Jason Schreurs

Misery Signals Absent Light Riding the high of their first self-released album, the added perspectives of side projects such as Solace and Burning Empires, and the induction of new members, Misery Signals seem hungry, if not overly ambitious, on their Indiegogo-financed fourth album, their first in five years. In the past, Misery Signals were dominated […]

My Heart To Fear Algorithm The full-length debut by My Heart To Fear picks up where their Lost Between Brilliance And Insanity EP left off, but thankfully drops some of the more cliché bits and adds some much-needed originality. With more room on a full album to stretch out and play on their strengths (song […]

I Is Another I Is Another EP Fans of Jonah Matranga and Ian Love’s previous work will immediately latch onto the debut EP by I Is Another. The combination of the powerful-voiced Matranga (Far, onelinedrawing, Gratitude) and the rollicking, shoegazey guitars of Love (Rival Schools, Cardia) is enough to send fans of melodic post-hardcore into […]

Boysetsfire While A Nation Sleeps… After a breakup lasting from 2007 to 2010, Boysetsfire are back with a new album, their first in nearly seven years, and it doesn’t disappoint. While A Nation Sleeps… is more of a staple Boysetsfire album than its predecessor, 2006’s The Misery Index: Notes From The Plague Years, which found […]

Implants From Chaos To Order Either there’s a full resurgence of mid-’90s melodic hardcore afoot or a bunch of 40-something dudes from all of those bands are getting serious hankerings for another try at the scissor-kick leap before their bodies won’t let them do it anymore. Implants are a ’90s SoCal punk supergroup of sorts, […]

Rotting Out The Wrong Way There’s a hilarious moment with 30 seconds left on the tune “No Clue,” by Los Angeles old-school hardcore band Rotting Out, where it quickly switches from mid-tempo crossover hardcore similar to early D.R.I. or M.O.D. into a dead ringer for the spazz section of Suicidal Tendencies’ “Institutionalized,” all punky, choppy […]

Foreign Tongues Glue EP How exactly does a relatively new band from Boston/New Hampshire turn out sounding like they could have shared a stage with Nirvana or Dinosaur Jr. during the heyday of grunge and alt-rock? That’s the question that might have to remain unanswered when listening to Foreign Tongues' new EP, Glue [released on […]

Authority Zero The Tipping Point From the starting gates of album opener “No Other Place,” it’s clear what we’re in store for on Authority Zero’s fifth full-length: sharply honed melodic punk rock. Vocalist Jason DeVore’s striking similarity to another melodic punk screamer, Good Riddance’s Russ Rankin, is a bit of a distraction at times (is […]

Intronaut Habitual Levitations Longtime fans of experimental Los Angeles prog-metallers Intronaut will immediately notice a downshift on Habitual Leviathans. Gone are any death metal trappings from their previous material, and in their place a more understated, developed sound that repeatedly builds and burns. Eight-minute opener “Killing Birds With Stones” sets the album on its polyrhythmic […]