Kent Fairman Wilson and Harold Taddy’s album “Ode and Elegy” took four years to record and featured musicians from around the world.
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The new-look Photo City Music Hall is still a haven for punk, metal, and EDM
Danny Nielsen took a risk in renovating Photo City Music Hall during the live-concert hiatus, but its reputation helped keep things afloat.
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Greg Best offers ‘new sacred space’ from trauma on ‘Damage’ EP
Rochester musician Greg Best’s new EP chronicles his journey to mental wellness in the face of emotional trauma with honesty, intensity, and a dark pop-metal soundtrack.
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Album review: ‘Haishen’
On its three-song debut, the Rochester trio Haishen has created a sprawling post-rock sound that relies heavily on progressive metal aesthetics, as well as slowly unfolding and unpredictable song structures.
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HomeStage: Sulaco
While the shutdown is not allowing the metal band Sulaco to perform live, it’s not stopping them from performing together — as demonstrated by the new song “Cutup.”
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Album review: ‘The World Game’
Invictra “The World Game” Self-released invictraband.bandcamp.com Dude … Dude … first of all, what an absolutely killer guitar tone. Killer. Same goes for the vocals, roaring heavy and relatable, because they’re discernible for a change; rabid, angry, and snarling but discernible. Holy shit, let me say that this is some of the best metal I’ve […]
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Album review: ‘Never Fit In’
Diluted “Never Fit In” Self-released dilutedband.bandcamp.com The cover artwork by drummer Dusty West for Diluted’s debut EP, “Never Fit In,” is in many ways a perfect package for the tunes. Colorful and in conflict, the illustrated montage of chaos pulls no punches and leaves room for the ensuing aggression. Diluted draws from several metal subgenres, […]
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Album review: ‘Taphonomy’
Bailey Mason Lickers “Taphonomy” Self-released Bmlmusic2.bandcamp.com Here’s the perfect soundtrack to those skate park blooper reels where a kid wipes out on a half-pipe and breaks everything when he eventually lands. Or maybe a NASCAR race with opposing traffic. Instrumental power house Bailey Mason Lickers — or BML — has arrived with these two descriptive […]
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Dan Lilker stays sincere
Metal stalwart Dan Lilker is making some of the most intense music of his career right here in Rochester
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METAL | Battlecross
Detroit’s more recent musical exports have largely carried a dark and nihilistic aura. Hip-hop’s resident goth kid, Danny Brown, has spent the better part of a decade begging to fall into a “kush coma.” And the glassy-eyed Protomartyr have won no shortage of fans with its monotone doomsaying. In a regional scene dominated by such […]
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Lita Ford endures and always will
Hard rock and metal share a list of infallible constants — things that will always ring true; things that are undeniable. These are mostly unwritten but universally understood in a world where the guitar is the hammer of the gods. For instance: volume? In the red. Drums? Thundering. And another constant, one that has always […]
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Ghost does the devil’s work
Those in the metal world, especially ones more nefariously centered, present core beliefs and behaviors couched in theatrical evil: lightning speed, crushing volume, and gruesome lyrics emitted from somewhere deep within the vocalist’s bowels. It’s all about the head-bang. But through this bombastic display, it can frequently come off as a lampoon of evil, a […]
