Rating: 2/5 Reviewer: Andre Guimond It would be pretty hard to blame Black Mountain for the short-lived Wolfmother and Priestess-fueled psych-metal craze of 2006. Sure, they hit the scene first in 2005 with their well-received eponymous debut, but each group was simply referencing (or aping) the same 70’s material (Zeppelin, Sabbath, etc).
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Rating: 3/5Reviewer: Nathan Atnikov 666 Live is a fans only affair from beginning to end. The CD portion of the CD/DVD set is taken from their concert in Düsseldorf, Germany, where the band is adored as much as they are in Canada.
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Rating: 2/5Released: October 30, 2007Reviewer: Suzanne Goldman The first 45 seconds of the latest offering from Avenged Sevenfold (or A7X, as they’ve become known to fans) holds great promise. But that first track, ‘Critical Acclaim,’ descends so quickly into something so unspectacular that one has to wonder how many original fans this group has managed [...]
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Rating: 3/5Released: October 23, 2007Reviewer: Suzanne Goldman When Serj Tankian of rock-metal band System of a Down announced he would release a solo album, people were skeptical of the direction he would choose – would he take his metal-infused political musings to the next level, upping the ante with louder instruments and grinding vocals, or [...]
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Rating: 2.5/5Released: July 3, 2007Reviewer: Tyrone Castanho Trepidation abounded the moment Silverstein’s latest album, Arrivals & Departures, was slipped into iTunes; there were two matches for the same album, one with the aforementioned title, another entitled ‘Penile Nubilis’. With that said, the third full release from the Burlington band comes to us with a newer [...]
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Rating: 3/5Released: April 3, 2007Reviewer: Tyrone Castanho Daggermouth has been steadily gathering momentum on the melodic punk scene thanks to an incessant thirst for touring. As an independent act signed to Smallman Records, the band has become one of their headlining names and now comes to us with their second full-length record Turf Wars.
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Queens of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme is one of the most difficult-to-read frontmen in all of rock. His aggressive, near-metal instrumentation is usually punctuated by sweetly-sung vocals, occasionally in a lilting falsetto. Those vocals, though, are usually so low in the mix, and so covered in the band’s sludgy rhythm section, that you can barely make out the lyrics. |
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Rating: 3/5Released: March 7, 2007Reviewer: Trent McMartin It’s easy to dismiss The Weirdness, The Stooges first full album of all new material since 1973’s Raw Power, as a major disappointment. Gone is the primal noise and poetic dysfunction that characterized the group’s previous efforts.
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