Our Top 20 of 2018 Happy New Year freaks! Looks like we are going to kick off 2019 by being the last people to share our favorites of 2018. It was an interesting year, and we didn’t have any clear idea of what the list would look like, so you’ll probably be as surprised as […]

Stocking Stuffers Before we get to the main event next week, we have the appetizer portion of our year-end festivities.  As usual, we discuss things like our favorite EPs, most improved bands, and worst albums, amongst more goodies.  Also as usual, Mike joins us to discuss our favorite album art, which you will find below […]

Fiftieth Niftiest Our 50th show of the year sees the end of our Bands Across America segment.  It was a hell of a trip, discovering a lot of cool bands that we may have otherwise never heard! We hope you all had fun with it too, and found a few bands that you’ll keep going […]

The Great Dividers Our scores may have come close to each other, but ours views of 2/3 of these albums are a bit different from each other…which is something that seems to be happening a little more now. (It also makes for a good cop-out on the episode title.) SideShow.375 Unearth – Extinction(s) (Century Media) […]

Ride the Dial This week’s albums were a little better than the last two!  Are we finally on an upswing??  Too soon to tell, but stay tuned to find out.  In the meantime, let us know what you think of these albums! SideShow.374 Architects – Holy Hell (Epitaph) Cult Leader – A Patient Man (Deathwish) […]

The Pun is Strong with These Two Unfortunately continuing where left off with our last review – spoiler alter – we have a few more albums we didn’t like.  Wanna fight us on them?  Then please, by all means, do it!  Leave comments on the site or social media! SideShow.373 Witherfall – A Prelude to […]

Thankful for Death Metal Thanksgiving is this week in the USA, so we are giving thanks for all Metal.  This show in particular focuses of a few forms of Death Metal, including our live review, so we are extra thankful for the brutality it brings. SideShow.372 Hate Eternal – Upon Desolate Sands (Season of Mist) Nothgard – Malady […]

Late Contenders We are quickly approaching the end of the year, which means we have to start thinking about year-end best of lists and things like that.  However, a couple of albums this week prove you can’t start too early. SideShow.371 The Ocean Collective – Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic (Metal Blade) Arsis – Visitant (Nuclear Blast) […]

And Death Followed Seems fitting that the episode we recorded the week of Halloween was packed with some savage Death Metal.  We’ll pretend we meant to do that… SideShow.370 Gorod – Aethra (Overpowered) Bloodbath – The Arrow of Satan is Drawn (Peaceville) Cryptopsy – The Book of Suffering – Tome II   Wyoming Casket Huffer […]

Musical Reuben  We have reviewed all of these bands before on this show…a few times each, actually.  Despite that, two of the albums reviewed this week took us by surprise, for different reasons.  The third was good, but we also expected it to be good. So get listening to see how that all shakes out. […]