Writer Archive: Evan Roper
Early Graves – Goner
Early Graves is a band to arise out of the ashes of a tech-metal band Apiary. At some point, Apiary’s last lineup realized that they were not the same...
Black Tusk – Taste the Sin
Savannah is a small southern town that time forgot. Isolated in antiquity and surrounded by swamp and a lot of nothing, next to nowhere, the setting provides...
Black Breath – Heavy Breathing
There has been a fair amount of buzz for this obscure NW band. And for good reason: Black Breath’s Heavy Breathing album is a surprisingly direct, yet...
Sick of It All – Based on a True Story
In the fickle world of underground aggressive music and specifically that of hardcore, there are bands that transcend being just another band or just another...
Bison B.C. – Dark Ages
There are certain things that contribute to this band’s near-inexplicable awesomeness. For starters, their name implies a big woolly animal that...
Destinity – XI Reasons To See
Destinity is a melodic metal band out of Lyon, France with four albums already in their discography, their fifth album XI Reasons To See (Eleven Reasons...
Immolation – Majesty and Decay
Immolation has been around for a while, a long while. The band has earned veteran status after forming in the late 80s and persevering through line up...
Eryn Non Dae. – Hydra Lernaia
I’ll admit that upon hearing a band is from France, I am a bit skeptical. A brief search through the mental registry of metal bands under ‘France’...
Annotations of an Autopsy – The Reign of Darkness
From across the pond something has been brewing. UK’s Annotations of an Autopsy’s Nuclear Blast release The Reign of Darkness is an album with...
Wrench In The Works – Decrease/Increase
Wrench in the Works is a four-piece, noisy, Christian metalcore outfit hailing from Hartford, Connecticut. Their 2010 release Decrease/Increase is a metalcore...