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Album Reviews, Crossover Thrash, Manifest Decimation, Power Trip, Southern Lord Recordings, Streaming Songs
Power Trip are a five piece crossover thrash band based out of Dallas, TX. With a strong hold on the hardcore community and an odd silence within their other relevant circles, my initial introduction as a neophyte hardcore listener to the Texas group was anomalous. Already awash in a sea of other similar groups from my own beginnings as a metalhead, their debut EP Armageddon Blues did little for me and not until their Lockin’ Out self-titled EP did I begin to bear a glimpse into the validity of the hype behind the group. Manifest Decimation clamps a radioactively charged and venomous grip around that gripe. As a denominational play on the 19th century imperialistic ideal of “manifest destiny”, Power Trip’s debut full length Manifest Destiny lays not a claim to total conquest for one bloodline, but a deterministic blood prophecy of planetary destruction by riff and simply put, it’s one of the best thrash records I’ve heard in a long time. Continue reading »
By: Bryan Batiste
I have never been into Bleed From Within. I honestly don’t think I’ve ever really listened to the band before I got a promo for their latest album Uprising. What I initially thought I had got my hands on was a corny deathcore album that I was going to toss to the side. Instead of just throwing it out however, I listened to it and, after some deliberation, I have come to love it. As far as metalcore goes in 2013, good bands are few and very, very far between. As it turns out, Bleed From Within are one of those good ones. 
I have been somewhat aware of the existence of Imagine Dragons for a while now, seeing them played on various Pandora Radio stations, but it wasn’t until I started hearing their new song “Radioactive” played on commercials and television shows that I finally gave them a proper listen. I have been listening to their debut studio album Night Visions and, although it’s not metal whatsoever, I wanna tell you what I think about it. 
Okay, folks. By this point in the game, I don’t need to tell you that I am a huge fan of cover songs and all kinds of music. For nearly three years I have been telling you this and today my love of cover songs, pop-punk and Ramones all come together. I have loved Ramones for ages now. They were my first punk band, so I hold them very high on my scale, so when bands cover Ramones songs, I can be very, very picky. Usually those covers range from meh to not bad, excluding a few good covers. And then we get to New Found Glory. 
When you throw eighty-three tracks from nine different bands on a single CD, you immediately have my attention. I am a huge fan of grindcore, as you all should know by now, and my good friend Andy, of Captain Three Leg, has sent me a spectacular nine-band split titled Incident At Ape Canyon and never before have I sat down with something this huge to review. I figured it would take me a while, so I sat down with at my computer with a juice and my electric cigarette, determined to push through this wall of vicious grindcore. I know a few of the bands on this album, but there are a lot that I don’t know. I look forward to getting schooled on this one. 
When Noisem exploded onto the scene this year (as Necropsy), I knew that they would be the band to watch in 2013. The band released their first single last month and it took me to a new place. The band has found a home on A389 Records and it’s easy to see why, their aggressive take to music is one that is not to be taken lightly. Their vicious thrash attack is something that I could only dream of. 
