Mind Equals Blown

Tom Waits. It’s a name known well by more seasoned individuals, be they weathered by the greater music community or life itself. It’s a name not enough people – especially young people – know and praise. It’s also a name that begins eye-rolling sentences which end with something along the lines of “for his food”

Remember when your one friend who played bass in high school managed to drunkenly pluck out the Seinfeld theme during that one party? That was pretty epic, right brah? Evan Brewer‘s Alone is just like that – if you stretched out the Seinfeld theme to roughly half an hour, laced your bro’s drink with a

Here at Mind Equals Blown, we strive for professionalism. At least, I do. That is why I am not going to do a rum-simmered, pirate-voice video/audio review of Pirate Metal band Alestorm and their latest release, Back Through Time. That won’t stop me from getting  a little Captain in me, however, as I tell ye

Would you ever expect a corporate entity to sincerely take interest in the music community, let alone underground metal? That’s what the toaster car company Scion has done. On top of festivals with credible rosters and no-name band promoting, Scion A/V also distributes whole EPs and albums for free, including Enslaved‘s latest offering, The Sleeping

Long story short, I’m in a bad mood. Mostly first world problems, but still enough to leave me in dire need of catharsis. Fortunately, death metal giants Hate Eternal have dropped Phoenix Amongst The Ashes on my doorstep like a bloody hammer. So for the next 40 minutes or so, the whole world can just

There’s this thing with metal and medieval themes and imagery. Some bands, like Germany’s Blind Guardian, manage to harness Arthurian legends and Tolkien tales like a mighty steed. Farther north, you’ll find the likes of Amon Amarth and Moonsorrow evoke their viking ancestors through, respectively, bleakly stoic riffing and tragically beautiful compositions. Then there is

A lot of milestones have been thrown around lately in the Motorhead camp. Let’s look at the numbers: the band has been around for over 35 years, only now getting the mainstream recognition they have deserved since being credited as one of the godfathers of speed metal. Their latest record, The World Is Ours, was released

It seems like years since the last time I heard from Becoming the Archetype. The initial reason being I was turned off by whatever bits and pieces I was exposed to, and then just never having the motivation to give them another chance. Well, here we are a year or two later, and as one