The Devil Wears Prada is back, bringing ‘the heavy’ and pleasing fans as they always have.  An interesting idea for a concept album, Zombie EP is the band’s idea of a fun and creative project – and surely something the scene will eat up.  It’s been a pretty low-profile project, adding to the eeriness of the album itself, minus the early release of the track “Outnumbered,” which was meant to draw attention and give fans a taste of what they’ve made.  Not too much has changed musically, aside from the more frequent use of sound effects and sampling.  If not for the theme, I think that the five tracks could’ve easily been added to the last full-length. Read More »

With Monument, Miss May I has attempted to refine their sound and pull things together a bit more.  Great vocals, both clean and screamed, are present.  With Levi Benton’s wide range being used in layers at times, they have found a strength they can rely on.  From the first track, “Our Kings,” it becomes apparent that there are going to be far more clean vocals than those in Apologies Are For The Weak.  I remember first listening to “Relentless Chaos” upon its early release, crossing my fingers that the rest of the album would be different.  I should’ve known there was not much hope. Read More »

St. Louis natives In the Midst of Lions have come up with some great work for their sophomore release, The Heart of Man. Greatness is expected of any band that signs to Facedown Records, and ITMOL don’t let the label down by any means. Read More »

At the beginning of summer the Canadian based 5-piece Structures released their debut EP All Of  The Above (which we reviewed here). Drummer Andrew McEnaney was kind enough to speak with us and let us know what the band is up to. Make sure to catch them on their upcoming tour in August with The Holly Springs Disaster and Architects.

Mind Equals Blown: Would you care to give some insight on the writing for the new album?

Structures: We havent technically started “writing” yet. Spee Brendon and I will usually get together and write sections then tie them together to make the songs feel and sound like a whole. For the new album though, we will be writing songs as a whole instead of sections like we did on our EP. Right now were just touring as much as we can and trying to meet as many people as possible so writing has taken the back seat for now. Read More »

One of my most anticipated albums dropped lately. That’s right, the new The Eyes Of A Traitor album Breathless was just released via Listenable Records. Now, this band is probably not in many people’s iTunes library, but this five piece UK hardcore entourage blew my mind the second I heard them, and they have yet to disappoint. Read More »

With two albums down, it was time for A Plea For Purging to either sink or swim. Both A Critique of Mind and Thought and Depravity received positive feedback, and as it turns out, APFP continues to please their fans with The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. Read More »

A little over a year ago In Fear And Faith released their debut album, Your World On Fire, a generic post-hardcore, dual-vocal, piano-laced album, which was nothing we hadn’t heard before. Since the release, the band has been consistently writing, and touring. After going through a year of constant shows, endless traveling and non-stop experiences, they returned to the studio to record another album. That album is Imperial, and I’m sad to say…absolutely nothing has changed. Read More »

Whitechapel – a band cherished by many, but hated by just as many, if not more. Surely preparing to terrorize and torment fans of We The Kings and similar bands at Warped Tour this summer, we have been blessed with some new material to mosh and headbang to, as Whitechapel will likely try to attract new fans, yet satisfy the old.  Although they have been looked down upon since the beginning for their gruesome lyrics, exploitation of breakdowns (which some consider to be BR00TAL), and what was deemed by some as “lack of musical talent,” employing their down-tuned seven string guitars.  A New Era of Corruption brings the deep gutturals of past albums, shrieking yet powerful highs, and shows the members’ desire to incorporate more melodic ability as they struggle to escape the title of “deathcore.” Read More »

I Declare War breaks through with its first album on the newly formed Artery Recordings, Malevolence. If anyone knows anything about I Declare War, its that they tend to ‘bring the heavy’ as some might say…and that is definitely the case with this record. This album doesn’t fuck around in the slightest. No catchy chorus, no synth breakdown, just really, really heavy music.  To say it bluntly, Malevolence is really fucking brutal. Read More »

The new Parkway Drive song ‘Sleepwalker’ can be streamed from their myspace right now. Parkway will release Deep Blue on July 29th. Check it out and get excited!