Articles by Bradley Zorgdrager

Converge

on Exclaim! TV Aggressive Tendencies

PUBLISHED Apr 29, 2015

Hitting the quarter-century mark is an accomplishment in and of itself, but even in their 25th year of existence — relatively elderly...

Nightrage

The Puritan

PUBLISHED Apr 24, 2015

Nightrage are best known as Tomas "Tompa" Lindberg's safest post-At the Gates project (read: most similar to the band that made him a house...

Lifeless

Dream

PUBLISHED Mar 23, 2015

Mosh metal is a lost art. The fusion of metal and hardcore with the unifying purpose of encouraging moshing was essentially swallowed by sr...

Disgrace

True Enemy

PUBLISHED Mar 23, 2015

While metalcore, the fusion of metal and hardcore, took its time to go from All Out War to an all out bore, deathcore's fusion of metalcore...

Veil of Maya Announce First Album with New Singer, Share Video

PUBLISHED Mar 23, 2015

Chicago djenty deathcore band Veil of Maya have announced their fourth full-length for Sumerian Records. Matriarch will come out on May 12...

All That Remains

The Order of Things

PUBLISHED Feb 24, 2015

The Order of Things is an appropriate album name for one that clearly has its best song first; it's almost as if "This Probably Won't End W...

Nasty

Shokka

PUBLISHED Feb 20, 2015

Belgian band Nasty's new album, Shokka, is rife with contradictions: the cover features a graffiti-esque logo — fitting for their thu...

Napalm Death / Voivod / Exhumed / Iron Reagan / Black Crown Initiate

Opera House, Toronto ON, February 4

PUBLISHED Feb 5, 2015

The "Through Space and Grind" tour kicked off with a band leaning toward the former, spacey side of things. Perpetual openers Black Crown I...