Let’s flashback and take a look at the album that took Ryan’s innocence.

A part of my childhood that, for some reason I vividly remember, is my mother looking at me and my best friend, seated in the backseat of my family's car, going through the drive-thru at McDonalds, hearing me and my best friend blast The Black Parade in the back of the car through my mothers stereo and screeching along to the lyrics. At that time, this album was my exposure to the world of heavier music, and I ... read more

I need a shower.

This thing, when it clicks, is a super dense and foreboding project. It's a dark ambient album that slowly draws you in, setting itself nicely on it's checkered laden table, and devours you whole with it's distorted and strange soundscape. At barely half an hour, it comes in, takes you into it's strange weird world and spits you right back out. It's almost like the music you'd hear on the radio of a post-apocalyptic radio station that's long been dead, and you're trying to ... read more

Too long

is gonna be the day that they gonna throw it back to you

Goddamn!

Deftones are one of the few bands that consistently impress and are legitimately one of the most unique and consistent metal bands to come out from the 90s. Every release that they have made has constantly moved their sound forward in unique and interesting ways, and this new single is no exception!

Not only is it one of shoegazy tracks they have released in a good while (he says, even when Gore exists) but it's as atmospheric as it is catchy. The riffs sound bright and peppy, while ... read more

(THE BUCKET LIST PART 6IX)

...Fuck it, this is just good!

This will be the first Bucket List record I've looked at where I don’t have a lot of history with the album in question. Like, at all. Glassjaw, if I'm being frank, didn’t garner a lot of interest in me when it was first shown to me. A band I had never heard of before with an album I'd never heard of before, with the only reason I'm even listening to the album being off of praise from word of mouth of my peers and off of a ... read more

BAND BINGE: ARCTIC MONKEYS (PART 5IVE OF 12ELVE)

...Wait, THIS is the album that’s the most boring album to grace boringville? THIS?!

Maybe I should back up a bit and do some background before I delve deep. Last time we saw the British Boys, they were winning, and winning hard. Their explosive blend of punk, rock and pop sped past at unfathomable speeds on ‘Favorite Worst Nightmare’, and people were just starting to catch up. More beady eyes were on Arctic Monkeys than ever ... read more

OK, so this might come out of nowhere, but I swear to Sweet Jesus I need to get this off my chest.

This song is by far, without the doubt in my mind, the single most overplayed track in the history of New Zealands advertising career. Literally, every car commercial, every movie trailer and every campaign on the history of The Middle Earth contains the song 'Bliss' by Th' Dudes.

Everytime I hear these Branded White Middle Aged Slackers inherently talking about having 'FuN' and 'bEiNg fReE' ... read more

BAND BINGE: THE STROKES (PART 16XTEEN OF 21ENTYONE)

Goddamn, y'all do not like this thing huh?

While this is an extremely brief and straight forward release from the band at only three tracks and a remix from Fabrizio Moretti, this is a pretty decent project from front to back! Clearly an attempt to tide fans over until the next full length project (and potentially an apology due to the lukewarm reception of Comedown Machine), the band decide to just release three extremely good tracks, all ... read more

Neck breaking intensifies.

Avatar, when they were first coming into my musical peripherals, were one of the fewn ‘classic metal’ revival bands that to me made sense. Not only did they have the crazy clown theatrics, aggressive energy and pure unbridled fun to pull off that solo heavy sound effectively, but they also were esteemed song writers in their own rights. Avatar, as goofy and stupid as they are, were still cranking out great music, from ‘Hail the Apocalypse’ to ... read more

(THE BUCKET LIST PART 6IX)

I gotta confess something to everyone before we start. It's taken a long look of self reflection to come to this conclusion, but I feel like this is an important statement to make going forward. OK. Here it goes. Deep breath in.

I like musicals.

I know. Shock horror, the town is aflame. The guy who tends to write borderline fanfiction on the site is a fan of musical theatre, who would have guessed!. I know an account on AOTY saying that they are a fan of musical ... read more

BAND BINGE: ARCTIC MONKEYS (PART 4OUR OF 12ELVE)

I’m a puppet, and I think this album is controlling me to love this thing.

The Last Shadow Puppets, if I'm being honest, has been an act that I've never really given all that much notice. Being one of the bands only solo projects to come to life (aside from another piece of garbage we will get into later), this sees the groups frontman, Alex Turner, pair up with The Rascals Miles Kane (in one of the most bromance-esq relationships ever to ... read more

BAND BINGE: THE STROKES (PART 15FTEEN OF 21ENTYONE)

This new skin is getting real loose.

This record, in paper, should be good, or at the very least decent. This is, apparently, a power pop/hard rock band formed by Strokes Guitarist Nick Valebsi, with members from The Willowz, The Rondelles and Gaurds, with influences from The Cars, to Elvis Costello, and it's produced by Josh fucking Homme? Even withen the mediocre context of a lot of The Strokes solo work, this on paper has to work. Right? ... read more

*clears throat* HEY! YOU!

YOU LIKE LOUD, SCARY, IN YOUR FACE MUSIC? YOU LIKE BOMBS, DEATH AND DISEASES? YOU LIKE KILLING MEN, WOMEN, AND CHILDREN?

WELL? DO YOU?

THEN GUESS FUCKING TITTY HOPPING PIGSKINNING WHAT?!

ZILLA-FUCKING-KAMI AND SOS-GODDAMN-PISSING-MULA (SLEAZY!) HAVE MADE ANOTHER FUCKING SHIT ON THE TABLE, IN THE FORM OF A TOXIC BOOGALOO MIXTAPE!

WE GONNA STOMP ON BABIES AND STAB GRANNIES AND SMASH TEETH ON PAVEMENT BECAUSE THIS IS 10 TRACKS AND 18 MINUTES OF PURE, CONCENTRAITED ... read more

'Welcome to Chiko's Bar! What would you like to drink!'.

The year is 1997. A man is seated at a bar, face pensive and wrinkled. The room he has found himself in is covered in tacky 80s memorabilia, from outdated sports helmets to a framed and (somehow) autographed picture of famed TV Star Alf. On the walls and windows are neon signs, movie posters and overpriced drinks for all the eye to see, supported by a brown brick frame work. For the man at the bar, it was a technicolored hellscape, ... read more

If there's something that 2020 was missing out on, it was Depression!

Fontaines D.C. are a group that I absolutely love what they have put out, including the in your face and fun as hell debut record 'Dogrel' that feels like if Joy Division was made in the modern age. They make post punk music for kids to both cry and punch walls to, and by god do they do it well. So, to say I was excited for this new album was an understatement! I was so goddamn hyped for this thing!

However, I did have my ... read more

This sounds like Sonic.

Ok thanks I'm dead.

BAND BINGE: ARCTIC MONKEYS (PART 3HREE OF 12ELVE)

Writers block is a bitch, huh?

I'll try to describe my 'problem' with writers block i'm facing without sounding too much of a pretentious man crying for help for the third time this week. Boo ho me, I know. And look, I know these emotional reviews (not to write them off completely, if you want to open up in your writing then go for it if your comfortable) can sometimes read as people trying to reach for something to grasp on that's greater ... read more

Jesus Christ.

OK so put your feet in my shoes. I'm sitting in my house, enjoying another Discord call with some AOTY Buddies. It was going pretty well, some jokes were told, some memes were said and I was pretty happy just chilling out with my friends. At some point when talking about our favorite releases from the year, fellow user @CLJesse pointed out this album as their favorite. And so, I decided to chuck this album on in the call to see what it was like.

Cut to me 10 minutes in, I ... read more