Articles by Dave Synyard

News Round Up!

PUBLISHED Feb 22, 2008

Here's your weekly News Round Up! The World's Greatest Record Collection Is Sold For Millions. Wait, maybe not. EMI Releases Art Bru...

Silverstein / Protest the Hero / Ill Scarlett / Devil Wears Prada

Kool Haus, Toronto ON February 8

PUBLISHED Feb 21, 2008

Over the years Silverstein had played an hour from their home of Burlington numerous times, but to see them headline at a sold out Kool Hau...

Farewell to Freeway

Definitions

PUBLISHED Feb 19, 2008

It’s easy to oversimplify artists on Victory: either you have something that’s a little more hardcore/metal, like Bury Your Dead, or the al...

Life Long Tragedy

Runaways

PUBLISHED Feb 19, 2008

Hardcore is best done as a style of music that has speed, hate and grit. Life Long Tragedy have all the elements of a great hardcore band b...

Once Nothing

First Came The Law

PUBLISHED Feb 19, 2008

I’m fairly lost on what exactly "blue-collar metal” means. Yes, Once Nothing are from Pittsburgh, PA but unless these proletariats work at...

Salt The Wound

Carnal Repercussions

PUBLISHED Feb 19, 2008

Cleveland, OH’s Salt The Wound have done something many bands still can’t: made a pretty damn close to perfect debut release. Carnal Reperc...

Sky Eats Airplane

Everything Perfect On The Wrong Day

PUBLISHED Feb 19, 2008

It’s not very often a metal/hardcore CD is a fun listen, but when you add a ton of eight-bit sampling to the mix, you can’t help but get a...

News Round Up!

PUBLISHED Feb 16, 2008

Here's your weekly News Round Up! My Dad VS Yours Fox Out Super Bowl Music Misuse. Final Fantasy’s Owen Pallett Turns Lawsuit Into Fest...