Artist: The Sign of the Southern Cross
Album: Of Mountains and Moonshine
Label: Season of Mist
Websites:www.myspace.com/southerncrossband
www.season-of-mist.com
The Sign of the Southern Cross is:
Seth Uldricks – vocals, guitar
Adam Ranke – bass
Brett Wilson – drums
Hailing from North Carolina, the same wonderland that bore Corrosion of Conformity, The Sign of the Southern Cross are the latest in a long line of [...]
November 17, 2009
Categories: Album Review . Tags: The Sign Of The Southern Cross . Author: mattrychlik . Comments: Leave a Comment
Artist: Slayer
Album: World Painted Blood
Label: American
Website: www.slayer.net
Slayer is:
Tom Araya – vocals, bass
Kerry King – guitar
Jeff Hanneman – guitar
Dave Lombardo – drums
I might find myself in the minority here, but I actually liked Slayer’s past 2 studio albums, 2001’s “God Hates Us All” and 2006’s “Christ Illusion”. While I got into Slayer a lot later than [...]
November 12, 2009
Categories: Album Review . Tags: Slayer, World Painted Blood . Author: mattrychlik . Comments: Leave a Comment
Artist: Skeletonwitch
Album: Breathing the Fire
Label: Prosthetic Records
Websites: www.myspace.com/skeletonwitch
www.prostheticrecords.com
The liner notes to their 2nd Prosthetic Records album quotes the band’s credo and perfectly sumsup what they’re all about: “We’re Skeletonwitch from Athens, Ohio! Drink beer, smoke weed, and eat some fucking pussy!” I couldn’t have said it any better myself. I really thought I [...]
October 20, 2009
Categories: Album Review . Tags: breathing the fire, Pantera, Prosthetic records, Skeletonwitch, Slayer . Author: mattrychlik . Comments: Leave a Comment
Artist: Doomsday Refreshment Committee
Album: Hail To The Freaks
Label: Digivirus
Website: hailtothefreaks.com or vampirefreaks.com/drc
Ok, so this album is not even close to new. It came out in 2007. But one of the things we strive for at HTP is to promote indie bands, and this one fits the bill perfectly. Not only that, but the album is [...]
October 15, 2009
Categories: Album Review, Video . Tags: D.R.C., doomsday refreshment committee, DRC, goth, gothic, hail to the freaks, industrial, metal, music, Review . Author: cthullhu . Comments: Leave a Comment
Artist: The Red Chord
Album: Fed Through The Teeth Machine
Label: Metalblade
Website: http://www.myspace.com/theredchord
The Red Chord is part of a long legacy of great bands to rise to prominence out of Massachusetts. In the early 2000’s bands like Killswitch Engage, Unearth and Shadows Fall led an vibrant and creative metal, thrash and hardcore scene within the Commonwealth. The [...]
October 14, 2009
Categories: Album Review . Tags: Dying Fetus, Killswitch Engage, Metalblade Records, Napalm Death, Shadows Fall, The Red Chord, Unearth . Author: htpwriter . Comments: Leave a Comment
Artist: Doomriders
Album: Darkness Come Alive
Label: Deathwish Inc.
Websites: www.myspace.com/doomriders
& www.deathwishinc.com
If you were unaware of the regular bands that
the members of Doomriders call home,
then you wouldn’t realize that Doomriders is
more than just a mere side project, it’s more like a hardcore supergroup. Granted, I wouldn’t necessarily
classify this as a hardcore record. It’s actually difficult for me to
classify [...]
October 12, 2009
Categories: Album Review . Tags: Darkness Come Alive, Deathwish records, Doomriders, Glenn Danzig, Mastodon . Author: mattrychlik . Comments: Leave a Comment
Artist: Rosaline
Album: A Constant North
Label: Eulogy Recordings
Website: myspace.com/rosaline
(I am reviewing this album as requested by a post in our comments. If you have an album you want us to review, shoot us an email to hitthepit@websiteultra.com and let us know!)
Rosaline is what I would call a punkcore band. They mix keyboards and jazzy mellow guitar [...]
October 9, 2009
Categories: Album Review, Opinion, Video . Tags: a constant north, angels and airwaves, hardcore, metal, new album, punk, punkcore, Review, rosaline . Author: cthullhu . Comments: 2 Comments
Artist: Horse The Band
Album: Desperate Living
Label: Vagrant Records
Website: http://www.vagrant.com/artist/index/51
Horse The Band in completely unclassifiable! Not to mention inaccessible to the masses. From where I sit, that is the beauty of this band. In a world where bands like Papa Roach put out an album every 3 years and change their sound to the chic sound [...]
October 8, 2009
Categories: Album Review . Tags: 80's synth, Converge, Desperate Living, Dillinger Escape Plan, Faith No More, hardcore, Horse The Band, nintendocore, Shai Hulud, thrash, Vagrant Records . Author: htpwriter . Comments: Leave a Comment
Artist: Shrinebuilder
Album: Self-titled
Label: Neurot Recordings
Websites: www.myspace.com/shrinebuildergroup & www.neurotrecordings.com
On their debut EP, stoner rock supergroup Shrinebuilder show off their
chops as well as allow themselves a chance to jam a little outside of the
constraints of their respective day jobs. The group, consisting of
Neurosis’ Scott Kelly (guitar & vocals), The Melvins’ Dale Crover (drums),
Al Cisneros of Sleep and [...]
October 7, 2009
Categories: Album Review . Tags: Black Sabbath, Neurosis, Neurot recordings, Om, Scott Weinrich, Shrinebuilder, The Melvins, Wino . Author: mattrychlik . Comments: Leave a Comment
Artist: The Destro
Album: Harmony Of Discord
Label: Ironclad Recordsings
Website: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=4545289
A few years back Trevor Phipps (Unearth) started a label called Ironclad Recordings with an eye on signing indie bands he got a chub for. Over the course of this time his label has put out a number of nasty releases, but with The Destro – he [...]
October 6, 2009
Categories: Album Review . Tags: Harmony Of Discord, Ironclad recordings, Ken Susi, Metal Blade Records, Napalm Death, Sepultura, The Destro, Trevor Phipps . Author: htpwriter . Comments: 1 Comment
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