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Warm up your CD players or get those Ipods ready folks.  If metal music is your thing, then Djizoes: (Pronounced “Jesus” and yes the colon is part of the name…) should be added to your list.  Formed in 2002 in wonderful Geneva, Djizoes: has managed to get immediate attention for ...

The title of Pillbox Remedy’s album,  Is this what we wanted?  might just be a question from the band's sole creator Carlos Paras, to his fans and people who have written about his music.  It seems to me that the title itself is the question -- 'Is this what you wanted?'  Maybe I'm wrong, ...

Ready to make a splash with the world wide release of their second album, Dressed Up As Life, Sick Puppies of Sydney, Australia have kept their vicious sound alive since their release of, “Headphone Injuries EP,” last summer.  Fans of Shimon, Emma, and Chris should get ready for a holiday ...

Thieves! Thieves I Say! I realize these are bold accusations to say about Montreal’s Sweet Distortion. But one listen to Life Kills and maybe the judge would actually buy my case. But let’s play nice for now and call them musical borrowers.Basically, Sweet Distortion's latest album isn’t anything new from ...