Withered and Wake have been on a month-long tour of the US and Canada and their latest stop saw them at The Earl in East Atlanta Village. Being the last show of this run for the hometown blackened-death act Withered, I made my to The Earl to witness the mayhem

I feel like dancing, I feel like smiling, I feel like CRIMINAL CODE has done it again and created another killer LP entitled 2534, and I just can’t get enough of it! I love this band because their songs have so many sonic layers. Their post punk anthems have a

Alright everyone my girlfriend/partner/person who puts up with me is out running errands and will probably be back soon so I gotta make this quick. Not because the Scandinavian thrash gods Foreseen deserve to be short changed in an article, but mainly so my partner and I can catch up

All out total War! All out total Destruction! All out total Grindcore! This is what you are going to get when blasting the new SCUMWORM s/t EP! I really dig how under all of their rage, this band has deep caves of melodic sludge for the listener to dive into. I

In the 80’s we had them, but we didn’t have a name for them – I’m talking about street punks. During the era I come from, we just called them punks. One British label released bands that have become the pillars of the streetpunk sound and aesthetic, and that label

via The Lineup The most intriguing true crime tales are those that continue to evolve, uncovering new evidence even after the person to blame has been in prison for decades. That is certainly what happened in the case of serial killer Rodney Alcala, also known as the “Dating Game Killer.” Alcala

There’s a thread that seems to run throughout nearly every genre of music—a desire to escape your hometown that runs as deep as the pride for the land that’s served as the flint of the artistic fire. As a breathing, scene-spanning beast, punk-influenced hip-hop duo $uicideboy$ is perhaps the most

All photos and text by Charles Nickles I was just trying to have some civil piss-off discourse with a friend, the other day, about all the idiots and infidels that populate our industry and she curbed that shit right quick. “CHARLESON,” she wrote “come to Sunnyvale for a show tomorrow