Articles by Bradley Zorgdrager

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  The Faceless / After the Burial / Rings of Saturn / Toothgrinder

  Hard Luck Bar, Toronto ON, November 23

  PUBLISHED Nov 24, 2015

  Billed as "The Return Of The Faceless," the California technical death metal band's new tour is their effort to break back onto the scene t...

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  Bring Me the Horizon

  on Exclaim! TV Aggressive Tendencies

  PUBLISHED Nov 18, 2015

  On That's the Spirit, Bring Me the Horizon move forward from metal to a more alt-rock sound, without looking back, so when vocalist Oli Syk...

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  Norma Jean

  on Exclaim! TV Aggressive Tendencies

  PUBLISHED Oct 22, 2015

  For this new series on our Exclaim! TV's Aggressive Tendencies channel, we're looking back on bands' essential albums. Nostalgic Tendencies...

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  Pentimento

  I, No Longer

  PUBLISHED Oct 21, 2015

  On I, No Longer, Pentimento face heartbreak head-on. Rather than immersing themselves in a world of substances, meaningless sex or bitterne...

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  State Champs

  Around the World and Back

  PUBLISHED Oct 14, 2015

  State Champs named their sophomore LP after the extended voyage that followed 2013's excellent The Finer Things. Around the World and Back...

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  White Widows Pact

  True Will

  PUBLISHED Oct 14, 2015

  When Carcass melo-ed out with 1993's Heartwork, the grind of their early work faded away. Fortunately, Brooklyn's White Widows Pact keep th...

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  Kennedy

  The Guilty Poor

  PUBLISHED Sep 30, 2015

  The debut full-length from Montreal metallic hardcore band Kennedy, The Guilty Poor, is stuck in purgatory between clean production, which...

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  Trivium

  The Silence in the Snow

  PUBLISHED Sep 25, 2015

  Trivium have a serious identity crisis, which is to say they don't really have much of an identity at all. After starting their career as a...