Tag: Deftones

  • Festival preview: Aftershock 2018

    Festival preview: Aftershock 2018

    With summer in full swing, as everyone heads (and has headed) out and about to take in their favorite music festival, let’s not forget one experience that is a must for any music lover: Monster Energy’s Aftershock Festival. Aftershock takes place October 13th and 14th in beautiful Discovery Park, located in Sacramento, California. For the 7th…

  • Hellfest 2018 in review: Day 2

    Hellfest 2018 in review: Day 2

    One could have felt that the weekend had come to Hellfest, as the festival site was more than overfilled on Saturday, the second fest day. That was not a problem; people there did not give much of a damn about the melting heat or the overcrowded sites. Good music and cold beer made it all great!…

  • Palms – s/t

    Really, Palms sounds like the best of Moreno’s world crossed with the best of Isis’ world knit neatly together – and fans of all of it can find something to love in this run-time.

  • Deftones – Koi No Yokan

    KNY may be Deftones most melodic album to date. However, they maintain enough crunch so as not to sound like they’ve gone soft.

  • Soen – Cognitive

    Soen – Cognitive

    Cognitive by Lopez and Co is an excellent debut album, full of intelligent and engaging song material which should thrill the Porcupine Tree, Tool, A Perfect Circle, Oceansize and Amplifier crowds.

  • The Cult – Choice Of Weapon

    The Cult – Choice Of Weapon

    Without further ado I want to state that Choice Of Weapon is an excellent rock album that can easily hold its own against classic The Cult albums, like Love(1985), Electric (1987) and Sonic Temple (1989). It’s quite a statement, but Choice Of Weapon is simply that good.

  • NAMM – Music product trade show, or excuse for Hellbound writer to party?

    Jay H. Gorania didn’t actually get into NAMM, one of the world’s largest music product trade shows in LA; however he did manage to soak up the event’s pretentious atmosphere, as well as some killer performances by The Devin Townsend Experience, Cynic, Scale The Summit, Suicide Silence and The Iron Maidens.

  • Doing The Devil’s Work: An Interview with Amy Sciarretto

    “I get so many emails a day, through Facebook and even through my personal email account from people who don’t know me – and even people who do know me,” explains music journalist Amy Sciarretto, who teamed up with her friend and colleague Rick Florino to pen Do the Devil’s Work for Him: How to…