Articles by Dave Synyard

Darkest Hour

The Eternal Return

PUBLISHED Jun 26, 2009

The Eternal Return lives up to its name. Washington, D.C.'s Darkest Hour are back with an incredibly shred-heavy album that has a wonderful...

Glassjaw Finish First Proper Release in Seven Years

PUBLISHED Jun 25, 2009

Not since 2002's Worship and Tribute have Long Island, NY's Glassjaw blessed the underground hardcore scene with any new music. Lead man an...

Kate Moss Sends Six New Kills Songs to a Watery Death

PUBLISHED Jun 24, 2009

Leave it to a celebrity couple to make a splash by sending six new songs by the Kills to a watery demise. Apparently, band member Jamie Hin...

Poison the Well Are Polite

PUBLISHED Jun 23, 2009

Miami, Florida's Poison the Well started pushing the boundaries of aggressive music in 1999 on their first album, The Opposite of December....

Jimmy Page and Jack White Hate On <i>Guitar Hero</i>

PUBLISHED Jun 23, 2009

Jimmy Page and White Stripe Jack White recently gathered at a press conference in Los Angeles to discuss their new documentary, It Might Ge...

Iwrestledabearonce

It's All Happening

PUBLISHED Jun 10, 2009

Contrary to what this album title wants you to believe, "it" isn't happening, at least not at first. Only after a two-and-a-half-minute wei...

A Secret Death

A Secret Death

PUBLISHED Jun 9, 2009

Hailing from Gold Coast, Australia, A Secret Death are quite reminiscent of the Bled in many ways. They feature vocals akin to James Mu&nti...

Narrows

New Distances

PUBLISHED May 24, 2009

Hardcore has never been so haunted, so minimalist and so dissonant as it is on New Distances, the first full-length from Narrows, featuring...