Monday, January 16, 2012

The Autumn Offering



Fear Will Cast No Shadow
Victory Records

Awesome screams and mediocre singing, heavy bass, decent guitar riffs with
killer solos, the drums will blow you away with the impressive double bass and
leave you wanting more during the slower spots. This album is great.

Keenan Carter 
for MovementMagazine.com

Dethklok



Dethalbum II
Williams Street Records

This album rocks. The guitar, bass, drums, and vocals are top notch and the
lyrics are just as brutal as they are hilarious. This album is worth every penny
of the price they are asking for.

Keenan Carter
for MovementMagazine.com

The Number Twelve Looks Like You



Worse Than Alone
Eyeball Records

Half punk, half metal, all chaos. Good singer. Weird and repetitive guitar riffs, awesome drummer.

Keenan Carter
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Ill Nino



Dead New World
Victory Records

Great singer/screamer with good lyrics, awesome guitar riffs that are not too
repetitive and progress from simple power chords to mind blowing solos, and
impressive drums that change tempo yet still keep up with the rest of the music.
This is an album that older fans of Ill Nino will enjoy and it will also find
them new fans as well, this album is worth buying.

Keenan Carter
for MovementMagazine.com

Genitorturers



BlackHeart Revolution

G-Force Records

Repetitive guitar riffs and awesome solos fit this style of music. The throbbing bass adds depth and keeps the rhythm. The drums are adequate and keep time but, are not the most impressive. The singers voice is amazing and her lyrics have a hint of humor to them. This album is pretty good and well worth the money.

Keenan Carter
for MovementMagazine.com



Sebastian Bach




Angel Down
Caroline Records

Awesome guitar and bass riffs and solos, great drums     
that are fast and never lose tempo, Sebastian Bach's voice sounds the same as it
did in the eighties.

Keenan Carter
for MovementMagazine.com

Jamies Elsewhere



Victory records
Guidebook For Sinners Turned Saints


Great singers, repetitive guitar riffs, really good drums. This is what a punk metal album should sound like,  except for the few slower tracks that don't sound like they belong on this album.

Keenan Carter
for MovementMagazine.com



White Mice



Ganjahovadose
20 Buckspin Records

Too chaotic even for punk, this album must be what the Sex Pistols would have sounded like if they were inspired by Slipknot. This entire album is a mess.

Keenan Carter
for MovementMagazine.com

Fall From Grace




Sifting Through The Wreckage
HRM Records

This band sounds too much like Blink 182 for the majority of the album. There are a few decent tracks on this album but not enough for me to say that it is worth buying.

Keenan Carter
for MovementMagazine.com

Kittie



In The Black

E1 music

I have always liked this band's music, the singers voice still amazes me to this day. The drums have always been able to keep the fast pace and tempo of their music. And the guitar has always seemed to improve between albums. This is the best Kittie album that I have heard in a while.

Keenan Carter
for MovementMagazine.com

The Mirgrant



Travels in Lowland
Divine Records
Drawing from the well that Beirut, Beck (early years), Tim Buckley, and Jens Lekman have, The Migrant captures the transient vibes of perpetual movement. Travels in Lowland is a compilation of material gathered from his meandering voyage traversing North America with companions consuming two years (2008-10). Their ambiance they carried around like suitcases, exuding talent, and crashing on friends couches; a rag-tag gang preforming at venues big and small, crowded or bare, zestful or board.
Bjarke Bendtsen is The Migrant a Dane who vocalizes English distinctly well. Most of The Travels in Lowland is acoustic guitar harmonized with various folk paraphernalia i.e.ukulele, accordion, fiddle, hand drums. While chords follow the rhythm line, interesting arrangements preserve the melody in the mind. Psychedelic folk rock rolls undulated over this itinerant artist.
Stand out tracks form Travels in Lowland include: “The Organ Grinder”, the album opener enveloping the listener directly into the psyche of The Migrant, focused and forthright. “Beans,” reminiscent of Beck’s early recordings by being raw, feral, and carrying a repetitive sing-along to the coda. “Don’t Turn Tidal Wave,” the unbridled spirit relentlessly charging at the unknown in hopes of something new, something affectionate, something real...
The Migrant has returned to Copenhagen but plans on touring North America again, soon.

Thomas Bellflower
for MovementMagazine.com


Is Tropical



Native To
Kitsune


Electro-indie pop from across the pond, Is Tropical’s fourth installment, Native To, is a powerful, energetic exposé. Four-on-the-floor, dance, chaotic sound-scapes and triumphant climaxes set this record out of the bunch. Contemporaries of the genre would consider Is Tropical a marriage of Cut Copy and Lupe Fiasco, but considering the mesh to be contrived, Is Tropical is true to the sound, whatever it may be called. Native To starts strong, eases back, drives down, and concludes like a rave in twilight. Synth-base, throbbing percussion, and masked hooligans are, Is Tropical.  


Thomas Bellflower
for MovementMagazine.com

Screamin' Eagle



Hurricane
Independent

As the noise fades away from the forefront a distant echo is heard... that’s the Screamin Eagle. A message, a voice, a guitar, and a purpose.
“The creator created everything, which means, there is nothing the creator did not create.”
Shaggy, unkempt, self proclaimed rebel armed for revolution with a six-string in hand is here, Florida born and Florida raised. Christopher Alan Nanney is the Screamin Eagle, a singer-songwriter from St. Augustine. In the intrepid voyage of life few tenants stand out as a promontory in  the void like the Screamin Eagle who shrikes across the recesses. It is difficult for one to know when a voice like his begin to develop because, it’s motive is universal, eclectic, and semi-spiritually enveloping.
At the age of 22 he was taken to county jail for breaking and entering the largest, most influential, church (institution) in Jacksonville, FL. Found wearing a garment and flailing a scepter, allegedly taken from the establishment, police encouraged Screamin Eagle to relinquish his post from atop a decorative fountain, where he was then apprehended. (source)
The debut album Hurricane is filled to the brim with creative song writing inspired by Screamin Eagle’s own meandering experiences. The opening track sapidly invites the listener to a simpler place, one where the weeds grow high and time moves slowly with a deliberate pace; nowhere in particular but lasting, intransient, and ever-so-delightful. “Step, step, step right in, the water is fine...” From the opening howl to the final vibration this album has a familiar, yet, imaginative grasp on the listener.
        Stand-out tracks on this album include: “Obama,” harmoniously repeating the chorus with a dark introspective tone, “County Jail,” the confession of faith in a duality of consciences, “Brand New Dawn,” a playful and elated melody, and “the Jesus Song,” a duet featuring Katie Grace Herlow.
        Screamin Eagle is an intransigent paradigm of folk. other than a simple one-two-and-three drum track on the “Obama” song; the album has no accompaniment. Brilliantly acoustic and unperturbed Screamin Eagle is on “...a whole’nother level.” Although the format is unformitable the beauty of it resonates in the heart, strumming the strings of exquisiteness.
        Screamin Eagle’s stage presence is rivaled by few but, hailed by all. Often performing solely illuminated by lamp light he captures attention immediately, then leads the audience into a self assured resolve. It is as if the listener has carnal knowledge of a music dormant in the soul and Screaming Eagle brings it melodically into prominence.  
Superbly drafted, masterfully executed, and performed dutifully commanding attention the debut album by the Screaming Eagle, Hurricane, is the first installment in what is to be a fruitful and prosperous career.  

Thomas Bellflower
for MovementMagazine.com

Dirge Within



Force Fed Lies
E1Entertainment

Overall this is a decent album. Awesome guitar work and solos in every song, an excellent drummer, good bassist. Great vocals and lyrics are found throughout. My only complaints are  the overused snare on tracks 6 and 8 seems to tarnish the drummers better qualities. I also thought that track 11 seemed a little repetitive with the vocals. Those minor complaints aside, I think that this band has a lot of talent and anyone who is a fan of heavy metal should check these guys out. Dirge Within rocks.

Keenan Carter
for MovementMagazine.com

The Modern Age Slavery




Damned to blindness
Napalm records

This band is awesome, the screamer has a decent range in his growls and roars. The guitar riffs are a lot palm muted power chords. The drummer is decent at times, awesome the next, then all of a sudden he is terrible. Relying too much on his snare. Overall this is a pretty good album that a lot of fans of this band
will enjoy.

Keenan Carter
for MovementMagazine.com

Celan




Halo
Exile on mainstream records

I like the singers voice and the drums. The bass is good, but I can't say that about the guitar, which doesn't really sync up with the rest of the music. 

Keenan Carter
for MovementMagazine.com

October Falls




The womb of primordial nature
Moribund records

Musically great, even though it is predictable. Every song starts off slow with classical acoustic guitar, then the distortion kicks on. I'm sure the singers voice is awesome, granted I could actually hear it. All four tracks are over eight minutes and sound exactly the same.

Keenan Carter
for MovementMagazine.com

Arckanum




Antikosmos
Moribund records

First four tracks sound exactly the same. Then after the change of pace at track five, the remainder of the tracks sound like track five.

Keenan Carter
for MovementMagazine.com

Janus



Red Right Return
Realid Records Inc.

Great singer, great guitar and bass, great drums, and beautifully composed music. This band is unique in a way,  but kind of reminds me of A Perfect Circle.

Keenan Carter
for MovementMagazine.com

Darkest Hour




The Eternal Return
Victory Records

Good drums, decent guitar, the vocals sound a little strained. This album is ok, but
I think this band could do better.

Keenan Carter
for MovementMagazine.com



Carnifex




The Diseased And The Poisoned
Victory Records
                   
Pure death metal, good rage filled guitar, the drums fade in and out between awesome and repetitive with an overused snare, and the vocals are as great as they are horrifying. This album jumps back and forth from good to bad in every track, it's great at an instant then awful the next.

Keenan Carter
for MovementMagazine.com

Emmure



The Respect Issue
Victory Records


Savage vocals, the guitar is kind of slow in places and full of angry power chords that are great for this style of music, amazing drums are fast and rhythmic. This band is hardcore awesome.

Keenan Carter
for MovementMagazine.com



Asmegin



ARV
Napalm Records


Great male and female vocals, good music, guitar riffs are far too repetitive but accompanied by other instruments to compensate, lyrics in Nordic. I like this band, they sound like Vikings doing death metal.

Keenan Carter
for MovementMagazine.com

The Red Chord



Pray for eyes
Metal blade records

Very aggressive lyrics and angry vocals, masterful guitar solos and breakdowns and a beast of a drummer. The Red Chord does metal right,do them right,buy their album.

Keenan Carter
for MovementMagazine.com

Nuclear Winter

This Album is so Underground, Album art is unattainable.



The swords have been forged E.P.
Stay tuned records

Completely devoid of lyrics or vocals, mediocre drums and guitar, decent bass. This band needs work.

Keenan Carter
for MovementMagazine.com


Shadows Fall




Retribution
Everblack Industries


Amazing lyrics, backed up by an awesome singer/screamer, brutal drums never miss a beat and superb guitar shredding. This album is pure metal at its finest.

Keenan Carter
for MovementMagazine.com

August Burns Red



Messengers
Solid State Records


 Awesome drums, guitar work and vocals, this album is great from start to finish
and should not be missed by any metal fan.

Keenan Carter
for MovementMagazine.com


Stuck Mojo



The Great Revival
Napalm Records

This album is a trap, at first it's pretty good then it makes a strange transition from decent crossover metal to some heavy 'Everlast' sounding mess, at first I thought this sounded it like it was going to be pretty good album but each track was a step down from the previous and by the end, I wasn't liking it anymore.

Keenan Carter
for MovementMagazine.com