Articles by Bradley Zorgdrager

Find the Right Party for You in Exclaim!'s Can't Miss Concerts: New Year's Eve Guide

PUBLISHED Dec 16, 2016

For some, a new year means a fresh start; for others it's just a continuation of the long thing we call life. But both sides, we imagine, w...

The Used Talk Their 15 Year Anniversary and How They Got from Their Debut to 'In Love and Death'

PUBLISHED Dec 15, 2016

Though many bands perform 10 year anniversary shows for their albums, the Used faced a bit of a conundrum; they have two equally beloved al...

Nu Metal Jumps Da Fuck Up (Again); Return of Korn Leads This 'Serenity of Suffering'

2016 in Lists

PUBLISHED Dec 8, 2016

The original nu metal explosion was the most mainstream burst for the genre since glam, and nothing since has surpassed it. Despite all the...

Zao

The Well-Intentioned Virus

PUBLISHED Dec 7, 2016

There was a time when Christian metal/hardcore bands, especially those that combined the two into a hellish fusion, were regularly outperfo...

Metallica

The Opera House, Toronto ON, November 29

PUBLISHED Nov 30, 2016

For Toronto Metallica fans, November 29 was something of a makeshift holiday; once the clock struck midnight — marking the changing of cale...

Rile

'Ethereal Existence' (EP stream)

PUBLISHED Nov 29, 2016

Sometimes life gets in the way, and such has been the case for Rile. Although they've been a band since 2009, they hardly have the mass of...

Plebeian Grandstand

False Highs, True Lows

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

Plebeian Grandstand play in an overwhelming, monolithic style. The sonic structure they've created False Highs, True Lows is dense but crum...

Obey the Brave

Young Blood

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

It's a little strange for a group that are so obviously riding the coattails of their former bands' success to have a song called "Self Mad...