Articles by Bradley Zorgdrager

Parkway Drive

Ire

PUBLISHED Sep 23, 2015

Inject a little bit of core into metal and you lose the average hesher, though the verdict's still out on what happens when you ratchet up...

The Black Dahlia Murder Talk Death Metal, Horror and 'Abysmal'

PUBLISHED Sep 22, 2015

For Michigan's the Black Dahlia Murder, the problem was never playing death metal, it was people accusing them of being metalcore, deathcor...

Atreyu

Long Live

PUBLISHED Sep 16, 2015

Atreyu vocalist Alex Varkatzas previously said the album that would become Long Live could be the "missing link record" that should have co...

Of Feather and Bone

Embrace the Wretched Flesh

PUBLISHED Sep 16, 2015

Of Feather and Bone hail from Denver, a city so blessed with natural beauty that it's more an attraction than anything man-made. You'd be h...

The Black Dahlia Murder

Abysmal

PUBLISHED Sep 16, 2015

The Black Dahlia Murder are death metal's Little Engine That Could. While many wrote them off (as metalcore, deathcore or any other subgenr...

Bring Me the Horizon

That's the Spirit

PUBLISHED Sep 11, 2015

While many of deathcore's practitioners have folded, it's really only those who evolved beyond brutality that have continued to succeed. Br...

Eternal Sleep

Association Récréative de Gatineau (ARG), Gatineau QC, September 6

PUBLISHED Sep 7, 2015

It has to be a challenge to play dark music in the daylight, especially when the venue is awash in it thanks to a wall of windows. Eternal...

Malfunction

Association Récréative de Gatineau (ARG), Gatineau QC, September 6

PUBLISHED Sep 7, 2015

The most exciting moments of Malfunction's set didn't come when they played their newer, more metalcore-leaning songs, but when they played...