Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Feb 8, 2012, 3:20 am
I would think the purpose of sending out a blanket blast of promos is to get someone’s attention, get your album reviewed, and use that press to build up more excitement for your band.  So Terrordome, mission accomplished! I received a 5 song blast from Polish thrashers Terrordome, and it hearken...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Feb 8, 2012, 3:03 am
My producer gives me a countdown inside my earpiece.  “Three, two, one.  We’re live.” “Greetings fellow waveriders.  My name is Penfold.  Thank you for joining me this evening.  If you look back on my writings for The Ripple Effect you’ll discover that I enjoy telling a humorous, ente...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Feb 7, 2012, 4:20 am
Only one month into the year and I already have my #1 album of 2012. What's a heavy music fan to do? Enjoy it for the rest of my life, that's what. The first time I heard a riff-laden Iron Balls Of Steel, the full-length debut by LOINCLOTH, I was streaming it on the computer, and not too long after ...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Feb 6, 2012, 3:25 am
Baby Woodrose - Love Comes Down Any one who knows me, knows that one way to get me happy in the midst of a monster of a traffic jam is to drop some thing raw and garagey into the player, crank up the volume and watch me become one with the fuzz. That's exactly what Baby Woodrose does Love Comes down...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Feb 5, 2012, 3:03 pm
 Here's an interview conducted by fearless Ripple Scribe, Boogeyman, that originally ran on his own blog, Long Live Rock N Roll.  Pop over there for more insights from the Boogs. Being called Rock's "Come Back Bands of the Year" by Metal Odyssey, and having a string of great reviews from the likes...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Feb 5, 2012, 1:22 pm
Two of the most beloved albums in the Styx catalog are 1977’s The Grand Illusion and 1978’s Pieces Of Eight. Now, Eagle Rock Entertainment will release Styx: The Grand Illusion/Pieces Of Eight Live on DVD, Blu-Ray, and DVD/2CD on January 31. This show was recorded November 9, 2010 at the histo...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Feb 5, 2012, 4:13 am
  Coming off the heels of one of if not the best grindcore album of 2011, End Time; the men in Brutal Truth are at it again. This time giving us a small taste of what’s to come in 2012 with their digital EP, Walking Corpse 2112. This two song EP is brutal as fuck! It makes you yearn for more. Som...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Feb 4, 2012, 3:48 pm
 Child prodigies.  Most don’t measure up to Mozart.  Then, again, how many kids do you know were composing and performing before royalty at five years old?  Amadeus may have been the exceptional exception.  The ultimate musical genius of all musical geniuses. There have been others, especiall...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Feb 4, 2012, 3:10 am
Now normally I’m not a fan of writing reviews about singles, but lately several cool songs have come across my desk. Although the majority of them can be classified as alternative and indie music, there is a cool New York hard rock band worth mentioning. I hope you enjoy my random selection Fun - ...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Feb 3, 2012, 5:58 pm
Waveriders!  First of all, thank you all so much for popping in with us and checking out reviews on the "best music you're not listening to."  Our goal is for our writers to find music that truly excites them, then unleash themselves upon their keyboards to write missives and spread the word. We'v...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Feb 3, 2012, 3:26 pm
I don't normally like female fronted metal bands. I don't know why, but besides Joan Jett, and Lzzy Hale, it's just not my cup of tea. Shear has changed my opinion. Their vocalist, Alexa Leroux has a voice that made my jaw drop. She doesn't have a plain operetic voice that so many women in metal fal...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Feb 3, 2012, 4:32 am
What with their (as of this writing) upcoming album Blood For the Master, I revisited Goatwhore's previous LP, Carving Out the Eyes of God, playing it on tank-like, if outdated, speakers at jet-engine volume. At its best, in other words. "Apocalyptic Havoc" the lead single (see below) opens with all...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Feb 2, 2012, 3:09 am
    Easy Action Records in the UK have released some pretty incredible live recordings of The Stooges, Iggy Pop, MC5 and Sonic's Rendezvous Band the past few years and now they bring us this monumental live Hawkwind document. Leave No Star Unturned captures them in January 1972 headlining a show ...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Feb 1, 2012, 3:12 pm
Man, I love power metal.  It’s a sub-genre that really doesn’t seem to go over too well here in America, and I don’t know why.  I’ve heard people say its cheesy, but really, like we don’t have any other cheesy things here?  Or sometimes I’ll hear that it’s too “over the top”, bu...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Feb 1, 2012, 3:42 am
Regardless of where you live, if you walk the streets of your city/town/village with the sun up or the sun down you will inevitably find something interesting.  It might be an interesting sight.  It might be an interesting place.  In my case it was an interesting person that I discovered while wa...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Jan 31, 2012, 2:58 pm
Building upon a year that found Ripple Music garnering accolades across the board and album of the year releases by Grifter,Iron Claw, and Trucker Diablo, Ripple is about to invade the European festivals headlong and bring their hard-driving rock attack to the masses. Following their critically prai...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Jan 31, 2012, 3:01 am
Goosebumps cover my body every time I hear his voice. He is the only singer who has ever made me cry when I hear him sing. Arguably one of the greatest singers the world has ever known, very few fondly remember him today outside of certain music circles. I’m talking about Mario Lanza, one of the m...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Jan 30, 2012, 3:44 am
Man, sometimes you find the craziest things. OK, stay with me on this one.  I’d been on a tear recently, trying to get all my vinyl cataloged into a mobile database so I know what I have, what I don’t have, and hopefully stop buying so many doubles (unlikely). So there I was, somewhere in the "...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Jan 29, 2012, 4:28 am
TOAD - Rotten Tide A blistering set of short but very sweet heavy duty melodic tracks. Hard to put a label on this one but rest assured your ears will be happy. Shortly to be found supporting the mighty Graveyard, one to keep an eye on. Or an ear. Name your price @: http://takeoveranddestroy.bandcam...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Jan 29, 2012, 3:03 am
When I was a kid, growing up in a house with Cat Stevens, Neil Diamond, and Simon and Garfunkel, the first time I ever heard Kiss's "Detroit Rock City," it was a moment of musical epiphany. It was just so vicious, aggressive and mean. It changed the way I listened to music. I've had a few minor epip...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Jan 28, 2012, 3:18 pm
  Ah, eighties metal. Fun, fun stuff. Virgin Steele takes all that was good from the eighties metal pool and mixed it up to spit out a great record. They have screechy male vocals, indulgent guitar solos, and hard hitting songs. The styles fluctuate throughout the record, some sounding like Iron M...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Jan 28, 2012, 3:18 am
Mini albums are certainly interesting. The more frequently I use the term, the further I enjoy saying “mini album.” Lately albums are becoming more difficult to define, both in size and genre. Late Night Paraphernalia by Old Wives’ Tale fits perfectly into that category. Don’t be fooled by t...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Jan 27, 2012, 4:02 am
  Why is None So Vile, a 16-year-old release from Qubecois death metal outfit Cryptopsy, indispensible? I will elucidate this in that most classic and festive of forms, the Christmas death metal recipe: Ingredients: 1) Horrific and completely unintelligible harshed snarled bellowing from one Lord W...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Jan 26, 2012, 2:51 pm
Way back in the mists of time…the mid 90’s…the term stoner rock was only just starting to surface, in fact stoner rock itself was only just starting to make its presence felt. Kyuss laid the foundations for the desert rock sound, Monster Magnet gave rock and roll and acidic, vintage garage sou...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Jan 26, 2012, 3:53 am
I love getting weird stuff in the mail. And these 2 CD's that Racer sent me from Alone Records are pretty damn weird. I'd never heard of the label before but they've been around for 10 years and are based out of Spain. Their catalog ranges from experimental/psychedelic to more traditional rock and m...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Jan 25, 2012, 2:56 pm
I walked into the weekly wrap-up meeting with my chin lowered and a defeatist attitude. My boss, I was absolutely certain, was going to publicly browbeat me over my recent lack of production. Who could blame him? It had been three whole weeks since I had turned in my last writing assignment. Eve...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Jan 25, 2012, 4:12 am
So this is that djent music that all the kids are talking about, huh?  I have to admit, I like it better than I thought I would.  I like Meshuggah, the band that this sub-genre is named for, but any time you get a bunch of instrumental music going on there is always the possibility of band members...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Jan 24, 2012, 5:39 pm
THE DEFINITIVE DOCUMENTARY ON THE WORLD’S GREATEST ROCK BAND IS COMING TO DVD AND BLU-RAY ~On January 31~ To Be Released by Eagle Rock Entertainment through Eagle Vision. "This fantastic and moving two-parter tells the story of the finest live band in the history of rock. There's archive footage o...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Jan 24, 2012, 1:55 pm
Yeah, I may be getting old but I can still rock out the hell out. I certainly don't feel 42 most of the time and I still get excited when a band I love comes to town. I saw that doom masters YOB were gonna be here before hitting the road with Tool, and knew it was maybe my only good chance to see th...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Jan 24, 2012, 3:37 am
"Yeah...right," I remember muttering as I read their press kit. I may have giggled a little bit, too. Ronnie James Dio (rest in peace) was one of the greatest vocalists of all-time, in my opinion, so when Sweden's Astral Doors mentioned, "the sound’s unmistakable kinship to Dio-fronted Rainbow and...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Jan 23, 2012, 3:31 am
Raining.  Wind whipping the scattered leaves into a violent frenzy of attacking dead foliage.  Lightning cracks the sky. Time to get some doom on. Leather Nun (America) - All Your Kin Of all the doom bands that have plodded into the Ripple office over the last four years, Leather Nun (America) ha...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Jan 22, 2012, 3:50 am
There are a lot of bands out there who only get one perfect album in their career. Thrice is not one of those bands. Like a fine wine , Thrice seems to get better with age. It seems they get better every album and constantly offering up something musically refreshing. They are not one to stick to th...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Jan 22, 2012, 3:44 am
December in Pennsylvania is a fickle and confused month.  Mother Nature goes bi-polar all over our asses and people's behavior starts to mimic.  Some days the temperature nears 60 degrees, and on those days people feel as though they've been blessed by God.  You step outside on your front porch a...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Jan 21, 2012, 3:49 pm
“I’ll take Metal Bands for one thousand,”  The card slipped away and there it was, “Daily Double!”  Alex Trebek said, “You have $5,100,  Frank, how much do you wish to wager?” I thought for a moment.  I was behind the leading contestant by $4,800 and time was running out.  “Hell...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Jan 21, 2012, 3:25 pm
  It’s been hailed as one of the best albums of 2011. Not by one or two, but by several of the biggest hard rock websites in the world. The Soda Shop. The Obelisk. The Ripple Effect. Heavy Planet. Chybucca Sounds. Sonic Abuse and more. Captain Zen Beyond has called them "the best classic rock b...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Jan 21, 2012, 3:06 am
Are you green with envy? After all, there’s nothing wrong with being green. Muppet Mania is back! Finally, The Muppets have reemerged in the limelight thanks largely due to Jason Segel and his memorable sad rendition of “The Muppets Show Theme Song” in Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Due to the suc...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Jan 20, 2012, 3:30 pm
  Released on jazz label Prestige's "Swingville" imprint (allegedly even more composed of hastily-assembled blowing sessions, which were then scalped to junkie jazz musicians looking to make a quick buck, than were Prestige's other releases), Night Hawk is a blowing session between --duh-- the Hawk...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Jan 20, 2012, 3:20 am
 I play tenor sax, and I like to study the whole sound of the instrument, no matter how seemingly abstruse. Were you studying tenor sax at Berklee or some shit, Teddy Edwards would only barely show up in the 400 or above sections... He's a footnote. Don't get me wrong. He's very cool. I dig him. I ...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Jan 19, 2012, 2:37 pm
Ice Dragon’s debut The Burl, The Earth, The Aether has been compared by many to Black Sabbath’s self titled and Electric Wizard’s Dopethrone, and it’s really not hard to see why. Taking many cues from the titans that preceded them, Ice Dragon weaves a solid, dynamic album that is dismally bl...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Jan 19, 2012, 3:26 am
Normally I'd review a 7" single with a few others but given that it's a new solo project from Stone Axe/Mos Generator main man Tony Reed and released on JJ Koczan's label Maple Forum it warrants a few more words than normal. Also, I haven't bought any other 7" singles lately. I came close to picking...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Jan 18, 2012, 11:13 am
Beer Corpse -  Keg Nuts I know what you’re thinking.  You read that band name and thought ‘I’m one hundred percent positive these guys play ultra-melodic power ballads’.  Well I hate to break it to you waveriders, but Beer Corpse is actually a grindcore outfit.  I know?!  I was shocked ...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Nov 1, 2011, 2:58 pm
Entering the studio in the spring to record their highly anticipated follow up to last year’s Magic Isn’t Real.Exploding In Sound Records is beyond thrilled to announce that the first band signed to the freshly launched label is none other than Boston favorites PILE.  The label will release the...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Nov 1, 2011, 3:40 am
 My favorite Beatle was John Lennon.  To be sure, John was a tortured soul.  His soft side seen in such songs as “Imagine,” “Beautiful Boy,” “Mind Games,” “Gimme Some Truth” “Steel and Glass” and their ilk represent a contemplative Lennon quite at odds with the combative John ...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Oct 31, 2011, 3:15 am
... vocals, "Better Yet," rambles out like some old Pure Praire League shuffle, and "Allon Camerado," brings in some darker guitar tone muscle to the ... No fan of jangle pop will be disappointed here. Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Liverpool Fellow Ripple scribe Woody, nearly filleted me and served...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Oct 30, 2011, 3:13 pm
 Oct. 28 -- Rammstein's long-awaited retrospective release, Made In Germany 1995 - 2011, will be available on Dec. 6 through Universal Germany's marketing and distribution deal in the US with Vagrant Records. Made In Germany 1995 - 2011 will be available in three different editions: * Standard Edit...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Oct 30, 2011, 3:18 am
As I mentioned last week in my Nick 13 write up, I was previlaged to see a man by the name of Brett Detar open up the show I saw. Some of you may remember Brett Detar for being in some of the coolest Indy and Hardcore bands of the 90's and early 2000's. Most notably as the lead singer for the band T...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Oct 29, 2011, 3:59 am
Given the metal pedigree of the members of Iron Lamb, the surprise of this release is that it’s not really metal.  When you have members, current and former, of bands such as General Surgery, Scurvy, Repugnant, Dismember, Insision, Bombstrike, Tyrant, and Dellamorte, I expected to be smacked upsi...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Oct 28, 2011, 3:47 am
  This is one of the blurbs that came with the advance of Skeletonwitch's Forever Abomination: Skeletonwitch has been called every name in the fucking book: death metal, black metal, thrash metal, speed metal, heavy metal, epic viking blackened thrash ‘n’ roll, and so on. It seems the only...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Oct 27, 2011, 3:19 am
You know you’re old school or just plain old if you’re into this album. I’ve known and loved it for years but recently picked up the excellent LP reissue on England’s Back On Black label and it’s been on non-stop rotation on my turntable. Talk about classic! Everything about this 1976 albu...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Oct 26, 2011, 3:08 am
It’s a rare occurrence for me to get excited about a hip-hop record. Over the past few years (decades?), hip-hop has come across more about the glorification of excesses than anything of substance, of fresh ideas, of empowering messages. The days of old, when Chuck D would wax poetic about the inj...
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