Kreator - Gods of Violence: Album Review

Kreator releases another album. 

Slayer - South of Heaven: Underrated Album Review

Welcome to “Underrated Album Reviews” were we switch it up a bit by talking positively about an album that doesn’t deserve the hate it gets.

In the metal community, Slayer is just one of those bands were everyone just agrees that they’re good. Slayer being good is in the public conscious like Star Wars is a good movie, no matter how you may end up feeling about it personally. But at their core, I’ve never gotten the excitement about Slayer. Sure, back in high school, when I first discovered Slayer, I thought nothing could be better. Reign In Blood’s energy and speed blew me away upon first listen (even if it doesn’t really hold up today), the speed and technical power of War Ensamble was one of the reasons I picked up a guitar, and South of Heaven is the reason why Slayer still makes sense to me today.

A Series of Unfortunate Events: Season 1 Review

I read “A Series of Unfortunate Events” when I was about 11 years old and at the time I was convinced it was one of the best series I have ever read. Thinking back on it now, I’m positive that if I went back and read all 13 books again, I’d probably be right.

2016 Music Catch Up

Today, we are going to catch up on some of the past LPs and EPs and discuss them in as short of a manor as possible, because I missed a bunch of stuff last year.

Posting Schedule Update

Over the past few months, this blog has run pretty well on one post a week on Fridays. After doing some thinking, I've decided this schedule could use a change.

You see, a common release day for movies, shows, and music is Friday. What that means for this blog is, if it's an article day, I'll already have something prepared and write the review for whatever just came out during the following week. Then there is the more recent reality which is, something comes out, I need a review, then struggle to come up with something competent within 1 day becomes, at best, a rush job and at worst, highly biased and poorly thought out as even the best of us suffer from hype culture.

So to reconcile some of this, posts are now going to released on Mondays. Same time as before, (1 PM) and following the same article/review/article pattern as we've been doing previously. This does mean, the next few posts are going to be a little weird as we transition to a new schedule, but everything will be squared up within a week or so.

So the next few posts will be:

1/20  -  2016 Catch Up
1/27  -  Classic Review
1/30  -  New Review
2/6    -  The Art Of The Opening Scene
2/13  -  New review

So that's the plan for the next few weeks. Hopefully this means my quality of work will increase, I'll post a Record Store Update every now and again, and hopefully this works out for everyone.

See you later and take it easy.

-Eric

The Flaming Lips - Oczy Mlody: Album Review

Pronounced “Ox-ie Mel-o-die”. I had to google it.

Krampus: Quick Review

A movie I missed in 2015, but will now be in my Christmas movie rotation forever.

Dropkick Murphys - 11 Short Stories of Pain & Glory: Album Review

The Dropkick Murphys make an O.K. album.
And that's O.K.
O.K.?

The Great Big Best and Worst Albums of 2016 List

Another year, another wave of music from new bands, old, those we can’t get enough of, and those we wish would stop. So let’s discuss the best and worst albums of 2016. But first, a couple of rules.

Rule 1: Only full original material from 2016, no re-releases or demos. This means all EPs, Singles and LPs from this year are fair game, but not singles for upcoming releases in 2017. This also means no Live albums or Cover albums. Those just don’t count.

Rule 2: An album cannot end up on the “best” list for being just ok, it has to be great or near-perfect. Likewise, albums cannot end up on the “worst” list just for being mediocre. If you are on the “worst” list, you deserve it.

Rule 3: Don’t get hung up on the ranking. All music on the “best” list is good, so do yourself a favor and check everyone out.

OK, let’s begin. 

Record Store Haul: 12/28/2016

So I visited a record store recently (specifically The Sound Garden in Syracuse, NY; give it a look if you're in the area) so why not go over what I picked up?