The Mezunian

Yes, this is a real album. It is, in fact, their 1st e’er album, an EP released 6 whole years before their big LP debut, Infest. Whereas that album was clearly inspired by Rage Against the Machine, this album sounds like it’s aping, o’ all bands, Primus, with that twangy slap bass. As a young […]

¿Would you believe me if I said that St. Anger was the 1st Metallica album I’d e’er listened to. I liked it @ the time, — & still do — but I do remember thinking to myself while listening to it, { ¿This is the legendary Metallica? }. It wouldn’t be till I heard “Fade […]

If I had to describe Disturbed’s 4th studio album, Indestructible, in a short sentence, I would call it, “A mo’ mainstream-friendly The Sickness that aged better”: we still have the spoopy sound & subject matter & theatrics, but with mo’ professional musicianship & production, fewer awkward elements like the infamous parental abuse crashout during the […]

Nu-metal has many “1-hit wonders” who had way mo’ than 1 hit, but now the normies only know 1 particularly memeworthy song from them: Disturbed with “Down with the Sickness”; Papa Roach with “Last Resort”; System of a Down with “Chop Suey” ( despite System of a Down having many, many surreal songs that would […]

Since I was young child I have been playing the Super Nintendo SimCity off & on, e’ery time trying to reach 500,000 population & reaching the coveted “Megatropolis” city level, & then 600,000 to get the coveted Mario statue building gift, & e’ery time filling up my city long before being able to e’en get […]

When most people, including myself before finding this album, think o’ the band Incubus, they think o’ the soft rock band with early-2000s serene songs like “Drive” & “Wish You Were Here”, a strange contrast to the origin o’ their namesake, a fairy tale daemon that tries to rape women in their sleep. So I […]

This is a band that seemed to suddenly pop up during the tailend o’ the era o’ nu-metal in 2008 with their song “Bump” & later their only single “Bartender ( Sittin’ At a Bar )” playing on my local rock station a few times… & then they disappeared. I mean, they continued to release […]

Puddle of Mudd is the difference ’tween laymen who think Nickelback is the worst rock band e’er & those o’ us who are truly deep into the grime & know that there are far worse bands. I had to write ’bout their infamously atrocious “She Hates Me” when reviewing that anthology o’ so-called divorced dad […]