It’s a good thing metalcore isn’t the metal genre no one wants to admit they like anymore. Metalheads are okay with the subgenre because so few popular bands play it anymore; now deathcore is the object of derision. This is good news for Iconocaust, whose new four-song EP has metalcore…
Denver’s Catheter recently issued its first full-length album in seven years, Southwest Doom Violence, the follow-up to 2005’s Dimension 303. The band’s latest effort — bolstering an extensive library of EPs and split releases — offers a healthy mix of grind, doom, sludge and even crust punk, building on the…
Killing Kings are getting back together for the reunion show the Denver hardcore scene has always wanted but never expected. Three and half years after their last show, the band is reuniting to raise money for a friend who was hurt and struggling to pay medical bills without health insurance…
Enemy Reign guitarist Nick Guenther will spend the next six weeks in a leg brace after an on-stage accident at Vaporfest last weekend, and it’s partially my fault. The animated Guenther was rocking out at the Summit Music Hall when suddenly, three quarters of the way through Enemy Reign’s first…
Metal is often stereoptyped as being a violent genre. And while violence is a indeed a common theme in the lyrics of many bands — and granted, even the concept of mosh pits is violent — when you combine that with the violence we’re all exposed to in movies, TV…
