A Look At We Are The Catalyst: Monuments

Another Rock/Alternative/Metal band.  Again, saying that your band is “rock alternative metal” is about as descriptive to me as saying that a book is “fiction”.   The only times that I’d say a tag like that applies is either to an act that genuinely crafts very new, unique trends (even then, “Avant-garde metal/rock” is a bit more helpful) or to one that plays a bunch of different genres. 

I See Stars: Past and Present - Do they suck?

I have complicated feelings about this band (and, no, they're not that kind).

Rant: Heavy Does Not Equal Good

I have no real idea why, but it seems like a lot of the more die-hard heavy metal fans (those who have graduated on from listening to stuff like Sleeping With Sirens to, I dunno, Children of Bodom or something) seem to have this strange notion, that a band simply being heavy makes it much better.  And, thus, conversely, they state outright that a song that isn't as heavy as something else is somehow inferior.  

Review of Grey: "Grey EP"

A NEW CHALLENGER HAS ARRIVED (on Twitter, of course).  Grey, the band with a name so short that finding stuff about it on Google searches is quite annoying (and searching “Grey band” gets me stuff like Dir En Grey, which is just a bit different).  Adding the album title doesn't help, too, because it’s “Grey EP”.

A Review of Pyro, Ohio: "Before the Sun Sets..."

I take them following me as a challenge.

Post-hardcore is a very… populous musical genre.  Personally, I like it in concept, but in actual execution, the music is rather unsatisfactory.  I’ll like a post-hardcore song here and there, but many of the bands referring to themselves as such are so painfully samey and boring that I just can’t muster any enthusiasm for them, and I often find myself only looking into their songs on YouTube when I’m trying to find some hilariously dumb sissyfights in the comments (and I’m usually not disappointed).

Twitter-Twatter: Using Twitter to Make People Listen To Your Crappy Music

Twitter is a strange thing.  On one hand, it can be used to keep up on the news.  On another, it can be used to shamelessly project personal information to an uncaring public.  On a third (imagine that we’re some sort of three-armed mutant here), it can be used by various nobodies in a desperate attempt to generate publicity.  I know, I’m sounding like a bit of a hypocrite here (being a nobody myself), but I find their attempts to be… intriguing, to say the least.