Articles by Bradley Zorgdrager

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  Trapped Under Ice/Dirty Money

  Trapped Under Ice/Dirty Money

  PUBLISHED Jun 20, 2012

  Reissues provide the chance for a retrospective look on the recordings, while splits, inadvertently, create competition between the partici...

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  Homewrecker

  Worms and Dirt

  PUBLISHED Jun 20, 2012

  Homewrecker's latest release, Worms and Dirt, opens with a sound clip in which a lady suggests a band are corrupting the young in her socie...

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  Whitechapel

  Whitechapel

  PUBLISHED Jun 19, 2012

  There really needs to be a name for bands that sidestep the sophomore slump only to stumble on their subsequent album. Whitechapel would fi...

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  Burning Love

  Rotten Thing to Say

  PUBLISHED Jun 19, 2012

  Burning Love and Cursed (vocalist Chris Colohan's previous genre-defining group) are both visceral, though for entirely different reasons....

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  The Ghost Inside

  Get What You Give

  PUBLISHED Jun 19, 2012

  Taking their current moniker in 2007, the Ghost Inside didn't make a huge splash in the metalcore scene until the 2010 release of Returners...

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  Looking Forward

  Down With the Ship

  PUBLISHED Jun 19, 2012

  This is Looking Forwards' first release in seven years and in contrast to the pessimistic title, the EP is a rather triumphant return to fo...

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  Miss May I

  At Heart

  PUBLISHED Jun 12, 2012

  As a question, "Miss, may I?" suggests a certain level of decorum, but the usage here is actually as the moniker of a metal band. However,...

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  Architects

  Daybreaker

  PUBLISHED Jun 6, 2012

  Following up 2011's critically acclaimed, but extensively fan-panned, The Here and Now, Architects' new album, Daybreaker, continues the ba...