Articles by Max Deneau

Nortt/Xasthur

Nedengang/A Curse For The Lifeless

PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2005

Recently licensed from a small European label by Southern Lord, this split release sees two of the genre’s finest deliver some of the most...

Still Remains

Of Love and Lunacy

PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2005

For every respectable group Roadrunner signs in a desperate attempt to regain the credibility they displayed in the early ’90s, another bol...

Taste of Blood

Predator

PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2005

Imagine if, as opposed to taking the tech metal side of the band to the nth degree with The Silent Circus, Between the Buried and Me had le...

Nine Inch Nails

PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2005

While sceptics continue to question Nine Inch Nails main man Trent Reznor’s relevance in light of a six-year disappearance (supposedly the...

Embrace the End

Counting Hallways to the Left

PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2005

All the ingredients for a rehashing of the same old by-the-numbers metalcore bollocks are here — it’s amazing how much Embrace the End do w...

Losa

The Perfect Moment

PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2005

Losa have created an album that is almost as difficult to listen to as it is to define. Lying somewhere between Converge, ambient prog, and...

Red Chord

Clients

PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2005

Their recent transition to Metal Blade prompted much speculation on this acclaimed group’s future direction, but rest assured, not a whole...

Various

American Music Press: Video Archive For The Ages, Vol. 1

PUBLISHED May 1, 2005

Essentially a compilation of music videos of varying genre and quality, the listener's enjoyment of this depends entirely upon one's dispos...