Neck Deep can’t kick up the roots on new back-to-basics album

Despite spearheading the 2010s pop punk revival, Neck Deep fell flat with their 2020 effort, All Distortions Are Intentional. The record saw the band experiment with a relaxed, fuzzed-out sound coupled with a higher concept that tied together lyrical themes. What resulted sounded completely disparate to 2017’s The Peace and the Panic, prompting a resounding

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Jordan Peele’s ‘Nope’ Gives Sci-Fi Horror A New Classic

Expertly combining genres including horror, sci-fi, western, and even some occasional comedy, Jordan Peele’s third film, Nope, is an effortlessly thrilling commentary on spectacle, trauma and animal abuse. Spoilers ahead. Following intentionally-vague marketing, expectations for Peele’s follow-up to 2019’s Us were incredibly high—and rightfully so. Both the aforementioned predecessor and his directorial debut, Get Out

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Ghost Reach New Heights in New Album, ‘Impera’

If you’re a rock fan and you’ve somehow managed to avoid the band Ghost since their last record Prequelle hit stores in 2018, I congratulate you on your impressive aversion to anything remotely mainstream. The band have been dominating the rock charts with songs like “Rats,” “Square Hammer,” and “Dance Macabre.” It’s clear that Ghost’s new

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Sound Design as Music: How Mick Gordon Embodies the Modern Music Producer

In the modern artistic sphere, the fields of sound design and music creation increasingly overlap. The crafting of unique sounds, rather than using pre-sets or plugins, can be the difference between standing out or blending into the background of an oversaturated market. One composer who understands this is Mick Gordon. Gordon rose to fame for

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11 Underground Bands Keeping Classic Metal Alive in 2022

In the current age of streaming, it can be easy to get enamoured with metal music that sounds emphatically modern. Sometimes, though, it’s nice to take it back to where it all started. That is, with hard-hitting, no-nonsense metal reminiscent of the legendary records released in the 1980s. Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Helloween, Dio, and

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The Music of Skyrim: Why is it so Good?!

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is a game often hailed as one of the greatest of its generation. With its high replay ability, immersive detail, and a vibrant (for lack of a better word) modding scene, Skyrim manages to maintain an unprecedented level of relevancy in online gaming discourse—even over ten years removed from its initial

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