Writer Archive: Jonathan Anderson
My Ticket Home – To Create a Cure
Clean vocals in metalcore are a cliché that is becoming increasingly frustrating to many metal fans. There are countless bands with a frontman screamer...
Attack Attack! – This Means War
It seems like just yesterday I was sitting at my desk in school, not doing school work. I kept the corner of one eye on the door, keeping watch for teachers,...
Enter Shikari – A Flash Flood of Colour
The best way for a band to grab my attention is by providing me with lyrics that are extremely heartfelt and demonstrated as such by the vocals. Oh, Sleeper...
Scream Out Loud – Live It Up
I approach all new music put in front of me hoping to love it. I want it to make me play it over and over again, and for it to make my top ten. I’m naturally...
Run Kid Run – Patterns
Today I have for you a bit of a change of pace. We’re taking a step back from heaviness, to a little more mellow and simple music. My music tastes are...
Close Your Eyes – Empty Hands and Heavy Hearts
I love Fall; it’s quite easily my favorite season. Multi-color leaves and crisp winds give a brilliant atmosphere. There’s also the days where...
Blessthefall – Awakening
I’m the kind of person that struggles with change. The perfect world for me would be a never-changing one. If everything stays just how it is, it would...
Nothing Til Blood – When Lambs Become Lions
Here I am, in the TNR offices, sitting within the confines of my cubicle, working on my latest assignment from the man upstairs. My “in” folder is...
The Devil Wears Prada – Dead Throne
Sometimes when writing a review you experience several hiccups. Like with this one, I knew it was going to have a lot of views, because…well, it IS The...
A More Artistic View of The Devil Wears Prada’s “Dead Throne”
Darkness loomed as the sun retreated behind the towering trees. Eerie shadows cast on to the Mansion’s walls from flickering torches. A light fog began...
Skies – Bane & Rebirth
This has been the year for Christian metalcore. The Gun Show, Gideon, Sleeping Giant, The Great Commission and August Burns Red have all released an album...
Design The Skyline – Nevaeh
It’s unfair, really, how many amazing bands get unnoticed while mediocre or crap bands get signed. There are several bands that I like who deserve a...
Last Winter – The Heart & The Broken Compass
“I thank you for this pen and ink ammunition. Thank you for the inspiration”, growls August Burns Red vocalist Jake Luhrs in their song “White...
Icon For Hire – Scripted
If I were to list off dyed red hair, skinny jeans, and female, who is the first person that would come to your mind? My guess is that it would be Haley...
Phinehas – thegodmachine
So it was recently my birthday and I was given an Xbox 360. Needless to say, I was stoked. When I haven’t been working or doing other essentials in life,...
As They Burn – Aeon’s War
Let me just start this off by apologizing to the nation of France. France is a country which I, and countless other Americans, have ridiculed on a regular...
Dynasty – Truer Living with a Youthful Vengeance
I’m picky when it comes to listening to hardcore. I either like it or I don’t, and there’s usually not much of an explainable reason why. For example:...
Of Mice & Men – The Flood
In terms of drama, if one were to put Of Mice & Men on a scale of one to The Days of our Lives, you might go off that scale and land somewhere around...