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Jake's Short Reviews #14

Posted 01/28/2012 06:15AM by Jacopo ebolarama Olivares

Whitechapel — Recorrupted An odds-and-ends sort of thing, with one new track, “Section 8;” a...

The Tiny Giant Collective Artists

Posted 01/19/2012 08:04AM by Zach Roth

"Tiny Giant (n.) - A completely independent band who earns their fans show by show, flyer by flyer, gas...

The Tiny Giant Artist Collective

Posted 01/18/2012 06:58AM by Zach Roth

Upon reviewing and featuring Those Mockingbirds a few months ago, lead guy Adam Bird asked me if I'd...

Jake's Short Reviews #13

Posted 11/16/2011 07:22AM by Jacopo ebolarama Olivares

Black Tusk — Set the Dial Not breaking away from any precedents, but a solid spin that’s got...

Jake's Short Reviews #12

Posted 11/01/2011 05:50AM by Jacopo ebolarama Olivares

White Willow — Terminal Twilight If you were to cross-breed Porcupine Tree and Bjork you...

Jake's Short Reviews #11

Posted 10/25/2011 10:21AM by Jacopo ebolarama Olivares

Oh, Manhattan — Spiritual Warfare Sort of like a more polished and post-hardcore version of ...

Jake's Short Reviews #10

Posted 10/16/2011 05:33AM by Jacopo ebolarama Olivares

Eldritch — Gaia’s Legacy While I think that Eldritch’s message about global warming and environmental...

Jake's Short Reviews #9

Posted 09/27/2011 10:59AM by Jacopo ebolarama Olivares

Scream — Complete Control Session Listen, this isn’t America’s Hardcore Compilation, and I’m...

Jake's Short Reviews #8

Posted 09/05/2011 05:59AM by Jacopo ebolarama Olivares

Knuckle Up! — Motivation from Misery Our first selection is a pretty decent hardcore record,...

Jake's Short Reviews #7

Posted 08/23/2011 09:42AM by Jacopo ebolarama Olivares

Earth Crisis — Neutralize the Threat Even though 2009’s To the Death (which, to be fair, was...

Breaking Down The Color Spectrum, Volume III

Posted 08/11/2011 05:17AM by Zach Roth

And now for the final three. Indigo and Purple, along with Blue, never get much play from me. I’ll usually...

Breaking Down The Color Spectrum, Volume II

Posted 08/09/2011 01:05PM by Zach Roth

As I’ve worked further and further into The Color Spectrum, I’ve become more entangled with the lyrics...

Breaking Down The Color Spectrum, Volume I

Posted 08/08/2011 09:52AM by Zach Roth

Casey Crescenzo has outdone himself with the release of The Color Spectrum. Writing nine EPs is daunting...

Jake's Short Reviews #6

Posted 07/31/2011 05:27AM by Jacopo ebolarama Olivares

So Hideous, My Love… — To Clasp A Fallen Wish With Broken Fingers To Clasp is, at its heart...

Jake's Short Reviews #5

Posted 07/11/2011 09:33AM by Jacopo ebolarama Olivares

Touché Amoré — Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me Deathwish’s new darlings deliver what...

Jake's Short Reviews #4

Posted 06/21/2011 09:14AM by Jacopo ebolarama Olivares

Priory — Priory I’m actually very surprised at myself for liking this one. At the outset, I was...

Music You May Have Missed

Posted 06/14/2011 10:16AM by Zach Roth

There’s too much damn music out there. In fact, there’s so much damn music that the entire industry is...

Jake's Short Reviews #3

Posted 05/24/2011 10:19AM by Rick Gebhardt

Winterus — In Carbon Mysticism Winterus’ In Carbon Mysticism is a release that exists in a...

Decoy's Summer Movie Preview

Posted 05/19/2011 07:48AM by Dylan Newell

Every summer, countless music and movies are released, giving something to look forward to for pretty...

Jake's Short Reviews #2

Posted 05/10/2011 05:33AM by Jacopo ebolarama Olivares

Armor For The Broken — The Black Harvest What we have here is a solid run of nine tracks that...

Jake's Short Reviews #1

Posted 04/28/2011 08:15AM by Jacopo ebolarama Olivares

So for those of you who absolutely cannot get enough of our full-length reviews section, I present...

Battle of the Bands: Electronic

Posted 04/26/2011 08:52AM by Zach Roth

In honor of Consider Me Dead still topping the overall charts with over 20,000 votes, I’ve decided to...

Battle of the Bands: Alternative

Posted 04/11/2011 09:54AM by Zach Roth

What is alternative music anyway? As nebulous and ill-defined as many genres are, I never find myself...

Battle of the Bands: Experimental

Posted 03/30/2011 11:06AM by Zach Roth

If it isn’t already apparent from my other three Battle of the Bands features, I am a sucker for bands...

Battle of the Bands: Metal

Posted 03/24/2011 01:58PM by Zach Roth

I’ll admit I’m still growing into metal, but I do know that it is probably one of the largest and most...

Sleepers: Part Five

Posted 03/21/2011 09:42AM by Jacopo ebolarama Olivares

The Sleepers series was started as a means to give Decoy space to albums that had slipped under the site’s...

Battle of the Bands: Punk

Posted 03/20/2011 05:59AM by Zach Roth

Punk is the musical backbone to just about everything that I listen to. Punk is directly responsible...

Battle of the Bands: Frontrunners

Posted 03/17/2011 05:55AM by Zach Roth

This year, the Ernie Ball Battle of the Bands is on its fifteenth cycle. This friendly competition has...

Sleepers: Part Four

Posted 02/08/2011 09:29AM by Jacopo ebolarama Olivares

This fourth segment of the Sleepers series will tackle another batch of albums from the past year, 2010...

Sleepers: Part Three

Posted 01/26/2011 10:33AM by Jacopo ebolarama Olivares

Sleepers returns with its third installment. This one will also deal with overlooked releases from the...