth full-length finds them at their beaming best. Sharp and smart, glistening under…
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