Articles by Bradley Zorgdrager

Feared Discuss the Virtue of Independence and Sins of 'Synder'

PUBLISHED Jun 12, 2015

Synder — Swedish for "sins" — isn't just a fear for Christians everywhere, it's also the latest album by Feared, a band who are...

EXITS

'Self Deprecation' (album stream)

PUBLISHED Jun 12, 2015

In the same vein as their non-traditional music, the chaotic EXITS will release their first LP, Self Deprecation, on a Wednesday. Fortunate...

Failgiver

'Death Pose' (EP stream)

PUBLISHED Jun 5, 2015

Named after a line from a Trap Them song, Edmonton's Failgiver would not be out of place on a bill with those Deathwish Inc. noise mongers...

Feared

Synder

PUBLISHED May 22, 2015

Feared are a dark horse of a supergroup. Unlike many bands made up of a hybrid of larger names, this Stockholm-based collective have not si...

Arcturus

Arcturian

PUBLISHED May 22, 2015

Hailing from the same country as much of the fledgling black metal scene of 1990s, which prided itself on eliminating the bombast and techn...

Entrails

Obliteration

PUBLISHED May 19, 2015

The difference between the Gothenburg and Stockholm sounds — the dominant streams of 1990s Swedish death metal — comes down to...

Silverstein

I Am Alive In Everything I Touch

PUBLISHED May 15, 2015

More than any of their peers in the early 2000s movement colloquially known as "screamo," Silverstein have managed to stay relevant. While...

Come and Rest

Blacklist

PUBLISHED May 8, 2015

It's a little sad when you can trace the entirety of a band's sound to other active bands, even if those bands are pretty great. In the cas...