Mind Equals Blown

Giddy as I unzip the mysterious blue folder on my desktop that contains the new Attack Attack! album This Means War, I ponder a few things: Which album will this be most comparable to? How much synth will be included? Will I still be a fan after this? Why does it take so long to

In music, a lot of time is spent carefully perfecting an album; producers, mixers, engineers – what have you – spend hours, days, months weeding out the little imperfections before compiling a finished product and showing it to the band/artist in question. But has music become too perfect, at least from a production standpoint? I

Set up a scenario in your head where either your boss at your job, your “friend,” or someone else of moderate importance has wronged you. Now put together a soundtrack of cataclysmic anger to vent to. My friends, and fellow consumers, behold: Like Moths to Flames‘ first LP, titled When We Don’t Exist, is the

It has become quite the standard in the metalcore world that any band that releases records annually tends to be one of those bands that’s more about quantity than quality. A Plea for Purging is not one of those bands. Although they only brought us their last record The Marriage of Heaven and Hell about a year

In Fear And Faith’s Symphonies EP was, overall, a step in the right direction. Its heavy-but-also-kind-of-soft approach made for an interesting and refreshing experience. Of course, they have always been superior to most of their heavier label mates, especially in the creativity department. The question still remained however, even after the EP: Where do they

It hasn’t even been a year, but the British metalcore group Architects is back and in the studio again, and this time they’ve whipped up a song titled “Devil’s Island.” I thoroughly enjoyed the band’s past works, especially The Here And Now, so I figured I’d check it out, and I’m glad I did. This

MEB Staffer Austin Gordon recently caught up with Shane Blay of metalcore heavyweight Oh, Sleeper. He discusses their upcoming tour, details about their newest record, ghetto Wal-Mart cookouts, and more. MEB: When does the tour start with Greeley Estates and Ten After Two? Shane: It starts this coming Thursday, the 27th in Little Rock. I

With Hundredth’s debut release When Will We Surrender, I didn’t really think too much of them. It seemed that they were simply following the footpath that other metalcore bands have set and didn’t branch out of the cookie cutter trend. Well, on their latest album Let Go, they haven’t really changed that approach; nonetheless, they