Aside from Queensryche and Rage Against the Machine, there aren't many politically conscious metal bands left nowadays, but Course of Empire may be the leaders of a resurgence. Their latest release, Telepathic Last Words, is a throwback of sorts to past Queensryche classics like Operation Mindcrime and Empire, yet C.O.E. updates the approach and sound (samples, Middle Eastern melodies, etc.). Almost all of the album's tracks have a specific lyrical message, such as {&"Automatic Writ...   [ read more ]

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THIS ITEM IS A PRE-ORDER. WE EXPECT IT TO SHIP ON OR BEFORE THE MARCH 30TH RELEASE DATE. Limited to 700 copies! South Florida's Floor were around for roughly ten years and recorded well over a dozen times during their on-and-off existence. Nearly 100 tracks are the result of a decade of persistence amid overall under-appreciation, and only in the wake of their demise did the underground finally take note. Their huge body of work yielded only a few officially released records, and most of what the band ...   [ read more ]

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Kings of the Island Empire is yet another Sammy release that reveals far too much of an uninspired Pavement fascination -- the 4 tracks on this EP might not be quite as derivative as Debut Album, but that's only because the band winds up falling back on conventional and rather banal indierock moves much of the time. It sounds fine, of course -- and as of 1994, Pavement imitation wasn't quite as horrible of a thing as it was later on in Sammy's career -- but fans of this sort of sloppy rock would be far bet...   [ read more ]

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