Norris – The Great White North
By Jason Wellwood It’s not easy breathing new life into a stale genre like metalcore and no one, I mean NO ONE, has put out something as catchy and punishing as Thunder Bay’s Norris in a long time....
View ArticleSylosis – Edge of the Earth
By Rob Kachluba Coming out nowhere a few years back these young lads from England known as Sylosis released a monster debut of precise razor sharp melodic metalcore that raised quite a few eyebrows...
View ArticleAll Else Fails – The Oracle, What Was, Is and Could Have Been
By Jason Wellwood I’ve been a fan of All Else Fails for awhile now, their progressive approach to metal and intelligent, environmentally conscious lyrics have always felt refreshing. Each release...
View ArticleThe Return of… Kevi Metal’s Rimshots (August 2012 edition)
By Kevi Metal Ok, so it’s been a while since I did one of these, but I’ve been busy with that whole trying to make a living while remaining true to one’s ideals nonsense. Anyone got wind of a good job...
View ArticleBornBroken – The Healing Powers of Hate
By Matt Hinch From the Canadian Mecca of metal, Montreal, comes upstart antagonists of aggression BornBroken and their debut The Healing Powers of Hate. From the opening moments of lead track “Can’t...
View ArticleSix of Swords – Polar Vortex EP
Six of Swords is a five-piece band from Toronto, Ontario. They put out an exciting demo in 2013 which was filled with the type of extreme music cuts that all brutal death metal fans would enjoy diving...
View ArticleMad Trapper – Dead Living
Mad Trapper is a four-piece band from Toronto and this is their second full length. On Kill Us, Start Anew, which some would say was very popular in the metalcore scene in Toronto, the band...
View ArticleFalse Flag – Nest of Vipers
False Flag‘s Nest of Vipers is an excellent EP that doesn’t outstay it’s welcome. Four tracks of prime groove metal. Reference points are Lamb of God, Exhorder, and of course, Pantera. What gives this...
View ArticleThy Kingdom Slum – A History of Dissent *CANADIAN*
Man, “Century” by Lodown was probably one of my most-played songs back when I was on CKLN. This catchy, groovy, heavy rock number had a few listeners asking me “Dude, who the heck was that?” But...
View ArticleIntegrity & Krieg Split
Integrity and Krieg join up for a brutal, crushing split following the release of Integrity’s critically acclaimed 2017 album, Howling, For the Nightmare Shall Consume. The split, running 23 minutes in...
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