Batsauce "Starcrossed"

Being in the hip hop scene, I first heard of Batsauce from the group, "The Smile Rays" when they were doing a set in Jacksonville, Florida at the annual "Summertime in the City" event and immediately took a liking to it, after tracking down his work with Jedi Mind Tricks, Mr Lif, and Paten Locke, I knew this dude was going places and far places at that. Most recently though I was completely blown out of my chair by Batsauce when I heard the "Bat meets Blaine" album in 2011 with Qwazaar. I've been nerding out as well and following his 365 beats a day project he was doing on soundcloud and knew that this new album would be great, but im pretty blown away by it. Batsauce's new instrumental album, STARCROSSED, is super dope and takes the cake, I mean, dope enough for me to sit at work in the back room and listen to the whole thing when im suppose to be working, nodding my head with a big ass grin on my face hoping my boss doesnt walk back here and catch me. Batsauce is a genius when it comes to producing, the beats are so perfect and the sound bites he uses are just enough to balance it, there's nothing worst then hearing a hip hop/beat album and every other track have it be some bite from a karate flick or italian movie. The lovenote songs are my favorite (there's three of them) and they are sly and sexy. Batsauce once again has produced beats that are super spacey jazz, funk, and soul. It's all a beautiful blend of new and old sounds alike. Batsauce has given us yet another album that is not to be slept on.

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Victorian Halls

Victorian halls

Victory records

The vocals and bass are good. Everything else is could be a little better. The vocals are the highlight of this E.P.

Keenan Carter 

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Less than Jake

GNV FLA.

Sleep it off records

I'm not a big ska fan but at least this is good ska. This album has more punk influences with a few ska elements. I enjoyed the singers voice and the guitar riffs. This album is pretty good; if you like this band or punk and ska you should get this album.

Keenan Carter 

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Spider Lilies

In the light

Spider lilies

This band sounds like something the eighties rejected. The vocals are bland and the music sounds like it was ripped from a John Carpenter movie.

Keenan Carter 

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Driver Side Impact

Lion

Victory records

The vocals sound like top forty punk. Guitar riffs are impressive. The bass is inaudible. The drums are standard punk. This is actually what those top forty punk bands you hear on the radio were trying to accomplish.

Keenan Carter 

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Nineteen Ninety Seven

On the road

Victory records

This album isn't bad but this band does need to try harder. All of the musical parts are decent and so are the female vocals. The same can't be said about the male vocals.

Keenan Carter 

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The Pack A.D.

Funeral mix tape

Mint records inc.

This another fine example of what rock is supposed to sound like. The vocals have a very raw punk sound to them but the rest of the music is to slow but just as good. This band rocks and should be checked out.

Keenan Carter 

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Alice in videoland

She's a machine

National records

Awesome electronica, I like everything about this album,the vocals, the lyrics, and all of the music. This band rocks, everyone needs to check out Alice in video-land.

Keenan Carter 

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Xandria

Salome The Seventh Veil

National records

The vocals are  beautiful. The piano and the violin is very nice.  The guitar riffs are basic yet awesome and extremely heavy. The drums are good at times and great at others. This band is incredible; no one should miss this album.

Keenan Carter 

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Testament

The formation of damnation

Nuclear blast records

This album is everything I would expect from one of the best metal bands of all time. Everything on this album from the guitar riffs to the drums to the vocals and lyrics is absolutely mind-blowing. This might be the best testament album ever.

Keenan Carter 

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Winterus

In carbon mysticism

Lifeforce records

Astoundingly fast drums. The vocals are pretty good and the guitar riffs are decent. This is what black metal is supposed to sound like; this band rocks if you're into black metal you should definitely check these guys out.

Keenan Carter 

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The Last Felony

Too many humans

Lifeforce records

The vocals have more power than this band knows what to do with luckily the rest

of the band is just as great. This album is another one of those albums that can

only be described as pure death metal. The drums and vocals are to good to be

true.

Keenan Carter 

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Funeral for a Friend

Memory and humanity

Victory records

Music is good but very repetitive and doesn't change. I don't like the vocals. The bass is ok.

Keenan Carter 

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Stellastarr

Somewhere across forever (single)

Tiswas records

The vocals are great. This band sounds like a punk band but they also sound too happy to be your standard punk band.

Keenan Carter 

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Callisto

Providence

Fullsteam records

The vocals are beyond awful most of the time and awesome at other times. A lot of the music sounds random. There are some good parts but not enough. This band needs to try harder.

Keenan Carter 

for MovementMagazine.

Madina Lake

Attics to Eden

Roadrunner records

The first half of this album is pretty decent. The later half goes off in a fizzle. The keyboards are the best part of this album; everything else is ok. The good parts of this album are really good but, there isn't enough for me to

tell anyone to go get this album.

Keenan Carter 

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Monsters are Waiting

Fascination

Retone records

The bass is really good. The vocals are good. The drums are decently done. This band has a decent almost punk sound.

Keenan Carter 

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The Dangerous Summer

Reach for the sun

Hopeless records

The terrible vocals over power the mediocre and very repetitive guitar riffs.

The drums are ok but they could be better. This is another band that sounds too

much like blink 182, I don't like it.

Keenan Carter 

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Tantric

Mind control
Silent majority group

I don't like the tantric songs I have heard on the radio. I thought I would give  this band a chance with what I have heard others saying about them but I was wrong. I don't like any of it.

Keenan Carter 

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Echo us

The tide decides

Muse parallele

Elevator music sprinkled with a few heavy guitar riffs and something else I can't quite put my finger on. Fans of Phil Collins might enjoy this one.

Keenan Carter 

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Robert Gomez

Pine sticks and phosphorus

Nova posta

The vocals are very weak,the music is slow and uninspiring. If you have a baby that you're trying to put to bed; play this album and he will be asleep in no time.

Keenan Carter 

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Globes on Remote

The woo-Hoo-Hoo

No record label (self released)

Good brass section, decent vocals, ok guitar riffs, and awesome electronic eight bit sound effects. I normally don't like this style of music but; there is something interesting about them.

Keenan Carter 

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28 Degrees Taurus

How do you like your love?

No record label (self released)

The female vocals would sound great if they had more power behind them. The drums are lackluster and the guitar fails to impress. The bass lines are decent when they are actually audible.

Keenan Carter 

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Scott Pinkmountain & The Golden Bolts of Tone

The Full sun

Howells Transmitter

Too slow too jazzy. I don't like it but someone with a softer taste in music will. On a side note there are some decent drums.

Keenan Carter 

for MovementMagazine.

The Gothsicles

Sega Lugosi's Dead

WTII Records

The vocals are awesome. The drums are impressive and the synthesizers are great.This band isn't like other goth bands; their music is too fast, the lyrics are high pitched and keep up with the rest of the music, it's goth but different and I like it.

Keenan Carter 

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West Indian Girl

4th & wall

Milan Records

The bass lines are great. The drums don't impress but do their job. Guitar riffs

are basic yet have something beautiful about them. The vocals are weak. This

album sounds like what you relax to, if you're looking for music that motivates

look somewhere else.

Human Aftertaste

Eat our meat

Octopoid productions

The singer sounds like Dr. Frankenfurter. There are some awesome guitar riffs. The drums are decent sometimes and horrible the next. This album doesn't have enough for me to recommend buying it, but there are some good ideas at work. I have a feeling that this bands next album will be better.

Keenan Carter 

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Jeff Wagners Tunnel of Love

An Eternity of Blood
Glorious Alchemical records

This is a strange album. One track kind of sounds like swing music, another track has a lot of heavy metal influence, then you have a jazz sounding track followed by a track that sounds industrial. The singers voice is annoying, if you can look past that the music itself is pretty good on the majority of the tracks. 

Keenan Carter 




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Mind Flux Funeral

Teatro de Revelacion

Bit riot records

This band does industrial music very well. Fans of ministry will enjoy. Great vocals, dark lyrics, and strange sounds arranged into a uniquely heavy industrial songs. Add the drums and you have an almost perfect industrial album.

Keenan Carter 

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The Bodies Obtained

From the top of my tree

Finding you attractive music

Everything is annoying except the drums and the bass lines and those are far too

repetitive for me to like for an entire track.

Keenan Carter 

for MovementMagazine.

Monstrum sepsis

Artifacts
WTII Records

There are no vocals;  just samples from different political debates and all of which are used quite effectively. All of the synthesizers are wonderful. The drums are basic yet never skip a beat or fall out of tempo. There is a lot of good music here with a strong political message that many industrial fans will enjoy.

Keenan Carter 




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Place and Time

The Rockwells

Migrant records

I hear some good bass lines and decent drums. The vocals are kind of weak over half the time but, they are full of emotion. There are a lot of things to like on this album, it's not my favorite, but it is good enough for me to recommend.

Keenan Carter 

for MovementMagazine.

Slayer

World painted blood

Columbia records

Slayer is one of my favorite bands, they nave never disappointed me and this album is the best one yet. Everything is fast and hateful just the way I like it.

Keenan Carter 

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We the Kings

We the kings

S-curve records

As soon as I hear the vocals and the way too happy guitar riffs I say to myself "I hate this".

Keenan Carter 

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Thieves and Villians

Movement

Victory records

I hate blink 182 and this band sounds like a rip off of them.

Keenan Carter 

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Pride Parade

Dose

No label (self released)

The guitar riffs are way too slow. The vocals sound like they were recorded in a tunnel which makes them almost inaudible. The drums don't impress either. The bass is good though.

Keenan Carter 

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Method of Destruction

Red, White & Screwed

Index entertainment

The perfect mashup of punk and metal. This band sounds like a slayer and zeke team up, I love it.

Keenan Carter 

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Mastodon

Blood mountain

Warner Bros./ Reprise records

Powerful vocals, fast guitar riffs and drums, and heavy bass. Metal magic, this album is fast and heavy from start to finish. If you don't like mastodon this album might change your mind.

Keenan Carter 

for MovementMagazine.

Sound of Mass Production

The treatment

Music Ration Entertainment

Awesome vocals full of anger. Guitar riffs are heavy but slow and repetitive yet they fit perfectly with the rest of the music. The cynical lyrics are the highlight of this album. This album is pretty decent.

Keenan Carter 

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David Gahan

Hourglass remixes

Virgin records

All eleven tracks are remixes of the same four songs. Each track sounds

unique,has vocals,and progresses decently. I have never heard these songs

before; or the artist but, these remixes make me curious about the original

versions. I like what I hear.

Keenan Carter 

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Bedrock 10 - John Digweed

Past present future

Bedrock records

Techno. Generic techno. Can't tell when the tracks end or begin,everything sounds the same but has good bass. Has a few good moments, I didn't like the first half of this album but, the later part of the album started to sound ok. Not my favorite album or style of music,but someone will like it.

Keenan Carter 

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Deadmau5

For lack of a better name

Ultra records

Just when you think this album is going to repeat itself over and over again, it surprises you by changing it up at the last second. Each track is upbeat and the music is always changing to something better. If you're into techno then you will love this album.

Keenan Carter 

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DJ Sasha

The emFire collection: mixed, Unmixed & Remixed

Ultra Records

Each track is between five and a half minutes to over twelve minutes long. None of the tracks sound the same but they don't progress very far and end up repeating the same notes over and over again. Even though there are some decent sounds on this album it is far too repetitive for me to recommend.

Keenan Carter 

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Soul Stalker

A way out

Manic depression records

Decent vocals and lyrics. Each track is clearly a different track. Even though each track is repetitive; they have a good sound that starts off simple and slowly builds up nicely but doesn't really change. This is a decent album that should be given a chance.

Keenan Carter 

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Chase frank

Midnight Manor e.p.

Great lyrics and vocals. Drums are spot on the tempo but that's it. The guitar is slow and repetitive yet has a good punk rock feel to it. The bass makes up for what the guitar lacks. All three tracks are nicely done, this band hasn't been signed yet but I have high hopes, they have a unique cabaret punk sound.

 Keenan Carter 

for MovementMagazine.

The Spiritual Bat

Through the shadows

Alchemist music

The singer has a beautiful voice. Awesome bass and the drums are surprisingly good for this style of music. The flute is either amazing or sounds like the flutist is trying too hard but, the synthesizers blend wonderfully with it the guitar could be better but is in no way bad. The vocals alone are enough reason to own this album and support this band.

Keenan Carter 

for MovementMagazine.