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Lee Rochester
Writer and Founderlee@thenewreview.net
Hometown: Atlanta, GA (now in Myrtle Beach, SC)
Favorite Bands: Machine Head, Meshuggah, 2 Ton Predator, Twelve Tribes, Carcass, In Flames, At The Gates, Chimaira, Nothingface, Brainchild/Circle Of Dust/Celldweller, Entombed, V.O.D, Turmoil , C.O.C, Paradise Lost, Skinlab, Sikh, Unjust, Mnemic, Cryptopsy, Only Living Witness, Doubledrive, Slapdash and B-Thong (just to name a few)
Album He Couldn't Live Without: Machine Head - Burn My Eyes
Best Live Show He's Seen: TOOL & Limp Bizkit (Ozzfest ‘98)
Most Overrated Band: It's a tie between Slayer and Shadows Fall
Most Underrated Band: Nothingface
I'm a Christ-follower, husband (site guru, Jennifer is my wife), father, rabid Atlanta sports fan and gaming junkie (gamertag is Kendall3206). I'm a former musician who has seen just about it all and loves music regardless of style or sound...as long as it makes your teeth rattle. I call it like I see it. Dare to possibly have your feelings hurt? Don't be "Skeeered."
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Jen Rochester
In House Designer/Developer, Editor, Writerjen@thenewreview.net
Hometown: Myrtle Beach, SC
Favorite Bands: Depends on what day you ask me. Alice in Chains will always be at the top of that list. Also, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Stick To Your Guns, Touché Amoré, 36 Crazyfists, Norma Jean, La Dispute, Textures, Cancer Bats, Feed The Rhino, Oh, Sleeper, Vestascension, Hope For The Dying, The Prestige (FR) and lots, lots more.
Album She Couldn't Live Without: Alice in Chains' Dirt or Alice in Chains' Unplugged
Best Live Show She's Seen: Probably a nu-metal band. Don't hate, youngsters.
Most Overrated Band: August Burns Red
Most Underrated Band: Hope For The Dying (!!!)
Above all else, I'm a wife and mom. Secondly, I'm a tech geek who is ridiculously addicted to all things design related. I'm also a lover of minimalism. Married to Lee (founder of The NewReview), so I'm constantly exposed to new music - and not always voluntarily. Freelance web designer, developer, and owner of Redhead Design. I believe men should wear mens pants and sing like men. My first exposure to metal was listening to Black Sabbath's Paranoid on cassette tape when I was around 8 years old. It's been a long road since then.
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Eric Burnet
Writereric@thenewreview.net
Hometown: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Favorite Bands: Decapitated, Strapping Young Lad, Ihsahn + a million more
Album He Couldn't Live Without: The absence of albums would not kill me. It would be unpleasant, but I'd survive.
Best Live Show He's Seen: Martyr
Most Overrated Band: Any band whose reputation is built on things other than their music.
Most Underrated Band: The last local band you passed up to see some international touring act at a bigger club.
I'm a musician, writer, publicist, and translator. I live in Montreal. I front and manage a technical death metal band called Derelict: (www.derelictmetal.com). I'm interested in innovative and heavy music, forward-looking world views, and people who think for themselves.
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Kevin Juliff
Writerkevin@thenewreview.net
Hometown: Philadelphia, PA
Favorite Bands: The Dillinger Escape Plan, Bloodbath, Nachtmystium, Obscura, The Black Dahlia Murder, Aborted, Decrepit Birth, Skeletonwitch, Howl, Graveyard, Zao (Guilty Pleasure: Finch – Say Hello To Sunshine)
Album He Couldn't Live Without: Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here AND Nachtmystium – Assassins Black Meddle Pt.1
Best Live Show He's Seen: Lamb of God – New England Metal and Hardcore Fest 2009 AND of course, GWAR!
Most Overrated Band: MESHUGGAH!
Most Underrated Band: I thought about this for a good 20 minutes...Protest The Hero
I am a 25 year old Metal enthusiast based out of Philadelphia, PA. I focus my time on marketing, writing and shooting video for all things metal! My resume includes previous working gigs with Decibel Magazine, Relapse Records, XM Liquid Metal, Metal Injection, SMNews, SkullsNBones and more! I have directly worked alongside very talented musicians in an effort to promote their music and better themselves socially, financially and of course musically. I love what I do and would not change it for the world. Get in contact with me if you would like advice on how to better market your band or if you just want to chat about the latest slab of audio brutality! Finally and MOST importantly, I am a Tottenham Hotspur football club supporter! THFC or GTFO!
Most Recent Review: De Profundis – The Emptiness Within | Archive of All Author's Posts
Luke Amos
Writerluke@thenewreview.net
Hometown: Puyallup, WA
Favorite Bands: Painted in Exile, Volumes, Being, and Hands.
Album He Couldn't Live Without: Hands - Give Me Rest
Best Live Show He's Seen: Volumes
Most Overrated Band: Disturbed
Most Underrated Band: Painted In Exile
I love Jesus. Weird I know. But I love metal. I started my journey into heavy metal in my late elementary years and have never looked back. I am open to any type of music though I can’t wait to learn about new bands in the future. If you have a band you think I’d like shoot it to me.
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Keith Anderson
Writerkeith@thenewreview.net
Hometown: Fort Worth, TX
Favorite Bands: Faith No More, Iced Earth, Gojira, Queen, Melechesh, Salem, Clutch, Slayer, Hatebreed, Sepultura, Foo Fighters, The Cult, Soundgarden, Barnabas, Rolling Stones, The Who, Talking Heads, Dio, J, Jimi Hendrix, Envy, Sigh, Led Zeppelin, Nevermore, Orphaned Land, Radiohead, Shadows Fall, Stone Temple Pilots, Revocation, Tesla, Deftones, Tool, AC/DC, Coliseum, Lair of the Minotaur, & Kansas
Album He Couldn't Live Without: Gojira - The Way of All Flesh, Nazareth - Hair of the Dog, & Back in Black
Best Live Show He's Seen: The Cult in 1990 telling fans in Little Rock, AR they sucked
Most Overrated Band: Linkin Park, Bush, and Avenged Sevenfold
Most Underrated Band: King's X
I've been listening to heavy music since before your parents were born. Just look at my avatar; pretty sad, huh? The nice part though is that even though it's chilly in my mom's basement, she brings me sandwiches cut up into fourths along with a pickle I never eat and a can of Pringles. Everything I know from music, I learned from HeeHaw, Laurence Welk, and the Donnie and Marie Show.
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Max Grundström
Writermax@thenewreview.net
Hometown: Stockholm, Sweden
Favorite Bands: Four Year Strong, Vanna, Hidden In Plain View, The Ghost Inside, old For The Fallen Dreams, The Contortionist, Born Of Osiris, The Wonder Years, Fireworks, With The Punches, Erra, Heart In Hand.
Album He Couldn't Live Without: Four Year Strong - Rise Or Die Trying. Probably my favorite album of all times.
Best Live Show He's Seen: The Chariot. And Enter Shikari.
Most Overrated Band: Asking Alexandria and Metallica.
Most Underrated Band: Every band in my Favorite Bands section deserves a lot more recognition.
I'm Max, a 21-year-old and straight edger from Stockholm, Sweden. I think you could say that metalcore and pop punk are my two favorite genres, but I listen to so much in-between. I hope you enjoy your time here at TNR!
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Hobbes Launderville
Writerhobbes@thenewreview.net
Hometown: Manchester, Connecticut
Favorite Bands: Between the Buried and Me, Eluveitie, AFI, Dimmu Borgir, Defeater, Less Than Jake, Children of Bodom, Behemoth
Album He Couldn't Live Without: Between the Buried and Me - Colors
Best Live Show He's Seen: The Carrier's last show 3/23/12, with Defeater, Colin of Arabia, All Teeth, and Rude Awakening
Most Overrated Band: The Devil Wears Prada, Attack Attack, Motionless in White, The Word Alive, etc.
Most Underrated Band: Ana Kefr, Behold Oblivion, NAMI
I'm Matt, or Hobbes, whichever you prefer. I'm originally from Manchester, Connecticut. I'm a practicing Pure Land Buddhist. I've been claiming Edge since my eighteenth birthday (about three years ago). I'm working on a degree in History and German language at Randolph-Macon College in Virginia, and making the best of being so far from home. Here's my last.fm, so you know exactly what I like. http://www.last.fm/user/hobbestamthanh Add me on facebook or something of that sort, I'll be happy to discuss things on a more personal level. Cheers.
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Jonathan Anderson
Writerjonathan@thenewreview.net
Hometown: Born: Memphis, TN. Raised: Franklin, TN and Ulaan Bataar, Mongolia. Currently: Greenville, SC
Favorite Bands: August Burns Red, Anberlin, Relient K, Oh Sleeper, Owl City
Album He Couldn't Live Without: Oh Sleeper - Children of Fire, Constellations - August Burns Red, Ocean Eyes - Owl City, Cities - Anberlin, These are My Sins - I The Breather, every Relient K album
Best Live Show He's Seen: A Day To Remember @ The Masquerade in Atlanta, during a tornado warning and 3 hour downpour
Most Overrated Band: Metallica, Nickelback, anything that is produced by Disney and American Idol
Most Underrated Band: Oh Sleeper, Becoming the Archetype, and House of Heroes
First of all, I'm a Jesus freak. I love music. I can play a little guitar, drums and sing fairly well, I'm not the greatest though. I'm best at listening to my large collection of music. This is what I tend to listen to. I love writing about and discussing music, so hit me up if you want to talk! Also, I play volleyball and soccer. I'm a die-hard Tennessee Titans and Memphis Tigers fan.
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John Skibeat
Writerjohn@thenewreview.net
Hometown: Cambridge, England
Favorite Bands: Barnburner, Bison B.C., Baroness, Gojira, High On Fire, Iron Maiden, Machine Head, Lamb Of God, Lower Than Atlantis, Shrinebuilder, Skyharbor, Uneven Structure
Album He Couldn't Live Without: Nirvana - Nevermind
Best Live Show He's Seen: Soundgarden, Faith No More, Guns N' Roses @ Wembley, England, 1992
Most Overrated Band: Kiss
Most Underrated Band: Purified In Blood
Listening to aggressive music loud aswell as listening to loud music aggressively is a huge passion. My heroes are bands that break boundaries that we didn't even know were there. When I'm not standing in front of a stage or plonking on a pair of headphones, you might find me on the golf course, kicking a soccer ball, drunk in a bar or eating cheese.
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Gabriel Pio
Writergabriel@thenewreview.net
Hometown: Bahia, Brazil
Favorite Bands: Still Remains, It Dies Today, Memphis May Fire, Bleed from Within, Misery Signals, Oceana, Vanna, Corelia, The Arusha Accord, etc.
Album He Couldn't Live Without: Of Love and Lunacy - Still Remains
Best Live Show He's Seen:
Most Overrated Band: Most melodic metalcore bands i.e. Trivium, BFMV, A7x. Oh, and Converge. Never got them.
Most Underrated Band: The Amity Affliction, Vanna
Born in the US of A, despite my brazilian blood. A general enthusiast of metal in general (with a knack for genericore and progressive music, paradox much?), horror movie fanatic and literature enthusiast. Currently studying my last year of business administration, which will probably mark the end of my 11-year stint in Brazil. Hit me up if you wanna chat about music or whatever, I'm a pretty open-minded guy.
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Isaac Wastman
Writer, Editorisaac@thenewreview.net
Hometown: Seattle, WA
Favorite Bands: Modern Life is War, Refused, Descendants, The Weakerthans, Cursed, Dishammer, Weekend Nachos, Dangers, Titus Andronicus, Kill Your Idols, Nujabes, Advent, Dropdead
Album He Couldn't Live Without: Modern Life is War- Witness
Best Live Show He's Seen: Converge & Coalesce
Most Overrated Band: Radiohead
Most Underrated Band: Advent
"Get off the bandwagon and put down the handbook."
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Austin Williams
Writeraustin@thenewreview.net
Hometown: Atlanta, Georgia
Favorite Bands: August Burns Red, Silverstein, Emery, Arsonists Get All The Girls, The Browning, Breakdown Of Sanity, Circa Survive, Underoath, Born Of Osiris, Hands Like Houses, The Faceless, For Today, I The Breather, Veil Of Maya, Betraying The Martyrs, Failure In Vanity
Album He Couldn't Live Without: Nevea Tears' "Run With The Hunted"
Best Live Show He's Seen: None, they're all terrible
Most Overrated Band: The Chariot
Most Underrated Band: Greeley Estates
I'm Austin. I don't have a label. I just live how I feel I'm supposed to and I don't dress or act a certain way to just fit in. I love music, and not a minute goes by that I'm not listening to it. I just want to share my passion with others. Get to know me. I love meeting new people.
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Max Lussier
Writermaxim@thenewreview.net
Hometown: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Favorite Bands: Death, Atheist, Cynic, Suffocation, Augury, Gorguts, Blind Guardian, Devin Townsend-Strapping Young Lad, !T.O.O.H.!, Decapitated, Lykathea Aflame, Coprofago, Between the Buried and Me, Amorphis, Symphony-X, Dissection, Metal Church, Halford, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Iced Earth, Cryptopsy and more...
Album He Couldn't Live Without: Atheist - Unquestionnable Presence, Death - Human and Decapitated - Winds of Creation
Best Live Show He's Seen: Suffocation, Origin
Most Overrated Band: Metallica, Dream Theater
Most Underrated Band: !T.O.O.H.!, Lykathea Aflame
Metalhead, musician, rabid sports fan, TV and film junkie, that's pretty much me. Born and raised in Montreal, Quebec, I grew up listening to metal and have never stopped. I play guitar in a technical death metal band along with fellow scribe Eric Burnet. I started writing reviews about 8 years ago on metal-archives and found this wonderful site to write for. Musically I can listen to anything from bubblegum pop to brutal death metal whilst rummaging through prog and jazz. Variety in music is a great thing and that's something I love about TNR. Hailz and all that good stuff!
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Timothy Meyer
Writertim@thenewreview.net
Hometown: Buffalo, NY
Favorite Bands: Between The Buried And Me, Animals As Leaders, Devin Townsend, TesseracT, Periphery, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Every Time I Die, The Deftones, Mastodon, Baroness, Cynic, Tool, Oh Sleeper, Yes, Mumford & Sons, Enslaved, Porcupine Tree, Ihsahn, mewithoutYou, etc
Album He Couldn't Live Without: Between The Buried And Me - Colors
Best Live Show He's Seen: Top 5 - The Dillinger Escape Plan, The Chariot, Animals As Leaders, TesseracT, Devin Townsend
Most Overrated Band: SSSSLLLLLLAAAAAYYYYYEEEERRRRRRRR!!!!
Most Underrated Band: The Contortionist
I'm a recent college graduate (AS in Music Performance with Merit and an award for excellence), bass player, Christian, tech support agent, and reading/writing enthusiast.
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Adam Schultz
Writeradam@thenewreview.net
Hometown: Atlanta, GA
Favorite Bands: Napalm Death, Cannibal Corpse, Through the Eyes of the Dead, The Black Dahlia Murder, Necrophagist, Behemoth, The Project Hate, Belphegor, Animals as Leaders, Chimaira, Decapitated, Suffocation, Vital Remains, Hatesphere
Album He Couldn't Live Without: Cannibal Corpse - Wretched Spawn
Best Live Show He's Seen: Cannibal Corpse in Bham AL
Most Overrated Band: Killswitch Engage
Most Underrated Band: Graves of Valor
Born and raised in Alabama, I had little exposure to extreme music. I simply fell in line with what my parents were listening to and bobbed along to 70's and 80's rock and old-time Country. At the age of ten, I was exposed to Napalm Death's Fear. Emptiness. Despair. album and have been hooked ever since. I love nearly every form of extreme metal music, but find myself really drawn to technical death, grindcore, and deathcore. When not banging my head and reviewing albums, I can be found writing about the Atlanta Falcons on TheFalcoholic.com, where I'm an Editor and Writer.
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Rob Truesdale
Writerrob@thenewreview.net
Hometown: Orangeburg, SC
Favorite Bands: This is like asking me to pick the favorite hair from the top of my head - I have a lot of favorites, from many different genres. Those bands that I always seem to come back to are Metallica, Slipknot, KISS, Pantera, DOWN, Iron Maiden, AC/DC, As I Lay Dying, Artimus Pyledriver, among many, many others. I enjoy quirky stuff, too, like Powerglove and Psychostick, as well as power metal and industrial sounds such as Scar Symmetry, Sonata Arctica, Within Temptation, and (of course) In Flames..
Album He Couldn't Live Without: Metallica's "Master of Puppets" - one of the most influential albums of all time, in my opinion. As much as NWOBHM may have affected the sound of Metallica, "Master of Puppets" forever changed the entire landscape of heavy music.
Best Live Show He's Seen: Rob Zombie and Marilyn Manson are at the top, mainly because of the fact that I enjoy the combination of their theatrics with their music.
Most Overrated Band: Megadeth - Dave Mustaine is a perfect example of the old saying "better to remain silent and allow people to think you an idiot than to speak and remove all doubt".
Most Underrated Band: Devin Townsend Band - Stop what you're doing and go listen to "Accelerated Evolution", right now.
30-something guy - married, IT professional by day, attack Dachshund trainer by night (no, really - come into my house uninvited and you'll find out what it feels like to have your ankles chewed off). I'm a geek in every sense of the term and quite proud of it. Comics, professional wrestling, movies, music; you name it and I can probably rattle off some useless piece of trivia pertaining to the topic at hand. When it comes to music, I tend to gravitate towards aggressive, upbeat styles as I've always believed that music should be a source of energy and inspiration. I don't like to constrain myself to specific styles as I'm willing to give pretty much anything the benefit of doubt, however I particularly appreciate thrash, hardcore, sludge, industrial, and power metal. I'm a fan of many different genres of music beyond just what falls within the realm of metal, though, which is probably why I have a soft spot for bands with sounds that combine a variety elements and styles.
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Rhiis Lopez
Writerrhiis@thenewreview.net
Hometown: Riverside, California
Favorite Bands: Pink Floyd, Tom Waits, David Bowie
Album He Couldn't Live Without: "Mule Variations," Tom Waits
Best Live Show He's Seen: David Bowie, 2002
Most Overrated Band: Metallica
Most Underrated Band: King Crimson
Rhiis D. Lopez is the frontman/keyboardist for progressive death outfit Ana Kefr (Arabic, "I am Infidel"), as well as a music, culture, literature, travel, psychology, language and philosophy enthusiast.
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Nick Wright
Writernick@thenewreview.net
Hometown: Lockport, NY
Favorite Bands: (in no specific order...) Opeth, Dream Theater, Queen, Soundgarden, In Flames, Soilwork, Metallica, Megadeth, Boston, Meshuggah, Textures, Porcupine Tree, King's X, Tesla, Agalloch, Deftones, Sevendust, The Tea Party, Zao, The Smashing Pumpkins, Dark Tranquillity, The Darkness, Corrosion of Conformity, Days of the New, Alice in Chains, Gojira, Hacride, and WAY too many more... (I know, I know, this is the weirdest list ever lol)
Album He Couldn't Live Without: We'll have to go with three because there is no way I could pick just one... The Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream, Soundgarden - Superunknown, and King's X - Dogman (man, that was WAY too hard... I'll probably change it in a week)
Best Live Show He's Seen: Either Porcupine Tree and 3 @ The Egg in Albany, NY, or Soundgarden last summer @ The Molson Canadian Ampitheater in Toronto
Most Overrated Band: Three-way tie between... Slayer, Avenged Sevenfold, and Nickleback
Most Underrated Band: Probably King's X
First and foremost, I am a Christian, and that should say more about who I am than anything else. I am a lover of music and a guitar player. I went to Roberts Wesleyan College for English, and now I work as an electrician. I still remember the first time I heard anything that was heavier than Metallica was at the end of high school and my best friend, at the time, showed me Clayman by In Flames. Even though I hated the screaming and growling at the time, I was hooked on the sound. Then college came around and I heard In Flames again, along with Soilwork, and there was no turning back. I dove in, head first.
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Jairus Pascale
Writerjairus@thenewreview.net
Hometown: Somewhere in TX
Favorite Bands: Iron Maiden, Mortification, Stavesacre, Social Distortion/Mike Ness, Avantasia, Black Label Society, Beneath the Massacre, Deeds of Flesh, Blind Guardian, Devildriver, Living Sacrifice, Mithotyn, Communic, Metalium, Nile, Hate Eternal, Scar Symmetry, Cannibal Corpse, Nevermore, Hammerfall, Falconer, Extol, Soulfly, Dream Evil, Rhapsody of Fire, Borknagar, Johnny Cash, Divinefire, Amon Amarth, Ethereal Scourge, Galactic Cowboys, King's X, Hands, Grave Digger, Mystic Prophecy, Orphaned Land, Soilwork, Symphorce/Brainstorm, 36 Crazyfists, Andrew W.K., In Flames, Dark Tranquillity, Kamelot, Nightwish, Epica, Arch Enemy, Vomitorial Corpulence, Antestor, Becoming the Archetype, Machine Head, In Extremo, Into Eternity, Iced Earth, and many more....
Album He Couldn't Live Without: Iron Maiden - Powerslave, Somewhere in Time, Brave New World. Stavesacre - Absolutes. Living Sacrifice - Reborn. Mortification - Scrolls of the Megilloth. Extol - Burial, Undeceived. 36 Crazyfists - A Snowcapped Romace. Dead Poetic - Vices. Nile - Black Seeds of Vengeance, Annihilation of the Wicked, Rhapsody of Fire - Dawn of Victory, Power of the Dragonflame, Symphony of Enchanted Lands II, From Chaos to Eternity,
Best Live Show He's Seen: toss up between Iron Maiden "Death on the Road" tour in L.A. or Extol "Undeceived" tour
Most Overrated Band: The Beatles, Opeth, Tool,. . . .
Most Underrated Band: Falconer, Dream Evil, Hammerfall, Stavesacre, Extol, Mike Ness, and Divinefire
Misplaced barbarian lost in time, trying to remember that not all villages need be pillaged in this century. I like all kinds of metal from the kind you swing at your enemy to the kind you bang your head to - power metal and death metal are my staple. I believe that a one time carpenter from Nazareth has the benchmark on Truth. Believe and intrust, that is the groundwork of faith. Crush your enemies, see them driven out before you, hear the lamentations of the women....this is best in life . . . . I also think Bears are truly kickass. Feel free to stalk me on FB and TW.
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