Articles by Bradley Zorgdrager

Old Wounds

From Where We Came Is Where We'll Rest

PUBLISHED Feb 26, 2013

Old Wounds is a great moniker for a young band (all members are under 21) playing metallic hardcore, a genre that reared its ugly head duri...

Within the Ruins

Elite

PUBLISHED Feb 26, 2013

Within The Ruins are that hyperactive, boisterous kid at your family gathering: at first endearing for his/her antics, soon you wish they'd...

Gateways

Departures

PUBLISHED Feb 19, 2013

According to Oxford Dictionaries, melody requires a sequence of notes to be "musically satisfying." As such, Gateways' classification as a...

Gateways

Departures

PUBLISHED Feb 18, 2013

Melody requires a sequence of notes to be "musically satisfying." As such, Gateways' classification as a melodic metalcore band is erroneou...

Baptists

Bushcraft

PUBLISHED Feb 18, 2013

Converge are a band who are often imitated, but never duplicated. Unfortunately, those imitations more often irritate than innovate, or eve...

Vessels

Black Teeth

PUBLISHED Feb 12, 2013

It's difficult to sum up mediocrity. For a band to walk the tightrope between good and awful, and to subsequently point out exactly where a...

Elysion Fields

New Beginnings

PUBLISHED Feb 12, 2013

Elysion Fields's New Beginnings could have been big in 2005. Unfortunately, it's 2012 and "their" sound (actually As I Lay Dying, Killswitc...

Quebec's Heartfest Reveals 2013 Lineup with Risky Business, Guns Up!, Code Orange Kids

PUBLISHED Feb 12, 2013

Heartfest, Canada's largest hardcore festival, has finally announced the lineup for the 2013 edition — the fest's seventh year. Despi...