Articles by Bradley Zorgdrager

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  Funeral for a Friend

  Conduit

  PUBLISHED Feb 5, 2013

  Post-hardcore, while meant to be a liberating term entailing the transcending of hardcore's genre boundaries, has become the opposite. Band...

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  Relentless

  Turn the Curse

  PUBLISHED Jan 29, 2013

  Hardcore bands' monikers have never been as important to their holders as their metal kin. With no need to evoke an evil or brutal aestheti...

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  Ancient Shores/Cynarae

  Split

  PUBLISHED Jan 22, 2013

  Chris Colohan voiced his support of the Ancient Shores/Cynarae split LP literally. The Burning Love frontman showed up for some guest yells...

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  God's America

  Our Bones Will Bleach in the Sun

  PUBLISHED Jan 22, 2013

  "God's America" is meant to be said with tongue planted firmly in cheek, at least in the case of this powerviolence group from Los Angeles,...

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  Continents

  Idle Hands

  PUBLISHED Jan 22, 2013

  Hardcore is a hype word these days, with any band containing a marginal influence claiming allegiance. But don't let Victory Records' marke...

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  Thy Art is Murder

  Hate

  PUBLISHED Jan 22, 2013

  Thy Art Is Murder could have been deathcore's Dragonforce — a band so steeped in (relative) technicality they run the risk of being u...

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  The Faceless

  Autotheism

  PUBLISHED Jan 8, 2013

  The Faceless have never been just another deathcore band. Their musicianship alone has set them apart, as have their aspirations for more t...

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  Losin' It

  No Apology

  PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2013

  The referent "it" in the phrase "losin' it" is entirely ambiguous, meaning that that to which it refers is never defined. Given the aggress...