Articles by Scotty Harms

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  Hopes Die Last

  Trust No One

  PUBLISHED Feb 14, 2012

  As we count down the final seconds of a scene that doesn't try to exploit nu-dubstep, it's Italian quintet Hopes Die Last that finally shut...

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  The Devastated

  Devil's Messenger

  PUBLISHED Feb 14, 2012

  Formed from pieces of Impending Doom and Oblige, Riverside, CA outfit the Devastated shift their focus to kick-heavy, downtuned deathcore w...

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  Skin Like Iron/Nails

  Skin Like Iron/Nails

  PUBLISHED Jan 31, 2012

  Busting out of the gate atop a punchy, melodic attack descended from '90s Epitaph skate punk, San Francisco, CA's Skin Like Iron have their...

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  Blessed By A Broken Heart

  Feel The Power

  PUBLISHED Jan 24, 2012

  After middle-aged listeners renounce the mainstream music and fashion they loved when they were younger, followed by a couple of decades in...

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  Devil's Blood

  The Thousandfold Epicentre

  PUBLISHED Jan 17, 2012

  They say never judge a book by its cover, or an album by its nonsensical title. Yet it's hard to begin a sitting of The Thousandfold Epicen...

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  Birds In Row

  Collected

  PUBLISHED Jan 17, 2012

  Currently locked in a studio several hours outside Paris are an act milking their venom for a debut full-length for Deathwish Inc. While th...

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  Beneath Oblivion

  From Man to Dust

  PUBLISHED Nov 29, 2011

  One would be left with the impression that Cincinnati, OH is a deserted wasteland where the sun never shines if Beneath Oblivion were to be...

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  Like Moths To Flames

  When We Don't Exist

  PUBLISHED Nov 28, 2011

  It's not a huge stretch to imagine what a band's debut full-length is going to sound like if it's released on Rise; the label has a unfortu...