Music fans and casual readers, ladies and gentlemen, I, the Editor-In-Chief for Rockfreaks.net, present you a comprehensive guide to 2009, the most detailed all-around guide to everything important that happened in the rock and metal music scenes in the past year. How many other sites are able to walk you through more or less every single genre relevant to rock music, starting from indie rock and pop punk and ending in hardcore and extreme metal, and do so with a tongue-in-cheek attitude (as often as we can) and in a manner that's pretty damn close to as user-friendly as it gets? That's right,...
Brandon Bolmer of Yesterdays Rising is apparently going to be the new lead singer in Chiodos. Whether or not this means he's leaving Yesterdays Rising is currently unknown.
A Day To Remember, Dropkick Murphys, Invasionen and Jello Biafra and The Guantanamo School of Medicine have also been added to West Coast Riot alongside Bad Religion and Rise Against.
And so it is, at last, the most comprehensive review of 2009 in music was finally posted this week in all it's 13,000 word glory! Please may I direct you to either the link below here or that at the top of the page to check it out if you have not already as it has been designed to cover at least one area of rock & metal to appease EVERYONE (I can attest for that). If nothing there interests you I feel you would be better off checking out some pop rag, like this one perhaps.
The site's new design is coming along nicely, with the staff investing a significant amount of time to bring all the old articles up to scratch. No definitive switch-over date set yet, but keep your eyes peeled for further news on this soon hopefully. Otherwise, check out this week's news in the archive and don't forget to sign up with our facebook page here too.
So basically BL and I were just discussing the differences in Sound The Alarm's old and new material (the former was great, the latter was terrible), when suddenly he finds this on youtube:
In case you're not seeing the connection, "Suffocated" was the awesome lead single from Sound The Alarm's first EP, which was then turned into poppy monstrosity on the debut LP. This woman was apparently Michael Jackson's touring guitarist, and not only does she shred and sing well, she also covers songs by largely unknown emo bands - How about that boys?
Given that conversations in The Rock last night revealed a stunning amount of ignorance towards what's going on in the venue on Wednesday, I think it's time to inform Copenhagen's scenesters of the three great bands scheduled to rock that place in only three mere days. Check these guys out!
Yashin (for the fans of: Funeral For A Friend, The Blackout, Trusted Few) Oniontree (for the fans of: Rise Against/Autopilot Off + keyboards?) A Road To Damascus (for the fans of: erhhh, emo-pop-core? Some God damn band that I just can't put my finger on? Suggestions in comments?)
Anyway, listen to these bands, and get stoked for this show, mkay?
I must admit, it took a long while for me to get accustomed to the next step in the Greeley Estates evolutionary trend, because as we know, the band h...
Apparently the members of Philadelphia, US based Stygian formed their band as diehard Metallica fans, and strove to learn every song from "Creeping De...
Hoping to reinstate the mid 90s hardcore sound otherwise known as "Holy Terror"-hardcore (dubbed after the record label housing bands like Integrity e...
Cyprus isn't exactly known as a hotbed of heavy metal activity, but 2004 saw the creation of Winter's Verge, a power metal band spawned from, as the b...
Mammoth Grinder. Sometimes the name of the band says it all, as by the end of their bleakly themed new album "Extinction Of Humanity", you'll probably...
Fucked Up passed underneath my radar all the way until their brilliant performance at Roskilde Festival last year. The universal critical acclaim this...
Normally metalcore/hardcore hybrids tend to ease you into their record with an introduction of some sort, but not Rise And Fall. These guys explode on...
I could've sworn Wiseheimer are from California because of their tight 90s skatepunk sound that typically populates that area, but lo and behold, they...
