Articles by Birkir Fjalar
Hope for the Dying
Dissimulation
PUBLISHED Apr 26, 2011
This record isn't so much a tapestry of creative bursts influenced by the band's idols as it is an embroidery of everything they like and d...
Frontline
The Gas Tank Incident
PUBLISHED Apr 26, 2011
Frontline carry on what has become an almost quasi-Quebecer tradition of metal-/deathcore bands featuring two singers. Also on display is s...
Pulling Teeth
Funerary
PUBLISHED Apr 23, 2011
The buzz around Pulling Teeth's latest has been palpable for the last couple of months. The quality of their preceding Paranoid Delusions/P...
Seraphim
The Light In The Distance
PUBLISHED Apr 19, 2011
From Mississippi come Seraphim. Previously a young band with a promising seven-inch on their back, but in what seems like an instant they'v...
Last Chance To Reason
Level 2
PUBLISHED Apr 12, 2011
Picture the film Revenge of the Nerds happening in this Internet- and computer-obsessed age. Instead of being bookworms, imagine them as me...
Check Out Madball, Fake Problems and No No Zero in This Week's Exclaim! TV Roundup
PUBLISHED Mar 24, 2011
This week's batch of Exclaim! TV's Garageland videos once again brings you a crash course in punk rock. We have the New York hardcore insti...
Mark Kozelek
Lee's Palace, Toronto ON March 22
PUBLISHED Mar 24, 2011
There was gentle yet tangible air of excitement for Mark Kozelek in the packed Lee's Palace. The eclectic crowd varied considerably in age...
Onwards To Olympas
The War Within Us
PUBLISHED Mar 15, 2011
Onwards to Olympas cater to chosen subgenres, incorporating styles that have already proven successful. The uninventive chugga-chugga mosh-...
