Articles by Bradley Zorgdrager

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  Down To Nothing

  Life on the James

  PUBLISHED Sep 9, 2013

  Down To Nothing are one of hardcore's most consistent bands. It's even more impressive that they manage to pump out quality release after q...

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  Calculator

  These Roots Grow Deep

  PUBLISHED Aug 27, 2013

  Calculator could have been the most hilarious moniker for a mathcore band ever. Instead, we're stuck with a screamo band that channel '90s...

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  Avenged Sevenfold

  Hail to the King

  PUBLISHED Aug 23, 2013

  Like an actual monarch, Avenged Sevenfold's latest, Hail to the King, will undoubtedly face intense public scrutiny. It is the group's firs...

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  Oathbreaker

  Eros/Anteros

  PUBLISHED Aug 19, 2013

  Oathbreaker's Eros Anteros sounds like a blackened take on Converge's latest two albums. The Belgians flip-flop (without being wishy-washy)...

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  Twitching Tongues

  In Love There Is No Law

  PUBLISHED Aug 19, 2013

  Twitching Tongues are an anomaly in hardcore. Not only do they focus on operatic singing over yelling, they're also hardcore/metal wunderki...

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  Old Wounds/Trenchfoot

  Split

  PUBLISHED Aug 13, 2013

  A split between Old Wounds and Trenchfoot is appropriate — even from a name standpoint. Trench foot is predominantly an older ailment...

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  Strengthen What Remains

  Turning a Blind Eye

  PUBLISHED Aug 9, 2013

  The lines between metalcore and heavy, metal-tinged hardcore (not to be confused with heavy metal-tinged) are blurring increasingly. In the...

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  Dead in the Dirt

  The Blind Hole

  PUBLISHED Aug 6, 2013

  Annihilating, bludgeoning and crushing are the ABCs of hype words used by critics to establish the next heavy record as exactly that: heavy...