Nine Inch Nails – Not The Actual Events

I owe much of my love of music and the desire to blend organics and electronics together to Nine Inch Nails. So I should probably warn you that there will be many more reviews of their music, as they’ve taken it upon themselves to revisit much of their back catalogue. For two reasons, to remaster their less-than-polished releases (which I don’t understand, the raw brutality of the music is pretty key to their sound), and…

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Rick and Gailie – The Lost Album

Rick and Gailie have been staples of the local music scene in Peterborough for a good time now. I’ve had the pleasure of getting to know them ever so slightly through the day job, and they really are fantastic people, old school flower-power hippies from a time when it mattered. And this world could definitely do with some peace and love right now. For years they regularly played The Black Horse Pub on George Street,…

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Meshuggah – I

Math is at the core of pretty much everything we do in life. Ranging from the equations carried out within the human brain as synapses fire off neurons to different receptors which command your eyes to observe these words written on your screen and interpret them, to, well, other equations being conducted as the signals bounce from the satellites in space down to earth into you phone and are converted into streams of information which…

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High On Fire – Death Is This Communion

First notes hit like cannons. Fury Whip  starts out on full, fire fueled guitar crushing over the massive kicks pounding away through the complete assault that is the opening track. Welcome to the world of High On Fire, where everything is loud and big, all the time. The band came to existence in 1998, founded by guitarist and lead vocalist Matt Pike. Hailing from California, High On Fire takes much influence from the godfathers of…

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