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 […]
Album Review
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: 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: 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 […]
Hearing Aide: Escaper ‘Skeleton Key’
Brooklyn-based band Escaper recently released their debut album, Skeleton Key. Escaper consists of Will Hanza on guitar and vocals, Johnny Butler on saxophone, Adam Ahuja on keys, Jay Giacomazzo on bass and Andrew Nesbitt on drums. This seven track album takes listeners on an unpredictable stroll through exploratory tones, multicolored rhythms and colorful melodies full […]
Hearing Aide: A Fitting Revenge ‘Tempus Fugit’
Ever since my first local show experience in my hometown of Syracuse, N.Y, I was addicted to finding local bands. The one thing us New Yorkers know best is how to make our own brand of metal. Look around in the Central New York area and you will find some of the most talented bands […]
Hearing Aide: Leslie Mendelson ‘Love & Murder’
With so much noise going on in the world today due to technology, from cell phone beeps and rings to endless updates on various apps, it’s easy to get lost in the computer-strung clutter. The one enjoyment that can take an individual away from the murky shadows of continuous information overload is music. Sure, there are endless amounts of […]
Hearing Aide: Big Mean Sound Machine ‘Runnin’ for the Ghost’
Big Mean Sound Machine is an instrumental funk group which has been evolving since the summer of 2009. The adjectives in the band’s name are normally used to describe a Godzilla-like monster and this 9-piece out of Ithaca, NY has a sound that is far from gorgeous. While members have come and gone to aid in […]