Articles by Adam Nizam
Dälek
Endangered Philosophies
PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2017
Dälek are perhaps more relevant now than they were in their heyday in the '00s. The group initially got attention for their noisy and inten...
Thursday / Fucked Up / mewithoutYou
Danforth Music Hall, Toronto ON, June 24
PUBLISHED Jun 25, 2017
It's very rare to see three of the biggest bands in any given musical movement playing the same show outside of a festival setting, but tha...
Dec. 99th
Dec. 99th
PUBLISHED Dec 26, 2016
It's virtually impossible to talk about Dec. 99th without talking about the context in which it was released. Earlier this year, legendary...
The Dillinger Escape Plan
The Opera House, Toronto ON, December 16
PUBLISHED Dec 17, 2016
The Dillinger Escape Plan's impending breakup hung over the night like a foul stench as fans filled the Opera House for the first of what c...
Thee Oh Sees
Danforth Music Hall, Toronto ON, November 17
PUBLISHED Nov 18, 2016
Even though Thee Oh Sees were playing in a venue that could fit 1,500 people, the atmosphere, music and crowd evoked a club in the UK durin...
Daniel Avery
DJ-Kicks
PUBLISHED Nov 9, 2016
It seems like almost every year is a big year for the venerable DJ mix series DJ-Kicks, but if there's any year that definitively deserves...
Deathspell Omega
The Synarchy of Molten Bones
PUBLISHED Nov 6, 2016
The fact that we know as little as we do about French black metal collective Deathspell Omega speaks to their dedication solely to their mu...
Testament
Brotherhood of the Snake
PUBLISHED Oct 26, 2016
These are troubling times for classic metal. Greats are fading from the public consciousness, not helped by recent lacklustre releases, and...
