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Album Reviews

REVIEW: Autopsy “All Tomorrow’s Funerals”

NYS Music Staff Apr 4, 2012

From 1987 through 1995, it would be difficult to find a more pronounced and influential Death Metal band than Autopsy. During this time, the group paved the way for the medium, influencing many groups who became prominent members of the…

Interviews

BIOHAZARD discusses touring, release of “Reborn in Defiance”

NYS Music Staff Apr 4, 2012

Admittedly, I was first exposed to Biohazard when Beavis and Butthead were rocking out to “Punishment” during one of their old school episodes. No problems, there… That show kicked ass (huh huh.) Since that day, I have always followed the…

Album Reviews

REVIEW: COMMON ENEMY “As the World Burns”

NYS Music Staff Apr 4, 2012

As the World Burns, the 5th full length offering from Reading, Pa's ever vigilant Common Enemy shows no signs of slowing down and indeed finds the band even more the master of their excellent brand of thrashy punk rock than they were on…

Album Reviews

I CALL FIVES Someone That’s Not You is catchy, listenable

NYS Music Staff Mar 10, 2012

Someone That's Not You is a four song teaser for the upcoming full length release due in June by Washington Township, NJ's I Call Fives. It's often hard to get a good feel for a band based on a teaser, as it's usually half typical…

Metal/Hard Rock/Punk

KODIAK ISLAND BAND loses it’s meat and taters, calls it a day

NYS Music Staff Mar 7, 2012

Sad news from Watertown.... Kodiak Island Band is calling it quits. The band had this to say: "So after almost two years, Kodiak Island is going dark. The meat and taters of the group is relocating to California, and sadly this brings…

Interviews

TAKING BACK SUNDAY talks lineup changes, being influential

NYS Music Staff Mar 6, 2012

Long Island's Taking Back Sunday is a success story of a more traditional kind than is common today. The band was formed by Eddie Reyes in 1999. Reyes was already a veteran of such influential acts as Mind Over Matter and Inside, not to…

News

TAKING BACK SUNDAY lead singer Adam Lazzara hit by falling tree

NYS Music Staff Mar 6, 2012

Adam Lazzara, lead singer of Taking Back Sunday, was taking a smoke break outside of a Michigan recording studio last weekend when a tree suddenly fell on him. Only his leg was broken, but this proves that smoking is indeed a dangerous…

Album Reviews

HUMAANA’s Comfort is laid back, confident

NYS Music Staff Mar 4, 2012

Humaana - Comfort (Panic Records) Comfortable atmospheres line the tracks of Comfort, the E.P. that marks the first release by Boston's Humaana. Started as a studio project in 2009 by members of Late Nite Wars and Ryan Stack of Format…

News

Gnarstock 2012 in East Durham 8/18/2012!

NYS Music Staff Mar 2, 2012

Gnarstock 2012 is a 2 day event featuring over 40 bands, DJ's and acoustic acts. Tickets are 20 dollars and are available as a two day package only. Gnarstock is being held in East Durham, NY at the Michael J. Quill Irish Cultural and…

News

THE DEVASTATED Premieres New Music Video; Announces Tour with Fear Factory

NYS Music Staff Feb 29, 2012

THE DEVASTATED has teamed up with Metal Injection for the premiere of the music video for "Devil's Messenger", the title-track off their new album. Directed by RAGE and Kevin Boston, this is the first video from the band's debut album,…

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