This album is a true inspiration to aspiring artists and those currently running through the trials and tribulations of beginning adulthood. It’s a complicated time to be alive but it’s comforting to know that there’s a number of people in the same place in life. This is a thoroughly impressive album from an orchestral and […]
Album Reviews
Hearing Aide: Incantation ‘Profane Nexus’
Death metal has many faces, much like the seven headed beast that rises from the sea! It can have the speed and ferocious nature of a great white shark, thrashing while tearing the flesh apart without mercy! Or the infernal beast can take a sickening slow approach. Slowly filling your body and soul with dread […]
Hearing Aide: Wintersun ‘The Forest Seasons’
With the seasons being so diverse in their nature, many find comfort with each emotion they bring along with them. The cold bitterness of winter as wildlife and forestation finds rests, the welcoming embrace of spring when life resurrects again, summer brings the heat to keep our spirits filled with fire, and fall the season […]
Hearing Aide: Venomous Maximus ‘No Warning’
Over the years, Black Sabbath has been known to create not only the metal genre as a whole, but also inspired so many sub-genres from the roots of all things heavy. Because of the wall of sound and the occult themes, many fans were mesmerized by that approach and set out on pilgrimages to create […]
Hearing Aide: The Southern Belles ‘In the Middle of the Night’
The sort of plasmic, shape-shifting rock and roll spawned by The Southern Belles of Richmond, VA, has been released to humans everywhere for their listening and dancing pleasure on August 5. Their third album, In the Middle of the Night, is oddly akin to Willie Wonka’s three course dinner chewing gum, in that, through the consumption […]
Hearing Aide: SkyDaddy ‘Wide Eyes’
Two years succeeding their debut, self-titled EP as a funky musical quartet, SkyDaddy makes a comeback with their latest EP Wide Eyes, due out on all digital platforms come August 1. Dave Heinz (bass/vox), Joe North (saxophone/EWI), Tom Claney (guitar/vox) and Pat Agresta (drums) fit together as a jazzy-funk ensemble with nods of soul and […]
Hearing Aide: Haakon’s Fault ‘Waning Gibbous’
New York City based progressive rock band, Haakon’s Fault, has recently released their brand-new EP, Waning Gibbous. Despite the four-track project’s shortness, the band’s style and skill level is well showcased, combining elements of both wailing and grunge guitar offset by the entrance of a clean vocal by lead vocalist, Harry McNamara. The EP’s opening self-titled […]
Hearing Aide: Diluted ‘Never Fit In’
Hearing Aide: Benn Rymon Drops ‘A Long Time’
A Pennsylvanian both by nature and at heart, rapper Benn Rymon and his beats are now based out of Plattsburgh, NY, where he continues to record and perform just as he’s been doing since the 90s. This time, his ideas were carefully crafted into his solo debut album, A Long Time. Normally, he’d be found […]
Hearing Aide: Intrepid Travelers ‘Everyday is Your Birthday’ EP
One of New York State Music’s 87/90 bands, Intrepid Travelers, is set to release their EP Everyday Is Your Birthday on Thursday June 29th. The CD release event will be in their hometown of Buffalo at Buffalo Iron Works. Birthdays: those special “holidays” that allow individuals to celebrate another year of existence with family and […]