Posts by Eric Saeger

On first listen it’s completely devoid of hooks, and a second run-through would have been pure drudgery, really.

Finally an alt record that takes all the Franz Ferdinand Mini-Mes by the neck, rubs their faces in the lackluster heaps of discordant doodie they

Pentagram-festooned albums have been pouring out of the sky ever since Venom singer Cronos proved to the world that even a knob who pretends to worship Satan can get studio time (and maybe more, dude, nudge nudge nudge) with a painfully hot babe like Kate Bush.

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Kids today, man. They

With all the same-sounding major-label

A look at some of the newest in underground releases

Buzzing with a Protestant work ethic that would put Donald Trump to shame, Sevendust took their advance money from Universal and have been spending it as if it had come from a political organization, busying themselves at a campaign trail of odd but strategic guest appearances at motorcycle races, special radio meet-and-greets and anything else short of toastmastering a Weight Watchers meeting.

A look at some of the newest in underground releases

The idea of passing up the simple but commercially effective strategy of retrofitting 80s New Wave for mass consumption by the pierced-face audiences of today may be a tough thing for goal-oriented techno bands to consider, but Backandtotheleft appears content to keep the musical company of such EBM purists as Cesium 137 and Angels+Agony.

Try as it might, Blue Eyed in the Red Room ends up as a collection of near-miss electro instrumentals which could have advanced past golf-cart-cruise-music status with just a little improvement on the arrangements. It

Up to bat is Avenged Sevenfold

For nearly twenty years, Skinny Puppy has been the Blue Man Group from hell. Formed in the mid-80s by three Vancouver art students, this elite techno band helped pave the way for the entire industrial sound, with heavy grooves and lyrics that condemn animal experimentation, political corruption and basically anything else that

A look at some of the newest in underground releases

Arguably the most deranged techno band making records today, Combichrist is the side project of Icon of Coil

Given VNV Nation

this may well be the Zeppelin III of indie/CMJ-rock.

Random stabbings and artless critiques of ten new records you haven't heard about.