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A Fire Inside or AFI for short, have been around for the past 18 years unleashing upon the music scene seven LPs to date with their eighth "Crash Love," on the way. But the deal with AFI is a simple known fact, they've never seem to stick out with the same sound for more than a couple of albums. Their first being “Answer That and Stay Fashionable,” in 1995. Then the band went on to release “Very Proud of Ya,” the following year, followed up by a third three years later, “Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Eyes.” Since the earlier creations, AFI has indeed like most bands changed their style to blend in along with the rest of the crowd, j... (read more)

Ahhh, the sweet sound of metalcore.  An overpopulated genre indeed, but those who play metalcore right tend to stick above and beyond the many followers in their pack.  Metalcore vets IT DIES TODAY know how to play the game right, and are making an explosive entrance back into the scene with Lividity.  These guys have already made their mark as one of the strong in metalcore, and it's great to see/hear them back at full force.  Even with new vocalist Jason Wood, their hooks and choruses are still catchy as ever, and the band still knows how to throw it down hard.  IT DIES TODAY has taken their stylistic and well rounded sound, and continues to get stro... (read more)

Deathcore has been done to death.  The majority of bands of this genre mainly focus on how heavy they are, making sure that there are plenty of bass drops and blast beats.  Originality is rare to find in your typical deathcore band.  Whitechapel was one of the pioneers of this now laughable genre, and all of these other bands are trying oh so hard to emulate their sound (Oceano, cough cough).  If you're in a band like Whitechapel, do you try to separate yourself from all of your followers, or do you stick to the sound that made you famous?  They chose to settle somewhere in middle, and they seemed to choose option.   If you were ... (read more)