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Our Last Night: We Will All Evolve
2010 may mark the last socially acceptable year of the clean singer/screamer tandem. By the end of this decade, most listeners have grown to appreciate music with more ...
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Keane: Night Train
Progressive-pop Brits Keane arrive on the Night Train, bringing with them 8 new tracks. Keane does not fail to impress with their new EP, with its release it ...
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Wrath and Rapture: Wrath and Rapture
With a name like Wrath and Rapture, you need to be seriously epic. I am glad to say that upon reviewing their self-titled 10 track EP, I can ...
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Walter Schreifels: An Open Letter To The Scene
In keeping with the Hardcore climate in a sense, Walter Schreifels makes his introduction into our little corner of the internet here at Mind Equals Blown. Schreifels, as ...
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Album Reviews 7
letlive. : Fake History
Growing as a band while avoiding the scene bullshit around them, letlive.’s third record, Fake History, begs to break apart the past 10 years of metal and fuse ...
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Album Reviews 3
Cancer Bats: Bears, Mayors, Scraps, & Bones
While I have introduced myself as a Folk listener, that does not mean I have a “wild side” in my music tastes, which brings me to my first ...
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Album Reviews 6
As I Lay Dying: The Powerless Rise
With An Ocean Between Us, As I Lay Dying expanded metalcore to new places. Now with The Powerless Rise, the group has comfortably settled into a signature sound ...
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Four Year Strong: Enemy of the World
Enemy of the World is the newest release by Worcester hardcore/pop-punk hybrid Four Year Strong. The album cuts to the chase with the first chorus of the first ...
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Foxy Shazam: Foxy Shazam
Foxy Shazam is back, in their entire Queen-esque camp splendor. More flamboyantly than before with even more catchy hooks, Foxy is going to seduce your ears and make ...
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Periphery: Periphery
After almost four tediously long years of anticipation and internet hype, Misha Mansoor’s technical, 7-string mayhem of a mathcore record comes to birth in the form of Periphery’s ...
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Album Reviews 3
Circa Survive: Blue Sky Noise
Following their 2007 sophomore attempt entitled On Letting Go, Circa Survive went back to the studio last year and recording their next full-length record, Blue Sky Noise. The ...
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Bury Tomorrow: Portraits
Embracing the same metalcore aesthetic used by countless acts through the ‘00s, Southampton’s Bury Tomorrow continue to clean it up in predictable, albeit well-crafted, style. Portraits contains every ...
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Album Reviews 3
Coheed and Cambria: Year of the Black Rainbow
Ever since their formation (or renaming, if you want to get technical) in 2001, Coheed and Cambria has been wooing audiences across the country and across the world ...
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Album Reviews 7
Sky Eats Airplane: The Sound Of Symmetry
Sky Eats Airplane has given us a taste of their new lineup with, The Sound of Symmetry, a short 3 song EP. Ever since the departure of Jerry ...
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Veil of Maya: [id]
Veil of Maya broke out onto the deathcore scene with 2008’s The Common Mans Collapse, which helped them build a massive fan base, and prove, to many critics ...
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Album Reviews 5
Upon A Burning Body: The World Is Ours
Upon a Burning Body’s debut album is, to put it in lesser words, brutal. The music they’ve put out is far from stale, with an ideal mix of ...
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Look Mexico: To Bed To Battle
After some minor success coming from a few EPs their first album, This Is Animal Music, Look Mexico took to the studio again a few years later to ...
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Album Reviews 2
Isles & Glaciers: The Hearts Of Lonely People
If you don’t know who’s in this band by now, you haven’t paid attention. Rather than wasting precious word count up front, we’ll gradually retort the roster and ...
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Free Music Alert – Canterbury: Thank You
I’m so glad I follow the Drop Dead Clothing’s site blog, or else I would have never come across my newest obsession: Canterbury. When DD! posted “Gloria,” the ...
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K Será: Me Before Women And Children
Hailing from Sacramento, CA, indie rockers K Será have a theatrical flair to their tunes that puts listeners on a indie-musical roller coaster. To round out the ...
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Concert Review: The Used/Atreyu (1/28 @ House of Blues: Anaheim)
Slowly the lights fade, the curtain is opening and the sounds of cheering, screaming and whistling are growing louder by the second. Bodies in the crowd are swaying ...
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Chelsea Grin: Desolation of Eden
Have you ever listened to metal so brutal that it potentially has the ability to rupture your organs just from listening to it? Well, if an experience such ...
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Dessa: A Badly Broken Code
I shouldn't admit this, but I haven't purchased a CD in about two years. Say what you want, but if there was one album that I was going ...
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Punk Goes Pop 3
Written by Guest Writer Wil Ray Before I could drive myself, I was always subjugated to listening to whatever my sisters wanted to listen to. They always outnumbered ...
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Dear Jack: The Andrew McMahon Documentary
Just moments ago, I finished watching Dear Jack, the documentary about Jack’s Mannequin/Something Corporate mastermind Andrew McMahon’s battle with leukemia. I’m no film critic, so we’ll be a ...
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Them Crooked Vultures: Them Crooked Vultures
In a musical generation that seems to be stuck in a “funk”, I think I can speak for everyone when I say that it’s time for a band ...
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Album Reviews 5
Tactical Thinking: Too Broke To Go Solo
Ladies and gentleman, let’s give it up for our friends across the pond. The British hiphop scene is blowing up with talent right now and as a seasoned ...
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Album Reviews 5
Say Anything: Say Anything
What happens after the happy ending seems to be a mystery to music critics. After Say Anything frontman Max Bemis found the right mixture of meds and ...
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The Almost: Monster Monster
Returning with their highly anticipated sophomore release is Underoath drummer Aaron Gillespie’s side project, The Almost. After 2007’s Southern Weather debuted at 39 on the U.S. Billboard, the ...
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Album Reviews 3
Free Music Alert- Life On Repeat: As I Grew
You cannot go wrong with free music, and Equal Vision knows that. In celebration of the label’s signing of Life On Repeat, the band has posted their entire ...
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LIGHTS: The Listening
LIGHTS (yes, that is her actual name), a new, up and coming artist with Synthpop beats and catchy melodies recently released her debut full-length, The Listening. The album ...
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Album Reviews 2
The Black Dahlia Murder: Delflorate
The epic band from Waterford, Michigan known as The Black Dahlia Murder released their new full length album, Delflorate, off of Metal Blade Records on September 15, 2009. ...
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Blessthefall: Witness
Returning 2 years later, Witness shows Blessthefall's dedication and that they won't be left in the dust of their peers. Filled with heavy guitars and the signature vocals ...
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Album Reviews 2
Mayday Parade: Anywhere But here
I know you all have anxiously waited for the chance to grade Mayday Parade's new album, if only to snidely criticize the Jason-less follow-up to 2007's A Lesson ...
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Kill Hannah: Wake Up the Sleepers
Wake Up the Sleepers is something to pop in if you are getting ready to go out, but it’s nothing to be taken seriously. ...
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Paramore: Brand New Eyes
The follow-up to Riot! is finally here, and it doesn't disappoint. ...
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Shadows Fall: Retribution
After the muted response given to the melody driven Threads Of Life, Shadows Fall's 6th studio album creates the full-on thrash record they needed. ...
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Every Time I Die: New Junk Aesthetic
Returning to thrash and rage through another record are groovy metalcore rockers Everytime I Die with New Junk Aesthetic. ...
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Saosin: In Search of Solid Ground
Saosin surprised us all and actually released a second full-length album. Check out what Jack has to say about In Search Of Solid Ground ...
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The Used: Artwork
Four albums in and this Utah quartet is no where near finished bringing their hardcore meets pop approach to emo. ...
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fun.: Aim and Ignite
Nate Ruess storms back to the forefront of the indie-pop scene with his newest, high energy, (pun-intended) fun band: fun. ...
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La Dispute: Somewhere At The Bottom Of The River Between Vega And Altair
Bordering on one of the most overlooked rising names in post-hardcore is La Dispute, a five-piece from Michigan bearing a resemblance of early mewithoutyou. While this style is ...
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Album Reviews 5
Jonny Craig: A Dream Is A Question You Don’t Know How To Answer
Coming from a musical background including such heavy hitting names in post-hardcore like Dance Gavin Dance and Emarosa along with guest spots on several gorgeous songs and filling ...
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Concert Review – Warped Tour (7/24 @ Orlando)
Warped Tour is a very unique experience, unlike any concert you’ve ever been to. The majority of fans have a strong love/hate relationship with the event. On one ...
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The Word Alive: Empire
The Word Alive release their debut EP "Empire", creating something catchy, heavy, emotional and epic...all at the same time. ...
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August Burns Red: Constellations
August Burns Red has been in the front of the metalcore pack since Messengers, and these Pennsylvanian rockers want it to stay that way. Their latest release, Constellations, ...
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Concert Review – The Artery Foundation Across The Nation Tour (@ The Glasshouse)
Only a day after Warped Tour, the Artery Foundation Across The Nation Tour came to the Glasshouse in Pomona, CA. With Emarosa, Our Last Night, I See ...
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Broadway: Kingdoms
Gaining ground on the ever so over populated post-hardcore scene rises Florida’s own Broadway presenting you with their debut full length, Kingdoms. As you place the headphones upon ...
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I Never Heard The Bullet: Moving With Grace That Men Despise
As of late, I have become a huge advocate of EPs over full-length releases. It seems to be far easier for today’s bands to pack a huge punch ...
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Dance Gavin Dance: Happiness
The gentlemen of Dance Gavin Dance are back at it again a mere 10 months after the release of their self-titled album this past August. While it may ...
