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  • The 9C Files: Black Site’s The Promised Land?

    The 9C Files: Black Site’s The Promised Land?

    From September 4, 2024 It’s always a thrill to discover a band that just blows you away with an album, putting them high on your radar priorities to track and follow whatever they do next. That was the case with Black Sites, a Chicago-based metal trio whose 2021 sophomore release Untrue took me…

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  • Consuming in 2025: My Favorite Music

    Consuming in 2025: My Favorite Music

    Usually I hold on this kind of thing until our annual “Dan and Chris ramble for hours about the music they love” podcast, but editing that particular bear is taking a little longer than usual, so since it’s February, we got the fresh new coat of paint on the site,…

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All the metals since 2016. Playlists, reviews, podcasts, and more lists than is healthy for any one person…

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Examining a life through the media we consume. In other words, I’m reviewing all of my physical music media in alphabetical order, one day at a time. Except when I don’t, as has been the case for the past few years. Still, we march onwards…

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