Current Record Reviews
(updated 06-30-04)
Must Have
(updated 12-3-03)
Archived Record Reviews
Stand & Fight: Self Titled
(Bridge 9)
Machine Head: THrough the Ashes of Empires
No Redeeming Social Value: NRSV-HCTV
(Scar Promotions)
Challenger: Giving People What They Want In Lethal Doses
(Jadetree)
Candiria: What Doesn't Kill You
(Type A)
Some Kind of Hate: Undisputed
(Bridge 9)
As I Lay Dying: Frail Words Collapse
(Metal Blade)
Ghostface: Pretty Toney
(Def Jam)
Slipknot: Vol 3
(Roadrunner)
Mission of Burma:ONoffOn
(Matador)
Autopilot Off: Make A Sound
(Island)
Slapshot: Diggitel Warfare
(Bridge 9)
Kanye West: The College Drop Out
(Roc-A-Fella)
Jay-Z: The Black Album
(Roc-A-Fella)
Full Blown Chaos: Prophet of Hostility:
(Stillborn)
Strike Anywhere: Exit English
(Jade Tree)
Killswitch Engage: The End of Heartache
(Roadrunner)
Charge: Universal Tribe
(hellbent)
Against Me!: As the Eternal Cowboy
(Fat)
Billyclub Sandwich: Chin Music
(Inner Strength)
From Ashes Rise: Nightmares
(Jade Tree)
Madball: Best of (roadrunner)
Outburst: Miles to Go (blackout)
Bad Brains: Greatest Riffs (caroline)
Verbal Assault: The Masses and Learn (mendit)
Gang Green: You Got It/Older (roadrunner)
Uppercut: Four Walls (blackout)
Verbal Abuse – “Just an American Band” (Beer City)
The Faith/Void split LP and Faith Subject to Change EP – (Dischord)
Dischord 1981 - The Year In Seven Inches - Dischord
D.R.I. – Greatest Hits (Deadline)
Slapshot – Greatest Hits, Slashes, and Crosschecks – (Bridge Nine)
Broken Bones – Bonecrusher – (Relapse)
Demonspeed – Kill, Kill, Kill – (Black Pumpkin)
Small Brown Bike: The River Bed (lookout)
Coheed & Cambria: In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth (equal vision)
Small Brown Bike: The River Bed (lookout)
Coheed & Cambria: In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth (equal vision)
Pennywise: From the Ashes (epitaph)
Atmosphere: Seven’s Travels (rhymesayers)
Death By Stereo: Into the Valley of Death (epitaph)
The Raveonettes: Chain Gang of Love (columbia)
Fall Out Boy: Take This to Your Grave (fueled by ramen)
Greenhaven: Mobile Home Park 1038 (self effin’ dropped)
Brand New: Deja Entendu (triple crown)
Sick of it All: Life on the Ropes (fat)
DMX: Grand Champ (def jam)
The Darkness: Permission to Land (atlantic)
Throwdown: Haymaker (trustkill)
Avenged Sevenfold: Waking the Fallen (hopeless)
North SIde Kings/ Stampin’ Ground: Allied Forces (thorp)
Freddy vs. Jason: soundtrack (roadrunner)
Give Up The Ghost: We’re Down Til We’re Underground (equal vision)
Northern State: Dying By Stereo (columbia)
A Perfect Circle: Thirteenth Step (virgin)
Scissorfight, Pelican, Austerity Program: Tour 7” (tortuga)
Big Collapse: Prototype (militia group)
Hot Water Music: Caution (epitaph)
Iron Maiden: Dance of Death (columbia)
Turbo Negro: Scandinavian Leather (burning heart)
Acceptance: Black Lines to Battlefields (militia group)
Scissorfight: Deathchants, Breakdowns and Military Waltzes Vol. 2 (tortuga)
Bear vs. Shark: Right Now You’re In The Best Hands (equal vision)
Ryan Adams: Rock ‘n’ Roll (lost highway)
Lo Pro: Lo Pro (geffen)
Dukes of Nothing: War and Wine (tortuga)
Andrew W.K.: The Wolf (island)
M2 Headbangers Ball: Comp (roadrunner)
Inhuman: The New Nightmare (a-f records)
Powerslaves: An Elektro Tribute to Iron Maiden
Bob Markey & the Wailers: Live at the Roxy (island)
Alexisonfire: Alexisonfire (equal vision)
Pretty Girls Make Grave: The New Romance (matador)
Thrice, “The Artist in the Ambulance” (Island)
The Bronx, “White Drugs” (Ferret)
Duss Mitty, “Cash In Cash Out” (Ground Up)
Good Riddance, “Bound by Ties of Love and Affection” (Fat)
Joe Budden, “Pump It Up” (Def Jam)
Keith Murray, “He’s Keith Murray” (Def Jam)
Milwaukee Metalfest Comp (Nightfall/Terrorizer Records)
Minor Threat, “First Demo Tape” ( Dischord)
NOFX, “War on Errorism” (Fat)
None More Black, “File Under Black” (Fat Wreck Chords)
On the Rise, “Burning Inside” (Bridge Nine)
Shai Hulud, “That Within Blood Ill Tempered” (Revelation)
Thursday/Thrice, Split 7” (Island)
Turbo Negro, “Scandinavian Leather” Burning Heart/ Epitaph
Slayer, “War at the Warfield” (American)
The Mad Capsule Markets - 020120 – Speedstar
Articles of Faith – AOF Complete Volumes 1 & 2 – Alternative Tentacles
Machine Head – Hellalive – Roadrunner
Rites of Spring – Dischord
Scream – Dischord
Hang On The Box – Yellow Banana – Scream Records
Thursday – Waiting – Eyeball
Movielife – Forty Hour Train Back to Penn – Drive Thru
Freeway – Philadelphia – Roc-A-Fella
Clark – Seven Songs – Demo
Souxsie and the Banshees – Greatest Hits – Geffen
Type O Negative – Life Is Killing Me – Roadrunner
The All-American Rejects - Dreamworks
Boy Sets Fire – Tomorrow Come Today – Wind-Up
Breakdown - 1987 Demo CD - Blackout
Cursive – The Ugly Organ – Saddle Creek,
Glassjaw – Worship and Tribute – Warner Bros.
The Buzzcocks – Merge
The Exploited – Fuck the System – Spitfire
Voivod, Voivod (Chophouse/Surfdog)
Sworn Enemy, As Real As It Gets, (No Name/Elektra)
Blur – Think Tank (Parlaphone)
Detroit Cobras – Seven Easy Pieces – Rough Trade
DRI – Dealing With It – Beer City
Rise Against – Revolutions Per Minute – Fat Wreck Chords
E-Town Concrete – The Renaissance (Razor & Tie)
R. Kelly, Chocolate Factory (Jive)
Boomkat, Boomkatalog.One (Dreamworks)
The Blood Brothers, “…Burn, Piano Island, Burn” (Artist-Direct)
Since By Man, We Sing the Body Electric (Revelation)
U.S. Bombs, Covert Action, (Hellcat)
The Haunted, One Kill Wonder, (Earache)
Alkaline Trio, Good Mourning, (Vagrant)
American Hi-Fi – The Art of Losing – Island
Ms. Dynamite – A Little Deeper – Interscope
Hopesfall – The Satellite Years – Trustkill
Avail – Front Porch Stories – Fat Wreck Chords
Against Me – The Disco Before the Breakdown – No Idea
Terror – Lowest of the Low – Bridge 9
Converge – Unloved and Weeded Out – Deathwish
Rise Above: 24 Black Flag Songs To Benefit The West Memphis 3 - (Sanctuary Records)
We’re A Happy Family: Tribute to the Ramones
U2 – Best of 1990-2000 – Interscope
Supergrass – Life On Other Planets – Island
Thursday- “five stories falling” (Victory)
Dag Nasty – “Minority of One” (Revelation)
Charge – “Eye For All” - (Rebel Soul
H2O – “All We Want EP” (MCA)
Scissorfight – “Potential New Agent for Unconventional Warfare” (Tortuga)
Raised Fist – “Dedication” (Epitaph)
Allister – “Last Stop Suburbia” (Drive Thru)
G.B.H. – “HAHA” (Go-Kart)
Revelation 100 - A Fifteen Year Retrospective of Rare Recordings “Revelation”
Overkill – “Live”(Spitfire)
Matt Skiba & Kevin Seconds - split CD (Asian Man)
Sergio Vega - The Ray Martin Sessions - GrapeOS
Sean Paul - Dutty Rock - Atlantic
Detroit Cobras – “Life, Love and Leaving - Sympathy for the Record Industry”
New Found Glory: Sticks and Stones
Hatebreed, “Perserverance” (Universal)
Snapcase, “End Transmission” (Victory)
The Distillers, “Sing, Sing Death House (Hellcat)
Damone, “From the Attic” (RCA)
Finch, “What It Is To Burn” (Drive-Thru)
Bane, “Give Blood” Equal Vision)
Count the Stars, “never to be taken alive” (Victory)
Toxic Narcotic, “We’re All Doomed” (Go-Kart)
Gza/Genius, “Legend of the Liquid Sword” (MCA)
Johnny Cash, “America IV: The Man Comes Around” (American)
Taking Back Sunday, “Tel all your friends” (Victory)
Los Crudos, “Discographia” (Beat Generation)
The Hope Conspiracy, “Endnote” (Equal Vision)